 santoslhalper (162), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
May 9, 2008
Thanks to Naka for sharing this one. Beautiful clear body with a strong, rocky white head. Lots of quick carbonation. Good lookin brew! Fresh baked bread aroma with lemon, butterscotch, orange peel, spice, pepper, herbal and floral notes. Light crisp buttery taste. Clean, dry and slick, with bread, bretty, dry acidic and floral notes and a sweet honey aftertaste. Very clean, easy to drink example of the style.
michael-pollack (1318), 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 (514), 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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