Avant Gourde
Elysian Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: The Lost AbbeySpiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.77
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Avant Gourde is a pumpkin biere de garde fermented with our house lager yeast and spiced with cinnamon, mace and clove. We brewed it in collaboration with Lost Abbey/Port Brewing, and brewmaster Tomme Arthur himself came up to hang out and brew with us on Capitol Hill. Later we went out on Howard’s boat. Avant Gourde was brewed with pale, Munich, C-45 and C-77 Crisp crystal and chocolate malt, with brown sugar in the boil, along with Magnum hops to bitter and flavor and Czech Saaz to finish.
Editor’s Note: This version does not have Brett like the Lost Abbey version. That has a separate listing.
Editor’s Note: This version does not have Brett like the Lost Abbey version. That has a separate listing.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft pour at beer authority. Pours a deep, dark red color with a fading patchy head. A bit of a vegetable aroma, with a ton of spice. Interesting pumpkin beer here. A lot of spice up front, then mellows down to a nice mellow pumpkin flavor. Two good breweries coming together for a good beer. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Oct 2014
at 21:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours hazy dark ruddy copper with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is sort of cooked squash with spice (but not really pie spice). Med body. Flavor is lightly spicy, rather malty, and squash seems present. Takes a bit of getting used to. Definitely not a pumpkin pie beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Oct 2014
at 13:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Not a huge pumpkin fan but this is ok. Pours reddish clear. Low carbonation. Aroma of pumpkin and malt, nutmeg. Finishes sweet. Tap at blue monk.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Feb 2013
at 21:43
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Dark amber color, hazy, with creamy head. Nice aroma of caramel. Good body strength; very good caramel flavor, powerful; strong bitterness; there is some candi sugar, moderate residual sweetness, and some pleasant but mild yeast character, some earthy touch too in the end; long final.
Bold and solid brew.
Dark amber color, hazy, with creamy head. Nice aroma of caramel. Good body strength; very good caramel flavor, powerful; strong bitterness; there is some candi sugar, moderate residual sweetness, and some pleasant but mild yeast character, some earthy touch too in the end; long final.
Bold and solid brew.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jan 2013
at 16:36
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Tangle Town, pours a clear copper with a small beige head. Aroma and flavour of mild pumpkin spices like many others, with nutmeg and cinnamon, along with some brown sugar. Fairly boring stuff, though nothing offensive. OK.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Dec 2012
at 22:10