Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant-Saison Dupont

After Bruges, we made our way to Ghent and this beer bar with a bit too long of a name. Despite the name, it was an excellent place to get a beer with a pages long beer book and riverfront view of the historic part of the city, making it a great spot after a long day of walking.

Saison Dupont pours a hazy pale gold with a voluminous rocky white head. It had a slightly funky barnyard yeast aroma. Additionally, it smelled slightly white grapey and had some pilsner malt grainy malt character too. This effervescent beer has a nice soft malt character mixed with a bit of funk on the aftertaste. The best way to describe this beer is as being almost like champagne because of the carbonation, mouthfeel, and grapey aromas. This was a very enjoyable beer, and I think this one would go especially well with foods like pizza.

Ghent was an interesting city, but there is not much to do there. It is the kind of place where you can spend a couple hours like we did, but not an entire day. It has pretty architecture similar to Bruges as well as an imposing castle called the Gravensteen. On top of that we checked out the local belfry, featuring a dragon on top and sampled some local cone shaped gummy fruit candies.