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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5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Hay and tart lemon nose. Crystal clear amber, medium head. Dishwater, hay. Medium body, easy carbonation. Not tart, not very flavorful either. Drinks like a mild golden ale.

Tried on 28 Jan 2021 at 00:12


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

Orange and grass nose. Clear amber, medium head. Tinny orange. Medium body, easy carbonation.

Tried on 31 Dec 2020 at 00:45


7

Dark gold pour. Thin foam. Lemongrass nose with hint of citrus. Citrus orange/lemon flavor with buttery flavored palate. Easy carbonation.

Tried on 31 Dec 2020 at 00:42


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

Bottle from weihenweizen: pours orange with white head. Aroma is bretty funk and a light fruitiness. Taste is sweet, earthy, bretty, tunky. Almost metallic minerally finish. Brett is powerful, almost harsh.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Nov 2020 at 00:11


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

10-24-20

Tried on 25 Oct 2020 at 02:55


7
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pale yellow with little foam. Sour acid aroma. Flavor is moderate sour acid with a sweet, crisp finish. Nice balance, not too sour with just enough hop and sweetness.

Tried on 18 Oct 2020 at 19:33


5.8
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
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
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