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4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, de Garde Brewing, USA, Wild Ale

de Garde The Apricot

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Brewery: de Garde Brewing
Country: USA
ABV: 6.5%
Style: American Wild Ale

Brewer Description: (from bottle) A spontaneous Wild Ale aged in oak barrels with apricots.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.32
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 1 pint 9.4 fl. oz. bottle with no clear bottled on or best before date. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A cloudy straw yellow colour with an almost two finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly to a ring around the glass while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Candied and tart, almost like sour peach gummy rings.
Taste: Tart, sour, apricot, peach, candied, oak and some light funk.
Mouthfeel: Acidic, light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Very nice with those sour fruit gummy candy aroma and flavours. A lot more sour in the taste than the aroma suggests, but also not a lot of funkiness.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Beer Reviews, de Garde Brewing, USA, Wild Ale

de Garde The Little Peach

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Brewery: de Garde Brewing
Country: USA
ABV: 5%
Style: American Wild Ale

Brewer Description: (from bottle) A spontaneous Wild Ale aged in oak barrels with Oregon peaches.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.98
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A 1 pint 9.4 fl. oz. bottle, bottled in January 2018. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A cloudy straw yellow colour with a two finger white head that dissipated quickly and left sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Tart and sweet, ripe peach, apricot, oak and light funk.
Taste: Tart, sour, unripe peach, lemon juice, oak and funk.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate prickly carbonation.
Overall: Aroma was amazing but taste didn’t quite match the aroma. Still quite nice though, and easy to drink.

4 - Good (buy), Beachwood Blendery, Beer Reviews, USA, Wild Ale

Beachwood Blendery Chaos Is A Friend Of Mine

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Brewery: Beachwood Blendery
Country: USA
ABV: 6%
Style: American Wild Ale
Other Notes: 2017 release

Brewer Description: (from bottle) A beer inspired by the Belgian lambic tradition. Belgian-style sour ale aged in oak barrels.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.32
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 500ml bottle, 2017 release. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: A cloudy golden orange colour with a two finger white head that had pretty good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Funky, barnyard, tart, peach, grape, oak and lemon juice.
Taste: Sour, tart, lemon, grape and oak with light funk.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate to high prickly carbonation.
Overall: Nice and refreshing but strangely not much funk in the taste considering how much I got from the aroma. But nonetheless, still very good.

4 - Good (buy), Beachwood Blendery, Beer Reviews, Lambic - Fruit, USA

Beachwood Blendery Careful With That Passion Fruit, Eugene

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Brewery: Beachwood Blendery
Country: USA
ABV: 6.5%
Style: Belgian Lambic (Fruit)
Other Notes: 2017 release

Brewer Description: (from bottle) A beer inspired by the Belgian lambic tradition. Belgian style sour ale aged in oak barrels with passion fruit.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.28
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 500ml bottle, 2017 release. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy straw blonde colour with a two finger white head that had decent retention while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Passionfruit and lemon peel with a hint of wood and funk.
Taste: Sour, passionfruit, lemon juice and oak with only hints of funk.
Mouthfeel: Medium to light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Nice aroma and flavours especially from the passionfruit, but I’m not getting much funk at all considering its supposed to be a Fruit Lambic.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Jester King Brewery, USA, Wild Ale

Jester King Boxer’s Revenge

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Brewery: Jester King Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 9.5%
Style: American Wild Ale
Other Notes: Sour Barrel-Aged Strong Ale. Native yeast and souring bacteria captured from the land and air at our brewery in the Texas Hill Country slowly imparted a sense of place in this dry, tart, highly attenuated ale during months of fermentation in oak barrels. Unfiltered, unpasteurized, and 100% bottle-conditioned

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Boxer worked himself nearly to death for the pigs and was repaid by being sent off to the glue factory. But what if Boxer escaped from the glue truck, got back to that farm and said, “It’s payback time!” (We imagine a Rambo-esque bloodbath of vigilante justice and vintage Arnold-quality one liners, with an obvious setup for “Boxer’s Revenge II: The Clydesdale Retribution.”) In the end, Boxer would find an old, abandoned farm, where he’d build a brewery and work even harder than before; only this time not for the pigs.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.2
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 1 pint 9.4 fl. oz. bottle, blend #9, bottled on 22nd March 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden copper colour with a two finger white head that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Funky, tart, oak, hay with some light tropical fruit, mostly apricot.
Taste: Tart, funky, tropical peach and apricot, citrus lemon, oak, hay and a light earthiness.
Mouthfeel: Dry, medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Nice funk and fruit aromas and flavours. Although ABV is quite high, it still goes down really easy.