UPDATED: OCT 27, 2018 Bottle at last night's share. Classic wild ale notes on this one, typical De Garde format, which isn't a bad thing. Aroma brings the requisite tartness and a little fruity sweetness. Taste amps up the tartness a bit but it's still pretty silky smooth, another great one from de garde.

Bottle @ Endelig Share thanks to Niels. Pours light hazy orange with a small white head. Aromas of green apples, cognac, peaches, booze, vanilla. Taste has lactic acid, booze, caramel, apples, vinous, oak, citrus, lemony, light bready.

Aroma: Red Wine, Cognac, Mild Hay... Appearance: Reddish Hue, Passes Some Light, Thin White Head Ring, Mild Lacing... Taste: Bitter Red Wine, Hay, Cognac... Mouthfeel: Decent Carbonation, Medium Bodied, Mildly Bitter, Mildly Drying

Draft. Hazy orange pour with tan head. Funky, fruit, wine, cognac, tart aromas. Flavors are tart funk, cognac, wine, and fruit tones.

Due to artificial lighting, arbitrary rating for Appearance Flowery and fruity nose, lemon. Dry lemony flavour, very tart, lactic². Very carbonated, near fizzy. Long lasting acidic flavours. Again one that is actually too sharp and hence at the edge of unidimensionality. Txs to M & L V!

From notes (7/11/16). Bottle split with a friend who muled this down from Vermont. This was my first De Garde, and I was blown away. It’s extremely tart, but that sourness is balanced brilliantly by the complexity of the oak and the some great fruit flavors from the Brett. Really well executed.

750mL thanks to brainlair! Into teku glass. Low haze amber color with good foam dwindling down to a white ring of bubbles. Nose has candied mango, lemon zest, small rustic grain. Flavor is quite salty - big lemon citric character. Prickly carbonation, mild acetic acid/vinegar. Harsh acidity keeps piling on. Big disappointment after their epic Melange d’Hiver.

Bottle at Jason’s with friends. Pour is slightly murky orange with a small white head that quickly dissipated. Big green apples, pears, some lemon, light biscuit, bready, and tangy aroma. Taste is big tangy, lemon zest, orange, bready, pears and green apples with a big sour finish. Medium body with high carbonation. Not bad.

Bottle at RB Best, 31/01/16. Golden orange with a decent off white head. Nose is tangy orange, bitter citrics, funky wood, pissoi. Taste comprises tarte orange, sublte brandy barrel, funk, wood must, light spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, puckering rinse and acidic bite on the close. Decent sour.

Pour at De garde anniversary party. pours out a hazy gold topped with a small fizzy head. nose is cognac sweetness some lemon funk citrus and grapes. taste is more of the cognac forward oak some fruit and funk.