Garden Party
Cascade Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.45
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Garden Party is a blend of sour blond and wheat ales aged in white wine barrels for up to two years with Willamette Valley-grown chardonnay grapes followed by a late infusion of fresh Meyer lemon zest and dried elderflowers. The perfect beverage for any outdoor soirée, Garden Party delivers the sparkle of champagne, the floral delicacy of elderflowers and the brilliance of sweet lemon zest—bringing refinement and refreshment to your party, wherever it may be.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Draught at Mother Kelly's, Bethnal Green, London, 22 Nov 2019) Golden colour, slightly hazy, with brief white head. Fruity, sourish nose with notes of oak wood, white wine, unripe grapes, lemon and elderflower. Fruity, tart, floral taste with oak wood, peaches, lemon, grapes, elderflower and a dry finish with hardly any bitterness. Almost full body, dry. Fresh, fruity, complex and quite tart. Very nice.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2020
at 20:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured from the tap. Cloudy golden orange with minimal white head. Mild garden herbs, elderflower, very light lemon zest, mild tartness, slightly dry finish. Some decent flavours on the palette, but they don’t necessarily comingle successfully. Still decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Mar 2020
at 04:12
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sample from 2017 bottle at Urban Artifact during The Extinction Event: Natural Wine & Spontaneous Beer Fest on 09/28/2019. The beer pours a slightly hazy straw-gold color with a medium thin white head that evaporates steadily to a film. Short strings of lace. Aroma of oak, citrus, yeast and malt. Medium to full body with a vinous oaky character and notes of tart lemon, floral wheat and doughy malt. The finish is tart and oaky with a citrusy aftertaste. Good beer overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2020
at 21:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
8-4-8-4-16
On tap @ What’s Brewing, Stavanger. Pours hazy yellow, with a creamy head. Aroma is tart fruity notes of wine grapes, plums and stone fruits, as well as musty fruit peel and minerals. Medium body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is lactic notes, with hay, rhubarb, currants, grapes and floral notes, as well as musty fruit peel, minerals and wooden notes.
On tap @ What’s Brewing, Stavanger. Pours hazy yellow, with a creamy head. Aroma is tart fruity notes of wine grapes, plums and stone fruits, as well as musty fruit peel and minerals. Medium body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is lactic notes, with hay, rhubarb, currants, grapes and floral notes, as well as musty fruit peel, minerals and wooden notes.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Nov 2019
at 10:29
8/10
A hazed golden ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with loads of Brett, ground cherries, lactic acid, Epsom salts, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with loads of ground cherries, lactic acid, Epsom salts, light Brett, very nice and fruity, yet dry. On tap at Bar Volo.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Oct 2019
at 21:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at 73 Enid Street, 26/09/19. Clear golden with a well presented white cap. Nose is lemon tinged straw, hay bale, light bass funk, toasted grains. Taste comprises pissy citric shreds, funk, barnyard esters, damp cloth, lemon drizzle, light perfume. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close spiked with light herb and a spike of acidity. Decent punchy sour with mellow to rising acidic bite but kept in check.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2019
at 20:50
7/10
Tried
on 20 Sep 2019
at 18:16
9/10
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Sep 2019
at 17:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy, amber, big vinous note, barrel, but maybe a bit raw, some hing, sulphur sort of notes, but that could be the way the elderflower and lemon are coming across because both of them are in there. Tart, has some sweetness, white wine, stone fruits, it’s actually a lot of fun.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2019
at 03:27
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at Cascade, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is very herbal, with fresh basil and who knows what else from the garden, along with lemon zest and floral notes. Flavour is very citric and herbal, with lots of floral notes, lemon zest, and basil. Harsh and lacking integration. This isn't too impressive.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jul 2019
at 07:22