La Sirène Saison

Great bottle and label.

I was quite surprised to see it was Australian actually - no disrespect to domestic producers, but this is a quite different approach to any other I have seen. Perhaps it's a good thing to help raise beer in the public consciousness to its rightful artsy state - but the beer will need to deliver too of course.

This is quite strongly carbonated and fizzes dramatically despite a sedate upbringing and weeks in the fridge. The nose is predominately lemon citrus and backing spice, not much funky yeast character as such.

Taste-wise it feels a bit faint on the whole, nice farmhouse bite first up, but a little watery, and lacking real funk that would push it closer to greatness. I feel like this is pretty smashable quaffing or session-wise as it finishes quite dry, but there's other beers that do that and they may give you a bit more delight along the way too.

Good try, not quite there yet. 5.5