Bière de Garde
Fox Farm Brewery

Pours a really nice copper color with an off-white head. Nice looking beer, without standing out positively or negatively in any meaningful way.

Aroma is relatively nondescript. Some fruity esters. No hops, and light malts.

Taste is much more interesting than the nose. Sweet, caramel like malts that don't go anywhere near cloying. Floral and light esters.

Overall, tasty beer.

 

Pours a mucky amber-bronze color with a finger of light tan head that quickly settles into a lasting wisp that leaves short-lived sheets of lacing.

Would peg it as a wild ale or possibly a Flemish brown if sniffed blind. It has some vinegar-like sourness with apple cider and a touch of allspice behind.

Very vinegar-forward taste and mildly sweet mid-palate, with a tart finish that again hints at green apple, although perhaps not as strongly as the nose.

Medium to full bodied with strong fizz.

I haven’t had enough of these to know if this is to style. Certainly a pleasant and refreshing beer if you’re looking for something tart and acidic.

 

Pours an auburn brown, lactic and blackberry skins on the nose. It's dry with some toasted bread notes that with some tart orange marmalade and some cider-like notes. It's got some of those oud bruin martinelli notes. The acidity and cider notes are quite aggressive. It's a nice example of the style.

Biere de Garde (2021) from Fox Farm. Received from @Roy_Hobbs in BIF #14. 500 mL capped bottle. Stored at home at 38 degrees. Reviewed 29/11/21. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Printed on end of label “BATCH NO. 2 BOTTLED: FEB 21”. Served at 54.1 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 57.2 degrees.
Appearance – 4.
First pour – Deep Gold (SRM 6), clear.
Body – Deep Gold (SRM 6), clear. When rear-lite, same.
Head – Large (Maximum four cm, aggressive center pour), floral white, fizzy with short retention, diminishing to a one mm crown fed by effervescence and a thin partial cap. Second pour produces a 1.5 cm head and raises the sediment.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 4 – Initially a bit vinous and fruity with some weak oak, no malt, no hops, no yeast.
Flavor – 4.25 – Taste follows the nose but slightly acidic with mostly tannic acid, no malt, no hops, no yeast. No ethanol (6.5 % ABV, as marked on container) taste or aroma. Mild gastric warming toward the end. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 4 – Thin, watery, lively carbonation. The oral cavity ends up a bit slippery.
Final impression and summation: 4 Nicely tart and acidic, a showcase for the tannic acid from the foeders.

 

 

 

500 ML bottle batch two bottled February 21

Clear brown almost like shiny lake water no lacing head faded very quickly
Tartness overwhelms the smell
Taste similar not overpowering but overall prominent not getting much else thanks a little thin with some slickness
Overall not my favorite from Fox Farm

 

 

 

Batch 2 bottled Feb 21. 500ml bottle served in a Spiegelau tulip. Pours a lovely garnet hue with a loose head that immediately disperses. Nose is lovely - tart notes with hints of oak. Taste consistent with nose with some lingering tart fruit at the finish. Mouthfeel is light in body with an aggressive carbonation that leaves a sharp prickle across the tongue between quaffs. Acidity is shy of puckering but stimulates the salivary glands. Overall, a nice example of the style.