How to Use saison in a Sentence
saison
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So what makes a saison such a good spring beer?
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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And few types of beer fit that notion better than the humble saison.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Among their first offerings was a pineapple saison, a cedar IPA and a red porter.
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Keith Pandolfi,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
22 Dec. 2025
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The earliest mention of saison is from 1823 in Liège.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Take the saison, a popular Belgian-French farmhouse style.
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Peter Rowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
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Its ethos centers around Belgian styles, such as the saison, which leverage yeast to develop fruity esters and flavors.
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Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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While there are specific guidelines that beer judges use to evaluate saisons, those are a more modern convenience, which the brewers who first made these beers would laugh at.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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According to lore, the first saisons originated in rural Wallonia and were named for the saisonniers, their term for seasonal farm workers hired during busy times.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Proving technically complex beers such as saisons and black IPAs could remain fresh inside aluminum set the trend for other craft brewers to adopt cans as a packaging.
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Mario Cortez,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 Sep. 2025
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That also would explain why so many early examples were described as very different in character and taste as the name saison wasn’t describing a specific flavor profile but a brewing procedure of timing and aging.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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For lighter beers, great choices are a Belgian witbier, whose signature orange peel and coriander pull out a salad’s nuances, or a saison or farmhouse ale, especially one that exhibits notes of pepper from the yeast used in brewing.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
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They’re joined, of course, by dark beers, porters, stouts, doppelbocks, and others that have remained impenetrably opaque, plus several styles of beer that are usually unfiltered, such as kellerbiers, gose, Belgian wits, saisons, and others.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Luckily for beer lovers, Don and Wendy Feinberg, who were beer importers specializing in smaller breweries, visited Brasserie Dupont around 1980 and fell in love with its saison.
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Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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