Pour slowly fluffy-headed rust-hued corked brew to ease overwhelming billowy foam. Sweet honey-malted butterscotch-candied creaminess transverses lively spiced hops for mellow flow. Tiny yeast sediment at bottom warms light-hearted barleywine effervescence. As difficult to define as it is to find proper name on graffiti-packed label.
Tag Archives: biere de garde
CASTELAIN BLOND BIERE DE GARDE
JENLAIN BLONDE PUR MALT
ST. DRUON DE SEBOURG FRENCH ABBEY ALE
White wine aromatics spur initial hop-spiced orange peel bittering, ensuing lemony grapefruit tang, and soured cider residual of obliging golden-hazed Belgian-styled pale ale (previously known as Sebourg French Wheat). Buttered corn sweetness drapes green apple tartness before bright tangerine-cherry-berry sheen lingers to soft-watered candi-sugared honeydew finish.
(LES BRASSEURS) CANON BIERE DE GARDE
CASTELAIN CH’TI BLONDE
Lightly gold-hazed ‘Biere De Garde’ spreads musty yeast above spicy citrus. Deceptive dank-cellared moldy fungi waft juxtaposes tidy lemon rind souring and peppery-hopped ginger-spiced clove-allpsice continuance. Banana-breaded white peach-pear-quince illusions round out earthen clay-like backdrop of busy blonde ale.
(FRANCHES-MONTAGNES) ABBAYE DE SAINT BON-CHIEN
Deliriously savory burgundy-hued full body cost $21.49 for 1 pint 9 ounces of luxuriant 10% alcohol liquid. But that’s a bargain. Matured in Merlot, Cabernet, and Grappa vats, its expansive sharp citric hop plain and vegetal earthiness spread across beautiful Sangria medley suggesting banana, apple, red grape, pineapple, and apricot. Spicy cinnamon entwines apropos vinous acidity to port wine finish. On tap at Copper Mine, vinegary brettanomyces funk brings mouth-puckering sourness to oaken cherry, green grape, white wine, rosé and vermouth tones.
Highly recommended.
(HEAVYWEIGHT) BIERE D’ART
Tantalizing warmth and luxurious complexity of Abbey-styled Jersey brew attributed to perfume-like yeast residue, sinewy prune texture, buttery malt sustenance and black-peppered herbage. Flowery dry hops dart through ancillary plum-ripened sweetness, fig-spiced cherry dalliance, vinous sherry perk and peachy nectar niche. Only possible drawback is ester-y citric sourness could be off-putting.