Avant Gourde

Elysian Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸

Collab with: The Lost Abbey
Other Regular Out of Production

Score

6.77

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IBU: -

Ticks: 5

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.

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7.2

andrewje41 (7962) reviewed Avant Gourde from Elysian Brewing 11 years ago

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

bhensonb (22605) reviewed Avant Gourde from Elysian Brewing 11 years ago

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

solidfunk (21946) reviewed Avant Gourde from Elysian Brewing 13 years ago

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

fiulijn (28382) reviewed Avant Gourde from Elysian Brewing 13 years ago

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.

Tried from Can on 28 Jan 2013 at 16:36

6.1

mcberko (47456) reviewed Avant Gourde from Elysian Brewing 13 years ago

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