Lost Abbey Avant Garde Ale

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Bière de Garde
San Marcos, California USA

Bottle from Sam’s, I think. Pours a very nice orange color, decanted it is pretty clear. Nose is malty, some candy and molasses, a touch of maple. On taste, it’s polarizing. I dig the sweeter, clean notes with a refreshing bitterness, though at times it seems a bit hot. Overall, it’s a pretty nice rendition of a BdG. Interesting.

Bottle 25.4 oz. Split with James. Pours murky orange with a thick, white head. Aroma of pineapple, sweert malts, cutrus, clove, and hints if barley. No lacing. Interesting, smooth mouthfeel. No traces of alcohol. Great brew.,

Bottle split with Pat. Pours a hazy orange amber body with small white head. Aroma is slight farmhouse funk, spice, malt, and some sugar. The taste is very smooth, well balanced, medium to light mouth feel. Flavor dominated by notes of spice and esters.

Bottle pours hazy orange with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is doughy with notes of apple and nutmeg. Flavor is the same, with added notes of peaches, fresh baked bread, and salt. Body is moderate, round, and soft. Definately a nice beer, just not one of their best.

Pours a lightly hazy light orange color with a fluffy medium head. The aroma is bready and yeasty with some floral and apple notes. The flavor is spicy and dry with a mildly hoppy and mildly fruity thing going on. The beer is mildly salty and has some floral flavors.

Pours a hazy orange color with an off-white, average, creamy, rocky head which is mostly lasting, leaving a small, creamy layer and some scattered, foamy lace. Nose is interesting and complex with plenty of pizza dough and fresh baked bread, light grains, honeyed bread, gala apple notes as if almost apple sauce-like with some tinges of cinnamon and nutmeg, light banana in there but not estery, and just some light earthy/mildly herbal hops. Flavor is much of the same, but spicier, more apple, and a some malt depth; caramel and toffee back everything up with lots of spicy cinnamon, almost pepper-like, some nutmeg, gala apples and skins, sweet and lightly tart, banana is very faint, the bready/doughy notes are light, and the hops are dry and earthy with some herbal notes coming in late. Palate is lively, velvety, medium, and round. Finishes with toasty caramel, hops drying out the palate, cinnamon spice, light apple sauce notes, and an overall moderate bitterness. The best word I can use to describe this one is delicate. The flavor really brought out the spicy note and the malt depth to make for a very interesting Biere de Garde. While not the best of the style I have had, it was incredibly drinkable and enjoyable. I am never surprised by the caliber of the beer produced at LA/PP and will continue to expect perfection from them. Great example of the style with so much to offer.

bottle poured a golden in color with a thin white head that diminished quickly. aroma has grains, pizza dough, some light spicing, and earthy hits. mouth feel is light with average carbonation. flavor picks up some caramel sweetness, grains, plenty of bread yeast, light bitterness, and some spice. not overwhelmed with this one.

If I bought a company that made hot dog buns on Day 1: we would add 2 buns to every package ... Day 2: work on deliciousness.