Schlafly Bière de Garde

This French farmhouse-style ale has tart fruitiness from the yeast and a sweet maltiness from the grains. A modern re-creation of a classic European beer style to celebrate St. Louis’s French heritage. Pairs well with fruits, cheeses, and cured meats. Debuted at the 2007 HOP in the City Festival Beer, unfiltered. Bottles will be filtered and then bottle-conditioned.

3.5

257 reviews

St. Louis, United States

Community reviews

3.5 Split a 750ml bottle. Poured a dark orange color with a medium sized fluffy-white head. Aroma was light spices, light floral notes, some malt notes. Flavor was floral, sweet malt, funky yeast notes.

3.4 Bottle. Hazy orange pour with a big soapy head. Bready, toffee, mild pineapple. Smooth palate. Maybe a touch flat, but not bad.

3.7 Bottle. Hazy dark orange/ amber. Fruity yeast aroma with grains and biscuit. The taste follows adding spiced apple and apricot, rich malts, toffee, and a little lemon. Very complex overall. Interesting style. Good stuff. I’m glad I tried this one.

3.7 I had this at Global Brew. Pours orangish with a white head. Taste sweet, Carmel, bready. I thought this was good. I could drink this again.

2.7 From old notes, tasted with Curtis and some friends in Nashville, probably some time near the summer of 2012, from a 750mL bottle. Pours cloudy dark orange with an average white head that leaves a thin collar of lace. The nose is pretty strange pumpkin and peanut brittle with a bit of yeast spice. The flavor is more or less the same, a touch of sweet peanut brittle toffee, a fruity and somewhat vegetal pumpkin, and some yeast spice. The body is full with average, stinging carbonation, and a long lightly sweet peanut brittle finish.

3.1 16oz growler pours a hazy pineapple orange with some creamy, swirling white head. Nose has quite a bit of bubblegum and clove, some tropical fruit too, some candy, some straw. Flavor is candy sweet, some mango, some dried pineapple chunks, bubblegum, a little anise too. Sticky finish. I get that the style is a bit of a catch all, but this had way to much wit character for me. I was expecting something with a bit more of a malt backbone and more subdued yeast components.

3.5 A light amber color with a white head. Aroma contains some caramel, citrus, and skittles. The flavor is malty with a bittersweet finish. I just taste some caramel, biscuit, lemon. Its refreshing and complex. I dig it.

1.9 Bottle: Poured a clear deep orangey color ale with a small foamy head with minimal retention and no lacing. Aroma of grainy cereal notes with quite a bit of residuals sugars. Taste is also a mess with an overload of residual sugars and some grainy cereal notes with some funny ester. Body is semi-full with medium-to-low carbonation. Incredible mess with a definite lack of attenuation.

4.2 Bottled with love on 22812, so I’m sure this one has gotten the requisite time to "meld together nicely", as per its own claim. 25.4oz, just a crown. Nose is sweet and floral, vanilla and cream, pale malt, very nice and dessert-like, faint fruit with smooth and really nice yeast. Some great jammy fruit, also strong phenols that are pushing toward solvent a bit too quickly. Pours clear, deep red with orange low-lights around the edges, supports a dense and foamy beige head with above-average carbonation. Taste is sweet, jammy fruit with low bitterness, average sweetness; not really tart or tangy, but waves of developed and layered malt; faint spicy character within the pleasant and calm breadiness; alcohol fully tamed except for the slow-developing warmth in the chest. Hay, lightly floral, faint citrus, and just incredible balance! Very light body but isn’t watery, malt is too well advanced for that. Yeast here is very much like that of one of my favorites, Unibroue, as is the fruitiness. Smooth and lovely, what a wonderful surprise!

3.1 Bottle from Finger Lakes Beverage Co. (best beer store in Upstate NY, IMHO). Farmhouse nose: lots of hay and straw, freshness. Gorgeous appearance, hazy and not too filtered. Banana and hoppy notes, tastes like a boozy saison.

3.2 Bottle sample at a tasting at Mastikim. Thanks beerandbeyond. Pours orange to brown with a nice head, aroma of honey, caramel, toffee, alcohol, brandy, flavor of malt, caramel, toffee, honey and brandy, medium bodied.

2.9 Strong nose and mild taste. Pours a murky orange color. probably wouldn’t buy again but worth trying.

3.7 Draft: Hazy golden yellow with a small white head. Slightly funky..pear aroma. Sweet apple, pear, lactic flavour. Very nice!

3.5 1 pt. 9.4 fl.oz. bottle @ One Pint Pub. Pours murky amber with a low head. Aroma is sour malts with some yeast. Flavor is sour malts and some yeast. Very nice.

3.6 Draft. Lactic lemon malt aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head. Sweet milky lemon malt and hay flavor. Very nice.

3.9 750 ml bottle poured into a teku. Pours a clear copper with a white head of foam. The aroma is really pretty malty and earthy. Not much in the way of a hop profile. The taste is woody and sweet. Medium body and medium carbonation.

