de Garde Brewing is a

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based in

Tillamook Tillamook may refer to: Places: * Tillamook County, Oregon, United States * Tillamook, Oregon, a city, the seat of Tillamook County * Tillamook River, United States * Tillamook Bay, a bay in the northwestern part of Oregon * Tillamook Head, a natu ...

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. de Garde is one of very few breweries in the United States to use all

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, in which beer in a

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takes in wild yeasts from the air; the beer is then aged, sometimes with fruit added, in foeders. In 2016, they won the fifth best brewery in the world award from

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, and were named the best brewer in Oregon.

History

The brewery was started by a husband and wife, Trevor Rogers and Linsey (Hamacher) Rogers. Trevor had been working as an Assistant Manager at Pacific City's Pelican Brewing, and Linsey worked for the Tilllamook Cheese Factory. They started the brewery out of their garage in Tillamook, and sought to brew using wild yeasts from the coastal air. Trevor tried placing

wort Wort () is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. Wort contains the sugars, the most important being maltose and maltotriose, that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol. Wort als ...

samples along the Oregon Coast to determine the best location for spontaneous fermentation; Tillamook won out. As demand grew, they moved production facilities to several different places within Tillamook. Their production facility is currently located at 114 Ivy Ave in Tillamook.

Beers

de Garde's flagship beer is Bu Weisse, a 2%

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Berliner weiss. The also offer a rotating list of wild ales — lambics,

gueuze Gueuze (Dutch ''geuze'', ; French ''gueuze'', ) is a type of lambic, a Belgian beer. It is made by blending young (1-year-old) and old (2- to 3-year-old) lambics, which is bottled for a second fermentation. Because the young lambics are no ...

s, and krieks similar to those you would find in Belgium. On-premises sales account for 95% of their bottle sales, and they rarely sell kegs outside the tasting room. Most of their beers are produced in quantities of fewer than 1,000 bottles.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.degardebrewing.com/ Beer brewing companies based in Oregon Tillamook, Oregon