7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Pale amber, bit of white head. Smells citrussy, a bit sweet. Light body. Taste is soft, medium bitter with a light sweetness. Some caramel, plenty of orange zest, ending on a slight lingering bitter aftertaste. Very refreshing and easy.

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5.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle (from koht, says "Avant Garde Farmhouse Lager" on the label). Pours hazy golden with whiteish head. Aroma is phenolic, fruits, grains, malt, huskiness. Flavor is sweet and bitter, caramel, grains, noble hops, fruits, malt, slight cardboard even. Finish is dry and sugary with booze. Carbonation is quite fizzy. Overall: drinkablish ESL, more fruity in the nose, but no way this is biere de garde. This should come in 2L PET bottles. --- Beer merged from original tick of Avant Garde on 28 Apr 2018 at 22:46. Original review text: Wtf?! Säästu Kange 7% maitseb paremini kui see. Farmhouse lager my *ss.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Lightly hazybgolden with a white head. Floral, honey, light spice, some hay, light bread malt. Medium fizzy body. Spicy bite in the finish. Enjoyable.

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared. Poured a murky amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is toffee caramel, sweet malt, yeast, alcohol. The flavour is moderate sweet with a rich smooth crisp, sweet malty, fruity alcohol, dry yeast palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

750ml bottle from Green Mountain Liquor.. Pours out a milky pale golden with soft white bubbly head. Spicy aroma, equal parts floral and savory. Taste follows, spice, yeast, bready malts and faint floral notes.

6.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Older bottle bought online. Loose, milky, snow white, moussy head over an equally cloudy peach blonde beer with salmon pinkish hue. Aroma of ripe peach, banana peel, iron, red apple, old cookies, honey, canned pineapple, pear, white raspberry and a hint of onsetting ’rusty’ oxidation. Fruit sweet onset, very appleish, hints of peach, dried banana and dried apricot, softish carbo, honeyish, slick malt sweetness in the middle with a metallic ’zing’ to it somewhere, tad bready too, leading to a somewhat thin finish with only softly bittering, herbal, tea-like hops which do leave a slight peppery flavor after swallowing, but it is the overall apple-like sweetness which prevails, along with that obnoxious hint at oxidation. Clearly a "bière de garde" should be able to last longer than a few years in a cellar without oxidizing this much, but apart from that, this is, to me at least, not better than the classic northern French examples of the style. It has a certain ’straightforwardness’ and a Belgian yeast quality not unlike e.g. its La Choulette or Ch’ti counterparts, but it feels too soft and sweet for the style, with too much yeastiness going on. Not entirely true to style and certainly one of the least interesting Lost Abbey beers for me.