Leelanau Good Harbor Golden
Leelanau Good Harbor Golden
Rated 3.275 by BeerPals
Brewed by Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
Dexter, MI, United States
Style: Biere de Garde
7.5% Alcohol by Volume
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A Franco-Belgian inspired bière de garde by The Leelanau Brewing Company.<br> A Bière de Garde style golden- (literally, a beer for keeping)<br> *Not exactly fitting this profile of 'bière de Garde', it can be classified better as a Michigan Bière de Garde or Leelanau Bière de Garde.<p> <b>Taste Profile:</b><br> A smooth and delicious ale with a great hop balance and subtle fruit notes. Complex, yet restrained bitters compose clean tropical fruits and faint herbal nuances that dance among mellow undertones of malt and distinctive yeast, finishing with signature cellar notes of French oak.<p> <b>Food Pairing:</b><br> For a symphony of flavors serve with cassoulet, rack of lamb, and roast poultry dishes. Good Harbor Golden is sublime with most everything from the classic French culinary repertoire. Good Harbor Golden’s hearty flavor works well with spicy curry dishes and spicy sausages. Sensational with washed-rind cheeses.<p> <b>Serving Suggestions:</b><br> Before serving, keep bottle upright and undisturbed. Serve at cellar temperature in a tulip glass or oversized wine glass.<br> Cellar upright in a cool dark place.
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| Overall Rank | 13211 |
| Overall Percentile | 76.2 |
| Style Rank | 70 of 211 |
| Style Percentile | 66.8 |
| Lowest Score | 4.1 |
| Highest Score | 4.1 |
| Average Score | 4.100 |
| Weighted Score | 3.275 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
A softer pour produces an almost three-finger thick, pale, off-white colored head. The beer is a light honey / gold color that shows a hazy, straw-gold color when held up to the light. The head leaves a layered lacing pattern on the sides of my glass as I work my way through this beer. The aroma has a bright, grassy grain character to it, a certain soft mustiness and even a hint of something like barnyard funk (though only the beginning stages of this last). Fruit aromatics of pear and tart, slightly under-ripe plum also play a significant role as does some floral and herbal aromatics that add a nice edge to the nose. This has quite a complex nose to it that makes this quite interesting and quite enjoyable to smell.
Still well carbonated, despite losing a quarter of its contents en route to me (which really means it must have started out excessively carbonated). The carbonation provides a nice textural component as well as accenting a peppery note that adds to the overall spiciness of this brew. This is quite spicy too with fermentation derived notes of ginger, white pepper and higher alcohols which all combine to give this brew a sort of piquancy. This has a nice, light tartness to it, but not much in the way of sweetness; the tartness accentuates fruit flavors of pear, melon and a certain character that makes me thing of some floral honey varietal. The higher alcohols provide a touch of heat to the finish at times, almost a bit like a spicy ginger or horse-radish would. This is highly quaffable and in fact drinks lighter than your typical 7.5% abv beer would.
This is a very enjoyable brew, I wouldn't really characterize it as a Bier de Garde, but many of Jolly Pumpkin's style designations are by inspiration only anyway. Still this is quite a tasty brew, one which I am happily quaffing. This doesn't seem to have anything beyond a normal Belgian yeast strain funkiness to it (despite the notes in the nose), though it is certainly a characterful strain at the very least.
