Bayou Teche Brewery Acadie Bière de Garde

Acadie Bière de Garde

 

Bayou Teche Brewery in Arnaudville, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸

  Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular
Score
6.62
ABV: 6.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 8
As a Bière de Garde, Acadie offers the style’s prominent malty aroma. A freshly poured beer is highly carbonated and bronze colored with a nice, thick off-white head. Malty with an underlying caramel sweetness, Acadie finishes medium-dry. The restrained use of continental hops provides its balanced hop bitterness. Acadie offers the smooth roundness of an artisanal farmhouse ale, thus this French style beer is terrific paired with most any cuisine. It wonderfully harmonizes, and has the uncanny ability to bring a tableful of contrasting flavors together – think platters of pickled okra and freshly-sliced tomatoes, hand-crafted goat cheeses, a sliced baguette, a nice hogshead cheese and cutting board layered with sliced tasso and andouille. Acadie brings diverse flavors together for an unforgettable meal.

Acadie is brewed year round and approaches 6% ABV, with an IBU of 20. The original gravity of this French artisanal ale is 1.065, with a final gravity at 1.016. The restrained use of elegant Strisselspalt and Saaz hops offer a perfectly balanced bitterness with a very discreet hop aroma.
 

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

From tap at d.b.a., New Orleans. Very malty with some caramel, sweetish berries, soft yeast (lacking yeast character), grain. Bit sweet, medium body. Not much of a Bière de Garde at all, more British in style. Drinkable but a bit disappointing.

Tried from Draft on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:17


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle. Hazy pale gold with a 3-finger off-white head. Highly carbonated. Stale malt, cereal, biscuit, mildly fruity, yeast.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Apr 2019 at 02:02


7.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Lemon, toffee malt, and straw aroma. Hazy amber with giant off-white head. Lightly sweet lemon, toffee malt, and dry dusty hay flavor. Nice body - lots of carbonation. Very nice beer.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2018 at 21:10


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Stein’s Market in Nawlins. Clear deep golden amber color, large white head with good retention. Aroma of caramel, cookie dough. Taste is earthy and lightly spiced. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2014 at 10:14


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

A hazed Amber ale with a thick frothy light mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light mineral notes, grassy hop, ok. In mouth, a rather harsh interpretation of a Bière de garde, with cereals, grassy hop, tart character, a bit off. On tap at Coney Island on tap.

Tried from Draft on 12 Jul 2014 at 12:09


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Pours a clear amber with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has lots of bread and grass notes with just a hint of grassy bitterness backing. Flavor has some light sweet grains with a good amount of bread and underlying light fruit and grass.

Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2014 at 14:08


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle - Perfumy caramel. Clear copper with a decent white head. Caramel and a light grassy hop bite. Very well done, but on the dark side with little farmhouse notes.

Tried from Bottle on 04 May 2014 at 06:21


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home in CT. Pours perfectly clear amber-gold with a creamy, mostly white head. Simple sugary malt aroma, light toasty bread notes, some honey and caramel. Medium sweet flavor, rich toasty sugars, ripened fruits, dates and raisins, toffee, sweet bread. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish with robust sugars, lightly syrupy, more sweet bread and dried fruits, hefty caramel, light grapes, just suggestions of leafy bitterness. Not bad overall. The character is mostly just sugary malts, but there is some depth and nuance to the malts that keep the beer interesting.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2013 at 12:39