Bière De Mars
27 Nov
Name – Bière De Mars
Country – United States
Type – Bière De Garde
Appearance – Pours a very cloudy orange color with a big, bubbly head that disappears very quickly right in front of your eyes.
Smell – You pick up the brett immediately along with some sour apple notes.
Taste – Brett, yeast, sour apple, cherries and little bit of hops.
I had never heard of the style Bière De Garde before but when I saw that it uses brett in it that it must be a sour beer. I noticed that the bottle said it was bottled in October 2008 so it is already a year old for me. I’m thinking that may be why the sour notes were not as powerful as say Bam Bière. I enjoyed it as I do with everything Ommegang does but I think unless the sour notes died down because of the aging that I’ll stick with Jolly Pumpkin if I want a straight up sour ale.
Overall Grade – B-
I actually cultured the yeast out of this beer and used in my christmas brew.
I like omegang, but this one let me down a bit.
My next podcast will be all about the funk! We’re going to be including this one, along with Nøgne-Ø Tyttebaer, JP oro de Calabaza, duchessic, reinart wild, New belgium Bier de Mars, and maybe a couple others. Can’t wait! I wonder if I’ll have the same thoughts as you guys one this beer.
Nate, you should write a post on the yeast cultivation from commercial bottles. I’d love to learn.
I’m really starting to like the sour ales lately but can’t find enough of them here. We don’t get a full line of JP here, I have to travel a couple hours to get a good selection of them. And I don’t really know who else makes them but I look forward to seeing what you think of these ones Pete.