Lost Abbey Avant Garde Ale

750 ml. bottle. Solidly and deeply golden, with a light but coarse foam collar. Nose of distilled grape beverages and walnut, plus a little windex. Superb palate, somewhat creamy, honeyed undertones float a very tasty and cutting melange of garden spice and quenching hoppy acidity. Improves as it warms and breathes. Probably my fave of the 3 Lost Abbey/Port beers I’ve tried in the last couple of days...

750ml Bottle. Gentle garden and salted toast aroma. Nibbles of oat sugars and calm white tea. Sweet, lightly spiced and bready. Pours a 50% opaque deeply hued golden straw, with a sliding slick of beautifully conditioned head above. Flavor is a lightly honeyed bread, with dappling bits of farmyard grasses, herbal flourishes, and toothy spice. Mostly mild, soft, and wheaty. Not overly expressive, sharp or nuanced. But, what is there is wonderfully dry, clean, and enjoyable. Signature minerals climb through a bough of spruce. It’s hard to say anything bad about this beer, but it’s also difficult to say anything great about. A dutifully well reproduced Biere de Garde.

Upon its departure from the 750ml cork and caged bottle it forms a nice crown of white over the golden amber body, with the resultant lace a thin covering upon the glass. The nose has a peach like aroma, backed by the malt, crisp and clean to the senses. Start is sweet; the malt adds nice bread like taste, with the top middling. Finish has a delectable hop presence with the acidity unobjectionable, nice and dry, a fine drinking beer.

Courtesy BeanDip @ Tampa RB Gathering. Light copper, a little more yellow than orange. Thin layer of white head. Caramel aroma with light spice in the background. Light spicy character to start, but a lot of sweetness is there for a bier de garde.

On tap at Port Brewing San Marcos. Pours a hazy yellow with white head. Very belgian in aroma and taste...spicy! Not a bad brew.

750, corked (incredibly tightly) and baled. Pours a crystal clear medium coppery golden amber with a thick, sudsy platinum blonde head. Plenty of lace webbing the glass as it settles. Mildest, sweetest grassy funk on the nose. Tingly, almost sizzling carb on the attack, with a nice medium body. Mid-palate shows some lovely, luscious complexity for a bdg: tobacco, grass, lemon, and a bit of resin--the resin’s especially apparent in the finish. This is a very pleasant little bdg and most welcome at $8 a 750.

Bottle. Fruity yeasty aroma. Golden to almost orange color. It is little bitter and very carbonated. I can taste the alcohol. It is 6-7 percent without a doubt. It is a little fruity and malty and with a clean flavor. This is a very nice Bière de Garde.

yeast forward and bright like duvel. didnt get the caramel or bread notes, great on palette, dry finish