Rive Gauche Biere De Garde
Haymarket Beer Co. Pub & Brewery
- From:
- Haymarket Beer Co. Pub & Brewery
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- French Bière de Garde
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 2.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 09, 2012
- Added:
- May 01, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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"Rive Gauche" Biere De Garde is a French-style farmhouse beer, highly aromatic with clean citrus notes that finishes slightly sweet. From our Drinking & Writing series, Rive Gauche means "Left Bank," the famous bohemian area in Paris where the Lost Generation writers of the 1920's wrote and drank. It is truly a delicious "moveable feast!"
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MasterSki from Canada (ON)
3.58/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
On-tap at Haymarket. Served in a 4oz taster glass.
A - White foam settles to a partial cap, thick collar, and a few splotches of lace. Transparent bronze body.
S - Lots of Belgian yeast presence. Phenolic, spicy, yeast that's perhaps a tad earthy, with only a light hint of citrus in the periphery.
T - Taste is a tad sweeter with a touch of nebulous fruity ester sweetness, as well as a hefty amount of bread and yeast.
M - Grainy, toasty, medium-full body, with moderate carbonation, a dry, crisp finish, and negligible alcohol.
D - It's decent, but nothing special. Not as sweet as other Bière de Gardes I've had, but seems pretty close to the standard description for the style. Well-executed, but not a style that I generally get excited about.
Jun 09, 2012A - White foam settles to a partial cap, thick collar, and a few splotches of lace. Transparent bronze body.
S - Lots of Belgian yeast presence. Phenolic, spicy, yeast that's perhaps a tad earthy, with only a light hint of citrus in the periphery.
T - Taste is a tad sweeter with a touch of nebulous fruity ester sweetness, as well as a hefty amount of bread and yeast.
M - Grainy, toasty, medium-full body, with moderate carbonation, a dry, crisp finish, and negligible alcohol.
D - It's decent, but nothing special. Not as sweet as other Bière de Gardes I've had, but seems pretty close to the standard description for the style. Well-executed, but not a style that I generally get excited about.
Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.63/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.63/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Enjoyed on tap at the brewpub.Yeasty, very lacey, a little astringent from the addition of lemon. A sipper rather than a smoother drinker. They made it closer to a Belgian pale, and it has that Hay market characteristic flavour. I want a bit more spice to nudge it up the style ladder.
May 12, 2012
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