3.4 Rated on 12-02-2009 (Bottle) This beer pours a large frothy off-white head with a short retention, transparent gold body, slow rising carbonation, and one ring of lacing. The Aroma is malty, slightly yeasty, sweet, tart, and fruity. The Taste is sweet, sour, tart, malty, fruity, and has a short dry finish. The Palate is tingly and this is a medium bodied beer. Overall, this beer is quaffable, worth trying and a beer I would consider drinking again.

2.8 Bottle sample at a tasting at Mastikim. Thanks beerandbeyond. Deep orange-amber color. Aroma of malt, caramel, some fruitiness, cookie notes and light yeasty notes. Sweetish flavor, malty, fruity, a bit caramelly, with light sourness, yeast and some spiciness, especially in the finish. Medium-bodied. So-so.

3.7 750ml bottle pours a copper orange with a large white head. Sweet caramel malts aroma. Apple spice with pear taste. Great beer.

3.5 Elle est belle, orangée, limpide, une mousse la recouvre et prends son temps pour se résorber. Elle devient trouble au second versage. Du malt, du sucre d’orge, des fruits; de la poire et de la pêche font office d’odeurs. Un goût de levure, de poivre, avec un côté sucré et ce n’est pas mémorable. La minceur est inattendue. ce qui reste en bouche, c’est le côté poivré, amalgamé au sucre. Je ne sais pas trop quoi en penser? Elle n’est pas remarquable, elle semble même artificielle. (854-111013)

3.7 750 ml bottle from Blue Dog Lansdale, Whole Foods PM. Pours hazy dark straw with off-white head. Nose is caramel malt, yeasty tart fruit, mild funk and hopcitrus. Finishes cobwebby estery, dry, and funky.

3.5 Draft to taster. Looks good for the style; a slightly cloudy golden orange with foamy off-white head that steadily dissipates into lacing. Smells sweet and yeasty with a bit of tartness. Tastes like it smells with a bit of spices and an average mouthfeel. Not bad.

3.4 750 ml bottle. Cloudy orange amber color with a small beige head. Nice clinging lace. Fragrant toasted malt aroma with notes of cinnamon and coconut. Tangy toasted malt flavor is redolent of tropical fruit and sweet caramel. Light floral hops balance the residual malty sweetness. Sweet cloying malt in finish and aftertaste.

3.5 No bottling information. Appearance: The body is a dark amber with poor clarity. The head is dense and rather tall, but dissipates rather quickly into a bubbly light tan coating. Aroma: The aroma is malty and a bit musky, I’m guessing this is old. I am smelling hints of fruitiness, but it’s hard to discern, perhaps orange and strawberry with a hint of bubblegum. Taste: Banana and strawberry are prominent with big malts of caramel and a cereal sweetness. Dried fig is noticed towards the finish with a light peppery spice that’s strongest by the finish. Palate: Medium bodied with moderate to high carbonation. Overall: I enjoy this, but it’s certainly a bit older than it probably should be. I would love to try this fresh and see how the malts interact with the fruitiness and spiciness of this.

3.6 Bottle 750 ml Aroma: caramel, tartness, fresh hop fell. Slight mineral vibe to it. Refreshing with authentic feel to it. 7+ Appearance: poured murky amber in color with larger off white cap. Sparse lacing.3+ Palate / Taste: Softer front, bready malts, hint of caramel. Some vanilla like hints. Sweeter finish. Nice dinner table choice.

3.3 Bouteille de 75 cl. embouteillée le 19 décembre 2012, bue en compagnie de SlovakSniper. Bière dorée foncée à la limite du ambrée. Au nez des notes de caramel, de fruits et d’épices. En bouche le liquide a une belle texture huileuse, les saveurs épicées sont agréables mais un peu trop sucré. Agréable.

3.2 Un flacon de 75 cl. Un liquide embouteillé avec amour le 19 décembre 2012. Une robe ambrée. Un anneau de mousse. Un nez de caramel fruité et de grains roux avec un léger parfum suret et presque épicé. Un goût légèrement granuleux mais aussi doucement malté avec des fruits pâles et quelque chose d’épicé qui peut sans doute être attribuable aux levures. Une touche herbeuse comme un signe évident des houblons. Une bouche de moyenne densité avec un pétillement vers le bas et une texture à la limite huileuse. Une finale plutôt sèche et faiblement épicée.

3.3 Poured from a brown bottle. Murky orange brown color, nice white head, good lacing. Slight sour, bitter, farmhouse smell. slight breaded taste, fruit taste.

3.9 The aroma is lightly reminiscent of sweet dough yeast and sour fruit, and the appearance is a cloudy orange color with a small head. The taste is mildly sour and mildly sweet, which creates a nice balanced flavor, and the palate fuses a medium body, thin and slick texture, soft carbonation, and a sour and slightly astringent finish.

3.6 750 mL bottle from Beer Run. Pours a hazy copper color with a thin creamy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of toffee, caramel, earthy notes and a dry fruitiness. The taste is bready malts, caramel, herbal hops, mild spice. Medium bodied.