Lost Abbey En Garde

Formerly brewed at Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Bière de Garde
San Marcos, California USA

This was easily my favorite from the Anniversary party. I like a gently brett’d ale and this seemed to have the perfect balance of saison and sour going on. Works very well. Starts spicy and finishes sour, making you clamor for more. I wish this were a fully rotational offering.

Barrel aged Avant Garde. Tried at Port Brewing’s First Anniversary party. Tried after drinking Angels share. Plastic phenolic smell when tasting. Whoa, I didn’t like it at first. After a few sips, the plastic smell seemed to go away. A good mild beer, but the plastic brought it down. I read about it on the web: "Phenolic compounds are typically by-products of wild Saccharomyces strains, and Weizenbier can be considered (and is by many) a spoiled beer. The trick is to keep the spoilage under control -- to get enough of that clovelike character to make the beer interesting, but not enough to make it unpalatable. One of the things you will find if you’re ever fortunate enough to experience a wild yeast infection is that it continues to get worse the longer the beer sits in contact with the yeast. You may barely be able to detect a phenolic note in the beer at bottling, but a month later the stuff will be undrinkable. The yeast has finished its main metabolic process (changing sugar to alcohol), but it just keeps cranking out those phenolics. One way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to filter your Weizenbier as soon as you can. Once the yeast is removed from the beer, the flavor should, in respect to this phenolic character, be relatively stable."

Sampler at the brewery’s anniversary. Light and crisp, hazy golden color with medium off-white head. Citrusy aroma with honey. You can def. taste the wine barrel presence, the palate has a quite sour finish. Very fruity stuff, not bad, but not that great. I think I like the regular Avant Garde better.

Sample at the Lost Abbey anniversary... can’t say much different than the previous...very tart, too much so for me...other fruit flavors with subtle vanilla, very dry finish. def wasn’t my fav on tap that day

From a 4 oz sample at Lost anniversary 1st anniversary. Very refreshing brew with a little tangy wine like presence. Very bubbly and nicely done. I like this style.

I had this on draft at Lost Abbey’s first anniversary party. It’s tangy & refreshing, with a lot of complex flavors of vanilla, apricot and some tartness

Really tasty big and bold and bigger and much better than Avant Garde. Really tastes nice witht he vanilla nad oak. On Tap at PP anniverssary party.

Vanilla, oak and white fruit nose. Honey apricots and pineapple are fairly prominent on the palate. Woodsy and delicate finish.