Oxtoberfest
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Autumn|
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6.78
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Smoked Bière de Garde
Smoked farmhouse ale brewed with German malts.
Smoked farmhouse ale brewed with German malts.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours murky amber into a willi. White head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface. Sour smoke aromas. Thick with earthy smoke, tart berry and brown bread front to back. Medium length sweet honey finish.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2025
at 22:10
6/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at ChurchKey. Clear gold, off-white head. Light malt, floral notes, fruity, hoppy, some campfire.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Feb 2024
at 23:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample at the Portland tasting room. Clear dark orange color with a thin off-white head that recedes quickly to a sparse outer ring. Spotty lacing. Aroma of smoked malt, fruit and yeast. Medium body with flavors of smoky malt, fruit, yeast and a bit of hops. The finish is smokey with a caramel malt and fruit ripe fruit aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2017
at 15:12
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
This has a pronounced smoke, but also some fairly sweet malts, and a phenolic sticky character. Ok with the smoke, but otherwise have no idea what they're trying to do here.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2017
at 16:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Chow. Pours a cloudy orange with medium off white head. The aroma is yeast, floral, spice. Medium body, spice, earth, nice sweetness, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2016
at 21:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pretty amber-orange color, clear, with lace. Wild bretty nose, some smoke, apple, grapefruit. Fruity flavor, grapefruit, light smoke, a bit of caramel. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2016
at 21:26
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Beer Street, Brooklyn tap: pours amber with a white head. Aroma is bacon, malts, caramel. Taste is not at smoky but hets smoky at the finish. Taste is complex and pretty weird. Kind of candy like flavor in some sense. Nice and yeasty. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 23:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Prohibition Pig, Waterbury, VT.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a moderately semi-dark hazy ruddy brown color with no head nor lacing (bar pour, so I’m not worried).
The smell started off with big malty, but not overly sweet, smokiness. A light contour of meatiness runs in to balance nicely.
The taste copies the aroma nicely adding a nice little kick of earthy to musty flavor coincides nice enough to balance nicely. Earthy malt in the aftertaste runs into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body with a light sessionable malty alcohol quality about it on my tongue.
Overall, nice Bier de Garde, I’d have again.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a moderately semi-dark hazy ruddy brown color with no head nor lacing (bar pour, so I’m not worried).
The smell started off with big malty, but not overly sweet, smokiness. A light contour of meatiness runs in to balance nicely.
The taste copies the aroma nicely adding a nice little kick of earthy to musty flavor coincides nice enough to balance nicely. Earthy malt in the aftertaste runs into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body with a light sessionable malty alcohol quality about it on my tongue.
Overall, nice Bier de Garde, I’d have again.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Oct 2015
at 08:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at rattle couldn’t resist a Maine flight. Reddish copper pour. Nose is smoke and spice. Tate of soaked bread, some currants, rum spice, caramel and more smoke than I would have thought. Pleasant interesting brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2015
at 17:44