Gavroche

Brewed by St. Sylvestre
Style: Bière de Garde
St. Sylvestre-Cappel, France

Bottle. 11.2 fl. oz. Slightly hazy, ruby color with nice, silky cream-colored head. Excellent lacing and longevity. Aromas of fruit, vanilla, caramel, and light alcohol. Medium bodied with a smooth texture and light, dry finish. Flavor is fairly sweet and fruity all the through with a faint bitterness. Smoothes out nicely as it warms.

330mL bottle my parents brought back for me on a recent trip to Quebec that I couldn’t go on. This one pours a deep dark burgundy, slightly hazy with a HUGE beige head. Aroma is really different, booze, mild caramel malt, and major barnyard funkyness. I kind of dig it actually, despite it being totally bizarre to me. Complex funk. Like George Brown! Flavour is really neat, great malty sweetness the whole way through, lots of the sour funk upfront, mixed up with boozy notes, all making way for sweet and sour malt notes. Big mouth-feeI, with some very apparent alcohol warming. All about the malts, but as it warms some hops do make an appearance in this finish to add some bite along with the alcohol. I really do dig it, and I’m happy I do because I was afraid that I might not like it. Nothing at all like the only other Biere de Garde I’ve had, nor really like anything I’ve ever had. This one is a pretty funky beer in every sense of the word. Cool.

Bottle. I dig this one. Not very often does it happen, but for a Biere de Garde (even though its a stretch to call it that), I’m into it. Darker red pour leads to a of fruity and minor nut flavors that go well with the carbonation. Finish lingers on a tiny hop note...good stuff.

Bottle. Pour is the definition of amber with a gauzy off-white head. Lots of malt on the nose, with additional metallic and mild floral/fruity notes. First taste is all a complex malt and caramel bomb, with the alcohol showing surprisingly much. Bit of a burn. This is a solid Biere de Garde, but it feels more intense than it needs to be.

Oh, we have a gusher!!! as soon as i popped the cap, it came gushing out. Very dark brown pour with a very large ample head. aroma is sharp, and odd, its a sour like metallic aroma, with loads a diacetly. The flavour is also odd, more diacetyl, and some off sour fruity notes, wow, this iis all over the place, and not very enjoyable, its leaving a nasty sickly sweet aftertaste in my mouth, there is some sweet malt, but its being dominated by all the odd nasty flavours, wow, i dont like this at all.

Pours a slightly hazy copper with a small layer of foam and some minimal lace. Aroma of pennies, diacetyl, and amber malt. Tastes oddly sweet - almost sickeningly so at first, but then the hops kick in and attempt to balance the finish. Lots of diacetyl, some alcohol. Thin creamy body, low carb. Not a fan.

Sweet malt hop aroma with flowers. Cloudy dark red colour with great head and lacing. Malt spice hop flavour with sweet flowers. Fizzy palate.

Bottled. Slightly hazy orange-brown coloured, beautiful lasting brown head. Malty and spicy nose, some fruit, nice. Malty flavour, some herbal notes, dry finish. A few seconds after swallowing the alcohol kicks in. Nice brew, might improve with aging i think.