The Château
de Garde Brewing in Tillamook, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.28
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The Château is a four year blend of spontaneously fermented and aged barrels, with an average total age of approximately 29 months in oak. After tasting, blending, transferring and bottling, the beer was further conditioned in bottles for approximately 5 more months.
All of our favorite multi-year blends have a notable Brettanomyces funk to them, but each individual composition expresses its own unique personality. As a rather old composition, this beer leans in a much funkier direction. Mineral and earth characteristics dominate the aroma, with a complexity and intensity matched in the taste. It finishes with a very dry and crisp feel, allowing a lingering impression of the aged barrels and Brett character.
All of our favorite multi-year blends have a notable Brettanomyces funk to them, but each individual composition expresses its own unique personality. As a rather old composition, this beer leans in a much funkier direction. Mineral and earth characteristics dominate the aroma, with a complexity and intensity matched in the taste. It finishes with a very dry and crisp feel, allowing a lingering impression of the aged barrels and Brett character.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pale and hazy. Tart, with a fair bit of barrel character and stone fruit on the nose. Tart, light acidity on the palate, again with pretty nice stone fruit.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2024
at 03:46
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2024. Pours murky yellow with a white head. Aroma has Brett, old wood. Flavour is bitter and sour, some rubbery bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2024
at 23:49
7/10
Sour, somewhat sweet, fruity. Peach and other stone fruit, lime, musty and soft. Nice.
Tried
on 13 Jul 2024
at 16:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours orange. Tangerine, barnyard, grain, lavender, pear, grapefruit rind. Medium body. Great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2024
at 04:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
375ml from Khoury's in Hendo. Month in the fridge. Mojito glass at home. Clear if a touch jellied. Medium gold, tall frothy head, active body. Floral, dank, sweet apricot, Brett nose. Bittersweet, strong orange pith, really heavy oak, lemon, thyme, grass, almond, powdered sugar, peachy finish with moderate astringency. Missing that last note. Frothy, moderate acid, light tartness, in check abv. A bit heavy handed but lots of the flavors & feels I expected. Good.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2024
at 18:20
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Shared with Farees. Appearance: murky straw with a white head. Aroma: nice funk, bold, some minerals. Reminds lambics for sure. Taste: not as good as aroma, quite bitter (from Brett and/or hops?), still bold, but not as complex. Overall: ok. Good try, but requires some work for sure.
Tried
on 10 May 2024
at 00:28
8.4/10
2000th brewery!!
Dry, gueuze like taste....vinegar but solid.
Dry, gueuze like taste....vinegar but solid.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2024
at 17:34
9/10
De garde still got the delicious cheesy Tillamook funk going on, sad to see this small format but whatever works for tavour shipping. Deeply rustic farmy funk, lemony flavor, dry pithy cheesy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2024
at 17:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle) clear, bright yellow color with a medium tall white head; aroma of sourness, wet wood, barnyard; sour and tart flavor with a long, medium bitter and tart finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2024
at 02:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Grapefruit, probably a little of the plastic nimbleprop mentioned, though I like it a little more than he appears to have. Oak hangs out with you for a while in the end, comes off pretty sharp. Golden pour with OK head. Lots of sourness, some astringency in the finish. Unripe orange. Tap at Dominion Wine and Beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Feb 2024
at 21:56