Flying Dog Garde Dog Bière de Garde

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Bière de Garde
Frederick, Maryland USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Slow upward carbonation feeds a lacy head atop hay hay colored body. Pleasantly piquant crisp fresh grasp aroma with a haze of phenols, most notably clove. Crisp light-medium body, again demonstrating some grassiness, clove and a bit of dough. Simple and clear in direction.

Pours a cloudy orange body with a big, fluffy white head. Bananas, yeast, bubblegum, and a slightly sour finish.

Lactose like quality with a very defined yeast character and some plum like fruits but not much more.

A bit sour and fruity with malty caramel underneath. Punchy finish, not very bitter at all. An interesting beer.

On tap at RFD’s in DC. Hazy gold pour. Aroma is musty straw, yeast and banana. Tastes are spicey yeast, sweet malts, caramel and bread. Dry-ish finish w/ lively carbonation. Ok.

(Bottle) Pours golden to light amber. The aroma holds dry bread, mild grassy/herbal hops, light band-aid phenols, spices (reminds me a bit of rye) and an unpleasant corn-like sweetness. The flavour is near medium sweet and light bitter with tones of herbs, syrup, honey, phenols, grain (wheat and rye?) and bread. The mouthfeel is too clean and syrupy with a medium carbonation. Herbs, bread and corn linger in the finish. Near medium bodied.

Nice hazy amber beer, small white head. Taste is sweet, bit of hay. Not a lot a carbonation, medium body. Like it, but as it is my first beer of this style, nothing to compare it to.

Pours straw colored with a white head. Tastes like some wheat beer with a yeasty note to it. Not my type of beer.