Brewers Art La Petroleuse

Brewed by The Brewers Art
Style: Bière de Garde
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Opaque copper with medium beige head. Aroma is light, light sweet, very herbal, some grapefruit. Taste is some sour, mild sweet, fruity, grapefruit on top that quickly gives way to fairly strong herbal. Watery medium body, some resin.

On tap. Poured a hazy amber color with an averaged sized head. Citris and spicy aroma. Dry and bitter aftertaste.

On cask at Max’s Belgian Fest: Pours a hazy golden amber with a well-lacing wispy white head. Aroma of lightly sweet biscuity malt and grassy hay character. Starts with a mild doughy sweetness and lots of earthy grassy hay bittering hop notes before a drier finish. An ok Biere de Garde, but could be a little more balanced.

A hazy gold color with a very small white head and some lacing. Spice and citrus dominated this brew.

Cask at Max’s. Pours a nice hazy deep copper with a lasting fluffy head. Aroma is intense with lots of sulfur which turned me off right away- phenolic and clove with an ok malty backbone. Sulfur fades a bit in the flavor but still noticeable, pale stale crackery malt,s light phenolics, earbal dusty and earthy leather as it warms with a tacky dry cobwebby finish.

Draft at Max’s 72 Hour Belgian Beer Fest. This was on cask, actually. Cloudy brown. Nose is fruity and sweet. Taste is VERY fruity with soft yeast, soft caramel, and light flowery hops. Slick feel to the body that typically comes with cask beers. Soft to no carbonation. Lighter feel overall. Lots more big fruit during the finish. More yeast notes and flowers too. Very tasty!

Dark amber coloured body with ruby tints and a thin off-white head. Aroma of hops, caramel, malt, caster sugar and cherries. Medium to Full-bodied; Spicey hoppiness with a strong malt backbone and some sugars. Aftertaste clean and pleasant throughout. Overall, a decent beer-nice from a local brewer, but not the best ever! I sampled this pint on draught at RFD in Washington, D.C. on 20-June-2004 with JonR888710 & Haddon90.

A great brew, golden to straw-ish in color, Nice white to off-white colored head, good lacing. The aroma was doughy, grainy, wheaty type scents. The flavor was doughy, grainy, slight funk, light fruits, faint funk, dusty cobwebs in the background. The flavor was well-balanced by a clean finish and musty-ness. The mouthfeel was moderate in body, balanced dryness, clean drinker. Good stuff, a very nice BdG!