 VeloVampire (375), Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mar 18, 2008
330 ml bottle - pours clear pale gold with a medium withe head that my tulip glass hold nicely. Leaves good amount of sticky lacing on the sides of the glass. Aroma verry grassy and grainy, along with some white wine, apricot, and a certain heathery mustiness that I can’t quite place, but is very enticing. Flavour is quite sweet, with light honey tones and, as thers have noted, a notable herbal quality. The beer has an excellent mouthfeel, light and perfectly carbonated (which is to say, not too much, not too little) and finishes very crisp and dry. I haven’t had any bieres de garde before, but I look forward to trying more, perhaps better examples of the style.
GRM (792), Aylmer, Quebec, Canada
Jul 17, 2008 Brown bottle, 330 ml, best before 14/12/2008, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on July 17 2008; eye: golden, extra clear, slight effervescence, white head that falls rapidly and becomes a tiny ring, a bit of lacing; nose: light grain, light malt, light perfume; mouth: foamy, grain, caramel, light malt, light floral, finale in caramel with a hing of perfume, mildly sweet, medium-thin body, average carbonation; overall: so?
FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 330 ml, meilleure avant 14/12/2008, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 17 juillet 2008; œil : dorée, extra claire, très légère effervescence, mousse blanche qui tombe rapidement et devient un petit anneau, un peu de dentelle; nez : léger grain, léger malt, léger parfum; bouche : mousseuse, grain, caramel, léger malt, léger floral, finale en caramel avec une pointe de parfum, moyennement sucrée, corps moyen-léger, carbonatation moyenne; en résumé : bof!
Lubiere (3146), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jun 13, 2008 A golden ale with a thin lacing white head. Aroma is perfumed malt, with lime notes, almost like Pledge. In mouth, a crisp mineral malt with light residual sweetness, light boiled corn, again the sickly perfume notes. A bit cloying. Bottle from LCBO, Spring 2008. Tasted June 13, 2008.
DerWeg (372), Tronna, Ontario, Canada
Jun 9, 2008 Bottle LCBO. Wow I’m rating right after my beer hero LOL. A very light and simple BDG - has light session ale characteristics and some fruit, perhaps suggesting hint pear, Sweet, pleasant and undemanding - though unoffensive I did not feel like finishing it.
Oakes (6793), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
May 27, 2008 Hazy dark straw. Warm, malty, bready nose with a light herbal hop accent. Very sweet, sugary character with limey overtones and bready undertones. Finishes somewhat thick, quite thick and simple.
pintbypint (877), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
May 26, 2008 330ml brown bottle. Golden colour, head is off white and quite creamy. Good lace left behind. Grassy aroma, some lemon notes with lager like malt present. Sweetish malt is upfront, then lemon peel hop notes appear, some grain notes as well. Ends dry with grass. Body is light with a creamy mouthfeel. Refreshing.
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