Gardener Beet Session Ale
Village Brewery
- From:
- Village Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 22, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 11, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - this year's 'Gardener' incarnation, where they source a portion of their ingredients from local backyard gardens (I almost said farmers). No indication as to where the beets came from, but I'm guessing that they looked north.
This beer pours a clear, bright pale salmon amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some random de-icing back car window lace around the glass as things slowly sink out of sight.
It smells of cold borscht (the only kind I've ever had, thank you Polish ex-girlfriend), grainy and crackery pale malt, and some musty, leafy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, none-too-subtle earthy and vegetal beets, a hint of wayward son yeastiness, and more leafy, musty, and dead floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and not particularly smooth, but hardly leaning in the other direction, either. It finishes trending dry, the beets and fading malt in a dance of lingering death.
Overall - well, I cannot fault truth in advertising, when it's actually true, right? This is a session ale (4.7% represent!), and the beets aren't exactly shy, to say the least. Interesting, and very autumn-friendly, with a certain joie-de-vivre of Alberta harvest mentality. Good stuff.
Oct 22, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright pale salmon amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some random de-icing back car window lace around the glass as things slowly sink out of sight.
It smells of cold borscht (the only kind I've ever had, thank you Polish ex-girlfriend), grainy and crackery pale malt, and some musty, leafy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, none-too-subtle earthy and vegetal beets, a hint of wayward son yeastiness, and more leafy, musty, and dead floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and not particularly smooth, but hardly leaning in the other direction, either. It finishes trending dry, the beets and fading malt in a dance of lingering death.
Overall - well, I cannot fault truth in advertising, when it's actually true, right? This is a session ale (4.7% represent!), and the beets aren't exactly shy, to say the least. Interesting, and very autumn-friendly, with a certain joie-de-vivre of Alberta harvest mentality. Good stuff.
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