Bière de Garde
Fuggles Beer
- From:
- Fuggles Beer
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.4%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.9 | pDev: 1.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 11, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 17, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Bière de Garde is a traditional french farmhouse-style ale, emphasizing the tart fruitiness of the yeast and the sweet maltiness of the grains.
A modern reimagining of a classic European beer style with the introduction of blueberries and vanilla bean.
24.5 IBU
A modern reimagining of a classic European beer style with the introduction of blueberries and vanilla bean.
24.5 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3.94/5 rDev +1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +1%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hazy purple-brown color. Pours a short tan head that dropped back to a thin skiff after a minute. High flow of tiny bubbles from the bottom of the glass. Only left a couple of dots of lacing.
Sour funk and a strong blueberry scent that blended well with the funk. A light yeast and malt scent formed the base. Swirling the glass boosted the funk into a light barnyard that disappears after a quick sniff.
Starts off with a bitter coffee flavor. Both sweet and tart kick in and the flavor opens up to a light blueberry and black pepper. There is a hint of vanilla that smooths out the flavor while remaining mostly hidden. The aftertaste has a quick burst of blueberry which gives way to a tart bitterness. The bitters taste more like knapweed than hops. It seems more bitter than the 24.5 IBUs listed on the label.
Quite foamy, but it never quite gets to a creamy feel. Medium body.
Very unusual sweep of scents and flavors. Just about anything funky and tart can be lumped into a Saison style, however this pursued other styles down alleyways to beat them unconcious and rifle their pockets for odd smells and flavors. Still, they all fit together into a coherent whole; the blueberry and the funk are almost a single, larger scent/flavor. The only negative is the bitters that have that back of the mouth taste of walking through a field of knapweed and inhaling the dust that gets brushed off. The bitters work with the initial coffee flavor, but take over too much of the aftertaste.
Jun 17, 2020Sour funk and a strong blueberry scent that blended well with the funk. A light yeast and malt scent formed the base. Swirling the glass boosted the funk into a light barnyard that disappears after a quick sniff.
Starts off with a bitter coffee flavor. Both sweet and tart kick in and the flavor opens up to a light blueberry and black pepper. There is a hint of vanilla that smooths out the flavor while remaining mostly hidden. The aftertaste has a quick burst of blueberry which gives way to a tart bitterness. The bitters taste more like knapweed than hops. It seems more bitter than the 24.5 IBUs listed on the label.
Quite foamy, but it never quite gets to a creamy feel. Medium body.
Very unusual sweep of scents and flavors. Just about anything funky and tart can be lumped into a Saison style, however this pursued other styles down alleyways to beat them unconcious and rifle their pockets for odd smells and flavors. Still, they all fit together into a coherent whole; the blueberry and the funk are almost a single, larger scent/flavor. The only negative is the bitters that have that back of the mouth taste of walking through a field of knapweed and inhaling the dust that gets brushed off. The bitters work with the initial coffee flavor, but take over too much of the aftertaste.
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