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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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample at the roost pours a clear burnt gold with some white head. Nose has lemon rind, funk, neutral barrel. A little plastic. You can tell it's new world. Flavor nears authentic but there is a residual sweetness that isn't right and doesn't even remind of Boon. Sourness and funk are both dialed back. Some bandaid but whelming at best. Finishes medium bodied, lightly creamy and the malt oddly shows up. Weird. Maybe bottle treatments are better?
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jan 2024
at 23:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from the tap. Cloudy gold with small white head. Funky, but very muddled, dry oak, feint phenols. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Sep 2023
at 03:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 750 ml at LKBF, 2023. Cloudy golden with white head. Funky, fruity, oak, some citrus, grapes, medium sourness. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2023
at 17:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Ale Arsenal. Pours light orange-gold with a pristine white collar that leaves a ring throughout. Moderately sour fruit with solid tartness. Moderate mustiness. Flavor picks up the barrel and presents solid funk.
Tried
on 21 May 2023
at 20:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught, taster. @Mikkeller Viktoriagade, Copenhagen (Denmark). 03/05/2023 [#6.122 Global - #934 United States of America - #4 De Garde Brewing] Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma: white grapes must, learher, oak and brett. Taste: grapes must, oak, earthy funk and phenols. Vinous. Next one please!
Tried
on 15 May 2023
at 07:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A slightly hazy golden beer with a white head. Aroma of tart grapes, grape skin, brett, apples. Taste of sour grapes, brett, apples, grape skin, yeast.
Tried
on 09 May 2023
at 17:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ Mikkeller, Viktoriagade. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is dry, malty, wood, citrus and barnyard. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate acidic. Dry and moderate acidic finish. 030523
Tried
from Draft
on 03 May 2023
at 19:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, 🇩🇰 Viktoriagade 8BC, kld., Copenhagen, DK-1655 Denmark.
[ As De Garde The Château ].
ABV: 5.5%. Clear medium orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, tart, moderate yeasty, barrel, apple, funk, stone fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, wheat, tart, apple, fruity yeast, brett, funky, oak, barrel, stone fruit, medium dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20230503]
7-3-7-4-15
Tried
on 03 May 2023
at 19:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Lys brun lett tåkete med hvitt skum. Lukter bondegård, eddik og noe svovel. Middels fylde. Sur. Smaker fyrstikk, sure bær, eddik og bondegård. Middels lang.
Tried
on 15 Apr 2023
at 16:59
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Ridgewood, pours a mostly clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is somewhat muddled, with earthy funk, a little leather, and a touch of oak. Flavour has plenty of phenols, with lots of burnt rubber, earthy funk, some bitterness, and oak. Too much phenolic character despite the nice funk. This is messed up and needs work.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Feb 2023
at 06:36