The Architect
de Garde Brewing

 

 

Excellent. Unfiltered golden copper body. Massive funk, oak, leather, lemon. It tastes quite a bit like it came from the Senne Valley. Maybe a touch sweeter from the honey, mildly bitter leather and lemon, damp wood on backend. Delicious.

Lightly foggy pale but burnt gold with a short yet persistently fuzzy off-white head and curly collar.

The nose is brie cheese and barnyard funk, but the palate is very woody and more bitter than de Garde usually executes, with a distinctly floral finish.

Wow, that's insanely unique, amping up de Garde's most renown characteristics all in a single beer, like drinking funky roses. This is all the more befuddling, though, in that this is a honey added ale that mentions no other ingredients, so I actually expected the opposite experience from how it turned out.

 

 

 

Cloudy orange body, white foam head. Big barnyard funk, cheesecloth musk, sour oak, sweet honeycomb, and citrus in the nose. Taste starts with the oak and citrus before waves of funk and musk wash over the palate, horse blanket added to those in nose. Honey is a sweetener on the finish. Feel is funky, wet before drying out by the finish, oak backed, sour in a pithy fashion, and bright. Funk bomb!

L: A darker, richer golden blonde ale.
S: Strong, citrus notes
T: A strong bretty tarty flavor with an enjoyable wacky oak finish.
F: A tarty, light citrus beer.
O: A very light enjoyable tarty oak beer that's more like a lambic than a sour.