Guarded By Monkeys
Strangeways Brewing
- From:
- Strangeways Brewing
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- French Bière de Garde
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.41 | pDev: 12.02%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 08, 2016
- Added:
- May 21, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.82/5 rDev +12%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.82/5 rDev +12%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
On tap at brewery:
Clear amber gold with ok head, minor lacing.
Nose is floral to fruity, guessing the yeast mainly. Fresh cut flowers with a hint of herbal spiciness. The wood sort of lingers in the background. Actually really enjoy the smell of this beer.
Taste relies more heavily on the wood, which rushes forward on the tongue as much as it hid itself in the nose. Little bite of bitterness accentuated by a fairly high level of carbonation. A little unripe pear and apple sneak out, and I wish the floral fruity notes of the nose came out a little more in the taste. It's a more bitter beer that the nose suggests.
As I get used to this, I appreciate it more. Herbal notes grow a tad with warmth, floral yeasty notes catch up slightly in end. The eventually comes across as a dry, floral Saison to me.
May 08, 2016Clear amber gold with ok head, minor lacing.
Nose is floral to fruity, guessing the yeast mainly. Fresh cut flowers with a hint of herbal spiciness. The wood sort of lingers in the background. Actually really enjoy the smell of this beer.
Taste relies more heavily on the wood, which rushes forward on the tongue as much as it hid itself in the nose. Little bite of bitterness accentuated by a fairly high level of carbonation. A little unripe pear and apple sneak out, and I wish the floral fruity notes of the nose came out a little more in the taste. It's a more bitter beer that the nose suggests.
As I get used to this, I appreciate it more. Herbal notes grow a tad with warmth, floral yeasty notes catch up slightly in end. The eventually comes across as a dry, floral Saison to me.
Reviewed by danmouer from Virginia
3.25/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Brewery's description:" 5.5% abv and 29 IBUs. You are so beautiful, hence your funky Brett body and tart Lactobacillus soul should be hidden deep in the jungle. Veiled in oak barrels for four months of meticulous aging, this wild beer is nuanced by primary fermentation with our Bière de Garde yeast, which flaunts its mysterious talents by exposing a myriad of fruity aromas and esters. Hence it is fitting that this untamed concoction should be Guarded By Monkeys."
Tasted from a tap to a growler to a goblet. Nice orange-amber color. Very cloudy. Definitely rustic looking. Foam head is little and quickly vanishing.
Aroma is very fruity, but much of the fruit smells like USA hops, not fermentation esters. Peachy-apricoty-citrusy Fruit is joined by sweet malt, honey tones, and a hint of lactic acid. Definitely rustic.
Flavor and mouthfeel are big, full, fruit-bomb, with a touch if brett funk--just a touch. Finish is long, bitter, and bone dry.
Strangeways brews strange brews. This is fairly typical. I like it for its rustic quality. I believe it could be a beer that might have been quaffed on a Late 19th-c. Wallonian farmstead, even with the distracting American hops. I would guess that there are a number if additives in this beer that would never make the cut of the Bavarian Purity laws, but then this is the French-Belgium borderland interpreted by someone named Strangeways in Richmond, Virginia.
Extra points for brass balls and a great imagination.
Jun 18, 2015Tasted from a tap to a growler to a goblet. Nice orange-amber color. Very cloudy. Definitely rustic looking. Foam head is little and quickly vanishing.
Aroma is very fruity, but much of the fruit smells like USA hops, not fermentation esters. Peachy-apricoty-citrusy Fruit is joined by sweet malt, honey tones, and a hint of lactic acid. Definitely rustic.
Flavor and mouthfeel are big, full, fruit-bomb, with a touch if brett funk--just a touch. Finish is long, bitter, and bone dry.
Strangeways brews strange brews. This is fairly typical. I like it for its rustic quality. I believe it could be a beer that might have been quaffed on a Late 19th-c. Wallonian farmstead, even with the distracting American hops. I would guess that there are a number if additives in this beer that would never make the cut of the Bavarian Purity laws, but then this is the French-Belgium borderland interpreted by someone named Strangeways in Richmond, Virginia.
Extra points for brass balls and a great imagination.
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