Birds Fly South Ale Project

Microbrewery in Greenville, South Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Birds Fly South Ale Project - Out of business

Established in 2016

Closed in 2023

Contact
1320 Hampton Ave, Greenville, SC, 29601, United States
Description
PROGRESSIVELY OLD SCHOOL
We make craft beer with a throwback approach. Through a combination of time-tested brewing/blending methods and modern practices, we create beer that is complex, thought-provoking, and above all delicious.

AN ALE PROJECT
We focus on truly slow beer – mainly Farmhouse Ales and Saisons in our wild brewery and lagers on our clean production side – with a passion for experimenting with other wild and traditional styles from Imperial Stouts to IPAs to Dutch Kuits.

ROOTED IN FAMILY
The name Birds Fly South is a nod to founders Lindsay and Shawn Johnson. For the last 22+ years, they lived the Coast Guard life, migrating across the country. Their family, their flock, was always looking to find their back to the south. Once they landed in Greenville, Shawn’s final station, they knew they had found home.

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5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Hazy amber color, thick white head. Spicy bread aroma. Flavor is crisp with spicy rye taste and good dose of hops. A little sweet at the finish.
Tried on 18 Oct 2020 at 19:06

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Peach color with a woody aroma. Wine and sweet peach flavor with sour acid and a hint of dry funk at the end.
Tried on 01 Oct 2020 at 23:14


7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
SUper crisp and clear amber, copper and pure orange coloured body with some nice effervescence and a thin layer of just off-white head on top, not even a single centimetre tall! Aroma of grass, bright caster sugar, yeast, bananas, curacao, coriander seed and some very mild tropical fruit notes and fructose. Light to barely Medium-bodied; Very crisp, dry malts show at first with a slightly grassy and very perfumey hop characteristic that shows a light astringency and subdued bitterness with a kick of soft fruits and sugars at the tail end with a very crisp, almost saison-like finish with the coriander seed, wheat, yeast and especially banana and curacao notes showing through everything. Aftertaste is very robust and perhaps less like an IPA and way more like a dry saison, but effective, regardless. Overall, a nice beer with some very mild hops, not much of which are bitter, but a proper balance, dryness and deep complexities make this worth trying to find and sample fresh, like I did! Nice to try from South Carolina, as this is the first I've seen from the brewery! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from the Department of Beer and Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 21-August-2020 for US$3,23 sampled at my house here in Washington on 05-September-2020.
Tried from Can on 10 Sep 2020 at 06:04

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Shelton Festival. Pours a hazy orange with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is peach flesh, funk, oak. Medium body, light funk, wood, tart peach, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2020 at 04:37

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Shelton Festival. Pours a pale gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is floral, earth, rye, oak, yeast. Medium body, oak, grape, yeast, light tartness, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2020 at 04:35

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Shelton Festival. Pours a cloudy gold with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is brett, yeast, floral, citrus. Medium body, brett, citrus, earth, light dry finish, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2020 at 07:36

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at Hunah Day. Pours a hazy yellow with medium white head. The aroma is floral, yeast, citrus. Medium body, lemon zest, yeast, light dry finish, very good.
Tried from Draft on 24 Aug 2020 at 06:03

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 7
On tap at Hunah Day. Pours a hazy orange gold with small white head. The aroma is wheat, sea salt, rhubarb. Thin body, wheat, muted fruit, salty finish, decent.
Tried from Draft on 24 Aug 2020 at 06:00

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at Hunah Day. Pours a hazy orange with small white head. The aroma is floral, stone fruit, brett, oak. Thin body, tart apricot, funky, light oak, very good.
Tried from Draft on 24 Aug 2020 at 05:58