St. Luke's Verse (Lavender Gruit)
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

Appearance: A clear golden body that shows ample carbonation, poured with a single finger of head that did not lace but retained exceptionally well.

Smell: An abundant herbal mix as lemongrass, pepper, lavender with touches of rosemary, cane sugar. Warming helps the beer come out more which really addresses it's only weakness, in that it could use a bit more potency. Still a very minor complaint.

Taste: Starts with a herbal lemon and pepper note before a brief mild malt note makes an appearance with a mixed rosemary and oregano touch as then some floral and earth notes which I assume is lavender and earthy hops round out the beer in a mild fashion.

Mouthfell: The carbonation helps out the entire beer, but it is a bit thin. The aftertaste is a mixed herbal note that lasts forever but doesn't cling excessively, although has a slight dry note. Transitioning is also quite solid, especially given then range.

Drinkability: Light bodied and full of flavour, a rare and great combination. Easy to drink and easy on the system, but the dry note stops it just short of refreshing which is really the only weakness.

Final Thoughts: Another excellent offering from Beau's which further cements my love of Gruit. This one is a herbal explosion and quite frankly I sincerely hope this one comes around again as I thoroughly enjoyed it. Two thumbs up.

 

 

Acquired taste.

 

 

 

Way too much lavender. It's more pleasant on the nose than in the mouth where it dominates poorly.

 

Quite striking for it's unusual flavor. Very herbal, moderately sweet. Interesting, well off the beaten track, but not to my taste.

 

Purchased at the LCBO as part of a Best of Beau's 4pk for $24.00. 600ml bottle served at 4deg C in a tulip

A- Opens well and pours a high white head that films out in a minute. Dark gold color and unfiltered

S- Oodles of fruit and sugar.

T- Lavender shines through. Never had a heavy lavender beer before but I like it! Not overpowering and very refreshing. Nice fall time beer by the fire. Aftertaste is there forever. This is a powerful beer but does not hit you in the face with flavor.

M- Creamy good.

O- Nice beer! If I see it on tap I'll get it for sure. Lots of fruity goodness here. Will buy again

Food Pairing

This was a tough one.... This beer went well with...... Roasted lamb but be careful. Keep it simple with Rosemary and a touch of Thyme as this beer can be overpowered easily even though it's powerful it's self.

Enjoy

This fruit over flows with floral lavender and rosemary flavors, but without any bitterness to stand on, comes off like a slightly malty watered down potpourri soda. Remarkable how odd and undigestible beer can taste without hops.

I feel that the herbal flavors are just too overpowering in this one. The lavender aroma makes it smell like someone dumped scented shampoo into the bottle. The rosemary and thyme flavors just dominate everything and seem really out of place in a beer. I could only get through about a half of this bottle before dumping it. Gruits are really hit and miss for me. I tend to enjoy gruits where the purpose of the herbs is for bittering but when they are thrown in for flavor I'm usually not a fan.

 

Only cafe. Says lavender but its very oregeno in aroma and taste, with pepper. Saison like. Not bad.