Avant Garde Ale
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular|
Score
7.05
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TET (6603) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A dark yellow with orange notes, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has fruitness, flowers, some fruit candies and even perfume, hint of caramel. Tate has sweet fruitness, flowers, spicyness, some fruit candies and caramel body. Quite dry in the end due to spicyness and bitterness. Medium bodied, balanced and medium carbonation. Aromatic, complex and balanced. Even the big bottle keeps it’s interest.
Biruski (4902) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 8 years ago
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.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
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.
BoiseBrewBlog (9108) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared by steveoj hazy pale yellow with a lively white head. Classic farmhouse aromas and flavors. Quite dry and a bit tart.
stevoj (18327) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
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.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle thanks to stevoj. Pours out a peach color topped with a white head. Nose is spice light floral perfume notes and some spice. Taste is more of the spice malts light floral perfume and some grain.
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at SBWF 2016. Hazy golden/orange with a white head. Aroma of fruit, light spices and yeast. Similar taste. The body was medium and the finish on the dry side.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
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.
wombat23 (6032) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the source on 6/29/2016. Hazy gold, white head. Aroma of bready malt. Taste is bread, malt, mild fruitness, and spice. Decent for the style.
anstei (3639) reviewed Avant Garde Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Some apples, some grapes, but rather low in aroma. Some farmhouse. Very round and balanced, but not much of anything. I’m a bit torn about this, as it is easy to drink but rather mellow at the same time.