 tytoanderso (1152), St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
Apr 29, 2008
750ml caged and corked bottle. Very outdoorsy aroma. Grass, hay and dry leaves. Dry and dusty yeast, bread dough and a small whimper of caramel malt. Loads of grassy and earthy hops as the beer opens. Pours a bright and slightly hazy orange with a very thin ring of a white head. Crisp and slightly chalky on the palate. Slightly tart. Very bready, earthy and grassy. Crisp and refreshing. Medium bodied, creamy with delicate carbonation. Nothing really flawed here, but nothing worth shouting about. A fine summer beer, though. Thanks Craig!
michael-pollack (1319), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 16, 2008 750ml Bottle: Aroma is very sweet and fruity. Smells of grapes, fruit, peach, cardboard, and spices. Poured orange in color with a small, off-white head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Opaque. Flavor is very sweet. Tastes of fruit, malts, caramel, candi sugar, hops,
Medium to full body. Viscous, then chalky texture. Soft carbonation. Hoppy, dry finish.
kegbear (56), Orange, California, USA
Jul 12, 2008 750 ml corked bottle. Smells like the inside of my Gramma’s cupboard. Lots of yeast and bread flavor with some spice. A little fruit comes through. Mellow bread taste really develops nicely as it warms.
blutt59 (521), Dallas, Texas, USA
Jun 18, 2008 750 ml bottle, wispy head, smells of aspirin and grapejuice, very cheesy flavor like a light bleu, great body to this with a wine like finish
twitcher (121), framingham, Massachusetts, USA
Jun 11, 2008 bottle. Heavy deep orange color, pretty large bubbly white head with a lot of sticking power and lacing. Smells of a light yeasty tartness and some grainy, musty malts. Flavors of light spicy hoppiness, some sweet candy sugar, boozy fruity phenols, and some sharp yeast notes. Good balance of flavors, if not entirely within the norm for the style. Very crisp, clean, and even palate.
Glouglouburp (1876), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jun 9, 2008 In short: A fruity Bière de Garde. Highly drinkable.
How: Bottle, 750ml, about 8 months old
The look: Cloudy light golden body with a very small white head
In long: Somewhat sweet with crisp honey, very bready, some orange peels. Quite a bit of fruity yeast esters with pineapples, mangos and apricots. A bit dusty. Nose and taste lack the farmhouse character of the good French Biere de Garde and there are a bit more fruity yeast flavours than usual but everything else feels very much French Bière de Garde. Highly drinkable. To me this to me is a mostly typical Bière de Garde but with a light nice Abbey Tripel twist. A very good beer that doesn’t stays mostly within the boundaries of the style, if all Avant-Garde would be that groundbreaking and innovative Home Alone would be considered experimental cinema.
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