Beau's All Natural Gruit Series: The Astromancer
Beau's All Natural Gruit Series: The Astromancer
Rated 3.280 by BeerPalsBrewed by Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
VanKleek Hill, Ontario, Canada
Style: Spiced Beer
5.7% Alcohol by Volume
20 International Bittering Units
This is a limited edition beer
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Beau’s celebrates International Gruit Day on Feb. 1, 2019 with the release of The Astromancer, a sage gruit. We used a combination of organic whole leaf and rubbed sage in brewing The Astromancer to draw out both herbal character and essential sage flavours. Rye malts add a peppery spice that complements the herbal component of this ancient ale. History & Style In gruit ales, herbs, spices and other botanicals replace a dominant hop character, throwing open the door to experimentation. Sage takes its place alongside yarrow and bog myrtle in the ancient history of spicing and helping to naturally preserve European gruit ales. The beer name draws on the fantasy character of a magician or astrologer, and plays on the double meaning of sage as a type of wise wizard, as well as brewing gruits being a kind of ancient wisdom. The artwork is in a slightly organic, art deco style using sage green to highlight the key ingredient. Tasting Notes The Astromancer pours mahogany with a tan foam. The aroma bursts with herbal sage. The flavour features sweet caramel malt with peppery spice notes and minty sage. The finish is spicy and dry. INGREDIENTS Local spring water, organic barley and rye malts, organic buckwheat, organic oats, organic sage, organic hops, brewer's yeast. MALTS Pale ale, rye, caraaroma (all organic) HOPS Organic perle YEAST German ale yeast
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| Overall Rank | 12014 |
| Overall Percentile | 78.4 |
| Style Rank | 235 of 1281 |
| Style Percentile | 81.7 |
| Lowest Score | 3.6 |
| Highest Score | 3.8 |
| Average Score | 3.700 |
| Weighted Score | 3.280 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
600ml bottle. Pours a huge thick and frothy beige head and has a dark amber coppery appearance. Leaves some thick dirty lacing behind. Slightly excessive carbonation. Aromas of earthy and herbal hops, mild peppery notes, some light caramel and toasted malt. Flavours are full of gruit, spice and herbs, sage, some light pepper, subtle toasted malt, kind of a various vegetable like taste in the finish. Somewhat of a bitter dry like mouthfeel. I find their gruit series to be sometimes hit or miss, but this one is firmly middle ground. Quite good but don't see myself following it up with another.
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
First brew from Beau's Febrewary 2019 at Pints & Quarts. Hazy, deep amber colour with a beige head on the creamy side, just as the lacing is after a good retention. Beautiful spices in the nose, reminding me of well-blended ginger and cinnamon. The taste shows these spicy notes as well. A little stronger, but still well-balanced. This is where the sage starts showing a slight more with the leafy notes. The mouthfeel is nicely dry with almost a mintiness that is refreshing. I love sage, so you got me in the one. I love stuffing, and sage is the master. I love that Beau's has balls to do a beer with this. Great spiciness to warm us up on this big snow storm that is upon us.
