#220 Flying Dog - Garde Dog

This is another beer mail directly from Flying Dog brewery. Garde Dog is a Biere De Garde style of beer, a light French style beer related to the Belgium Saison. This is Flying Dog's spring seasonal beer, and here is a video from Flying Dog about this beer.

This beer has a slight yeast smell, but not much overall aroma. The apprentice is yellow and clear. The head is low, just covering the edges of the beer.

There is a slight malt taste to this beer with some toasted notes. This is a dry beer, a change from other beers with pretty much no sweetness. There is no noticeable hops in the flavor, a change from other Flying Dog beers. There is some yeast taste, but not yeast sediment in the beer. The mouthfeel is thin, and the finish is dry.

I'm not very impress with this beer. Just not a huge amount of flavor, and it is really quite dry.
I guess for a light tasting spring time beer this works.