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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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Big and funky barrel notes with some petrol. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Bitter and funky white grape notes. Solid.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2019
at 16:45
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
750ml bottle thanks to Steve pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is great big funky notes barnyard some citrus notes and those bugs. Taste is more of the nice funky bugs some cheese and barrel. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2019
at 15:39