L’Internationale: Volume 2 (Blonde)
Afterthought Brewing Company
- From:
- Afterthought Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- French Bière de Garde
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.25 | pDev: 0.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 31, 2020
- Added:
- Nov 03, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with 40 other breweries and the Facebook group Saison, Bière de Garde, and Farmhouse Ale Appreciation Society.
Brewed with Saaz and Strisselspalt hops and a grist consisting of 90% pilsner malt and 10% wheat.
Brewed with Saaz and Strisselspalt hops and a grist consisting of 90% pilsner malt and 10% wheat.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
4.27/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.27/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Glad I found an Afterthought that I could go back to again.
L'Internationale pushes the style's envelope like many Afterthought ales, but Volume 2 does not push too hard.
But they still push ... in a good way. I like how the label says/implies they kinda collaborated with 40 other breweries and the Saison Appreciation Society (which I'd be a member of, except they are on Facebook and I'm mad at FB.)
An interesting Look; big bubbles, blonde. Smells are more like the barnyard north of the border than France's de garde's dark, fruity malt... but that is pushing the envelope nicely. Tastes do introduce more citrus than the nose detects; but the wheat and wild yeast all offer more interesting pushes. Tart and crisp in my mouth.
I try to be a fan of the only Belgian-inspired micro in the town I lived in for 1953-60. But I'm not yet a consistent fan. That is mostly me: being a traditionalist (and obviously older) who doesn't grasp the envelope being pushed too much.
Mar 31, 2020L'Internationale pushes the style's envelope like many Afterthought ales, but Volume 2 does not push too hard.
But they still push ... in a good way. I like how the label says/implies they kinda collaborated with 40 other breweries and the Saison Appreciation Society (which I'd be a member of, except they are on Facebook and I'm mad at FB.)
An interesting Look; big bubbles, blonde. Smells are more like the barnyard north of the border than France's de garde's dark, fruity malt... but that is pushing the envelope nicely. Tastes do introduce more citrus than the nose detects; but the wheat and wild yeast all offer more interesting pushes. Tart and crisp in my mouth.
I try to be a fan of the only Belgian-inspired micro in the town I lived in for 1953-60. But I'm not yet a consistent fan. That is mostly me: being a traditionalist (and obviously older) who doesn't grasp the envelope being pushed too much.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.23/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This was a fun one, combines styles together. Bright golden body with a sudsy white collar. Smell has great funk that isn't overwhelming but lingers, with lemon, wheat, slight german hops, grass and hay. Taste is much the same, more citrus juice than the smell indicated, funk is more light hearted, wheat, wild yeast, and decent bright maltiness underneath. Feel is crisp, slightly tart, sweet, and funky, and bright.
Jan 22, 2020
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