Banded Brewing Company Greenwarden

Greenwarden

 

Banded Brewing Company in Biddeford, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Rotating
Score
6.90
ABV: 5.6% IBU: - Ticks: 14
Inspired by a lore: an ale of mythic proportions. Heroically brewed with Maine-foraged spruce tips replacing flavor and aroma hops. A super refreshing, complex ale with a Maine malt base. Notes of mild evergreen, mint + sweet herb balance out candied fruit flavors- we’ve heard everything from pineapple lifesavers to grape nerds!
 

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7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Wow this beer has traveled the world. Clearish golden orange. Nose is spruce. Tastes of spruce, grapefruit, orange peel, candy, herbal. Spruce tips linger. Decent

Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2022 at 05:15


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5


Cask (gravity) @ #RHBCF2018 🧙‍🍻🇬🇧 [ The 11th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival (The 43th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival) ], The Motorpoint Arena, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.

[ As Banded Greenwarden ].
ABV: 5.6%. ✅ Clear medium orange to yellow colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, spicy - mint, light to moderate hoppy, spruce, herbs, light alcohol - gin like. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, spicy - minty, herbs - herbal, fruit - berry, spruce, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20181017]
6-3-6-3-11

Tried from Cask on 22 Oct 2018 at 11:33


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Gravity cask at the 2018 Nottingham Beer Festival. Aged in a gin cask. Brownish gold with a tiny ring of white head. A lot going on the aroma. Fruity ginny sweetness combines well with the spiciness of the spruce. It tastes even better: sweet and herbal with notes of persimmon and woody resin. This is a great beer and a spot-on cask pairing.

Tried from Cask on 18 Oct 2018 at 14:26


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Nottingham beerfestival. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are fruits, rum?, malt and hops. Sweet finish.

Tried from Cask on 17 Oct 2018 at 16:23


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask @ Nottingham Beer and Cider Festival. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and herbal. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 171018

Tried from Cask on 17 Oct 2018 at 16:21


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

17/10/2018. Cask at the Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival 2018, Nottingham. Pours pale amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of fruit, malt, spruce, light herb and resin. Medium plus sweetness and light to moderate bitterness. Aroma the high point.

Tried from Cask on 17 Oct 2018 at 16:20


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft at the source. Clear golden color white head with solid lacing. Mixed pine aroma. Taste is fresh spruce tree boughs. wow

Tried from Draft on 24 Jul 2018 at 12:00


8

Tried on 04 Oct 2017 at 14:41


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

1 pint can. Pours cloudy to hazy yellow, white head. Aroma is spruce herbal. Floral, spruce and slight sweetness. Lingering floral and fruity. Sweet and spruce finish.

Tried from Can on 30 Jun 2017 at 20:57


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can to becher pint glass, the appearance was a sturdy burnt orange almost copper color with a rim of a little white foamy head that fell off extremely quick. Not much lace.
The aroma had that fresh sprucy/juniper sweet to earthy and grassy sweet to semi-bitter woody sort of herbal quality running over a super light malt base.
The flavor replicated the aroma fairly nice guiding a little bit of dried sweet wood coming in for a decent balance. Sprucy aftertaste with that fresh sort of semi-sweet and woody sort of finish.
The palate was almost medium bodied with a good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt good.
Overall, pretty nice beer all around that seemed good to just end up wanting to sip by a campfire or maybe even staring out into a Spring evening by the lake. Thanks Andrew for the can.

Tried from Can on 22 May 2017 at 22:31