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The Monk's Dispatch

No. 7 · June · Saison season

"Brothers and sisters, June arrives with warmth and thirst, and there is no finer companion to the season than the saison, the dry, peppery farmhouse ale once brewed to refresh the harvest hands of Wallonia..."

In this issue
  • Beer of the month: Saison Dupont, the benchmark of the style
  • Spotlight: The saison heartland of Hainaut
  • Ask the Monk: what is a saison, really?
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