En Garde, Connards!
Mystic Brewery in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.02
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pour is a murky brown with a huge white head. Aroma is some old shoe leather with some brown sugar. Flavor is a whole wheat bread and grain with a dry earthy mustiness. Finish goes away quickly but leaves some caramelized sugar on the tongue. Really malty but those malts turn out to be really flavorful as well.
ineedbeer (4102) reviewed En Garde, Connards! from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
750 ml bottle, Batch 405. Aroma is fruity with some over ripe stone fruit, red apple and pear. Some light banana and bubblegum. Moderately strong spicy, phenolic notes. Some medium vegetable notes and a bit of plastic. Pours a somewhat clear, copper brown with a light amber hue and a large, moderately thick, tan head that exhibits decent retention as it collapses into itself. Moderate lacing and fairly small legs. Flavor has a medium light acidity with a medium light malt note. Malt has some light toasted bread, caramel and nut notes. Some moderate stone fruit notes along with a bit of banana and pear. Medium light bitterness. Medium phenolic notes that take on a bit of a rotten vegetable character. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium to medium high carbonation. Low, but present astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, an alright beer. The phenolic note isn’t good and definitely has a rotting vegetable character and spice to it. Flavor is better, but is still off in the finish. As it warms the vegetable spice goes away a bit.
CLW (17000) reviewed En Garde, Connards! from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
750 ml bottle purchased at Julio’s Liquors. Batch 0779 on label. Clear brown color with plenty of carbonation with full white head. Aroma is earthy grain, weak citrus and some yeast.
Honestly the flavor is exactly a carbon copy of the aroma. Lots of bread-like malt with an earthy spice in the finish. The alcohol in a beer under 7 % I don’t ever notice anymore. This is pretty nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from AirForceHops. Nice reddish color, 11 finger head creamy with some sticky lacing. Smells really good. spice is nice, good yeasty aroma. Good mouthfeel, intense bitterness for the style and a little musty mold taste with a bit of wheat body and some pear fruits.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed En Garde, Connards! from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 10/24/15.
Rich amber-colored body shows good clarity and a sienna colored head that is medium-sized and slow to fade.
Dried cherries, plums, vanilla, toffee and a touch of citric and malic acid-like character. Good richness of malt, the toffee and caramel being deep but not overdone or sweet. Biscuits, light brown bread and red fruits on the end give both dryness and fruity playfulness, while no alcohol comes through, nor flaw.
Fruitiness and breadiness up front with some soft vanilla and caramel emerging through the middle, with esters and light phenolic spiciness as well. Wonderfully carbonated and a malty, yet also slight biscuity/bready texture. Qutie dry overall, though there is malt richness felt at points, as well as light acidity and fruitiness to balance this. Incredibly well-done BdG and quite well-done to-style in an era where brewers call any malt-forward mid-gravity amber Belgian a Biere de Garde. Mystic is really on a tear lately...