Garde Dog
I often find Flying Dog beers hit or miss, I find this somewhere in between. It has some of the nice characteristics of a Biere de Garde, but it is a little too pronounced in flavor in the wrong areas and too light in others. Pours golden with an okay head and lacing. Smells light, herbal, and peppery. The taste is tangy, extremely herbal with a residual medicinal taste of willow bark and quite light beyond those flavors. Crisp and refreshing in the mouth, but the strong herbal and medicinal flavors with no balancing citrus or earthy flavors or pepper makes this a bit unbalanced.