Bière De Garde
The Dandy Brewing Company
- From:
- The Dandy Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- French Bière de Garde
- ABV:
- 8.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 2.84%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 04, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 20, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.02/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.02/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
650ml bottle - the latest in Dandy's 'The Dandy Edition' series of limited-run offerings.
This beer pours a hazy, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of violently melting iceberg profile lace around the glass as things lazily fade away.
It smells of toasted bready and doughy caramel malt, some further biscuity wheatiness, sort of sauced-up ripe bananas, a muddled earthy spiciness, additional dark orchard fruity notes, a subtle musty earthiness, and understated leafy, citrusy, and grassy hop bitters. The taste is grainy and roasted caramel malt, sodden wheat crackers, a mixed bowl of typical domestic fruitiness (red apples, bananas, and bruised oranges), some black pepper and muted clove spice, and a coy leafy, weedy, and somewhat perfumed floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairy active in its probing and sometimes tingly frothiness, the body a solid and beefy middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the big caramel and wheat malts keeping things squarely in their court, even with the tepid suggestion of a coming booze flurry.
Overall, this is a patently drinkable and enjoyable creation, my typical expectation of a heady resemblance to Saisons utterly destroyed. This is old ale (almost), French-style, and very well made - good on Dandy for picking these esoteric brewing traditions to revive and share with the new, middle-aged, and old generations of worldly beer quaffers in Alberta.
Nov 20, 2016This beer pours a hazy, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of violently melting iceberg profile lace around the glass as things lazily fade away.
It smells of toasted bready and doughy caramel malt, some further biscuity wheatiness, sort of sauced-up ripe bananas, a muddled earthy spiciness, additional dark orchard fruity notes, a subtle musty earthiness, and understated leafy, citrusy, and grassy hop bitters. The taste is grainy and roasted caramel malt, sodden wheat crackers, a mixed bowl of typical domestic fruitiness (red apples, bananas, and bruised oranges), some black pepper and muted clove spice, and a coy leafy, weedy, and somewhat perfumed floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairy active in its probing and sometimes tingly frothiness, the body a solid and beefy middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the big caramel and wheat malts keeping things squarely in their court, even with the tepid suggestion of a coming booze flurry.
Overall, this is a patently drinkable and enjoyable creation, my typical expectation of a heady resemblance to Saisons utterly destroyed. This is old ale (almost), French-style, and very well made - good on Dandy for picking these esoteric brewing traditions to revive and share with the new, middle-aged, and old generations of worldly beer quaffers in Alberta.
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