AMA De Garde Brewing

[ForkAndSpoonOperator]

Paging degardebrewing for proof of concept test.

 

[libbey]

What was the beer that inspired you to explore spontaneous fermentation?

 

[jmgrub]

What is your favorite degardebrewing beer so far? Do you ever hang around the gymnasium?

 

[degardebrewing]

What was the beer that inspired you to explore spontaneous fermentation?

3F gueuze. Still my favorite 'shelf' beer that's truly wild. Just great stuff.

 

[degardebrewing]

What is your favorite degardebrewing beer so far? Do you ever hang around the gymnasium?

1) Lee Noir. It has the delicate balance and complexity I prefer while still having an overall assertive character. Great earthy funx. Never going to fare well in an American wild ale lineup as it seems the trend is towards more assertive/aggressive sours, but it's closer to where my taste lies.
2) I lift grain sacks and barrels a lot... In all honesty, I should, but years of commercial fishing make it a bit more painful than I'd like. Getting my lift on with bottle curls. Many reps.

 

[drgarage]

Have you ever had a rougher morning than after Magnum-tiharing Fred from the Wood? If so, how did you survive?

 

[dimensionx]

1) 2) I lift grain sacks and barrels a lot... In all honesty, I should, but years of commercial fishing make it a bit more painful than I'd like. Getting my lift on with bottle curls. Many reps.

So much buffs, so many muscle, so ISO.

 

[degardebrewing]

Have you ever had a rougher morning than after Magnum-tiharing Fred from the Wood? If so, how did you survive?

Yes.
Coffee.

 

[degardebrewing]

So much buffs, so many muscle, so ISO.

So FT?

 

[JulianB]

1) Lee Noir. It has the delicate balance and complexity I prefer while still having an overall assertive character. Great earthy funx. Never going to fare well in an American wild ale lineup as it seems the trend is towards more assertive/aggressive sours, but it's closer to where my taste lies.
2) I lift grain sacks and barrels a lot... In all honesty, I should, but years of commercial fishing make it a bit more painful than I'd like. Getting my lift on with bottle curls. Many reps.

Trevor, I opened one of my bottles of Lee Noir at a big bottle share in Columbia last weekend, and everyone who had it pretty much universally agreed that it was up there with Black Tuesday and Grey Monday for the best beer of the day. It was also the only bottle I popped where multiple people came looking for top-off pours after trying it.

 

[JulianB]

^^^^ Meant Chocolate Rain, not Black Tuesday, but the point still stands.

 

[degardebrewing]

^^^^ Meant Chocolate Rain, not Black Tuesday, but the point still stands.

It's ok. My brain is a little wonky when when I get back from Columbia too...

 

[stakem]

Is there any effort being put forth to seriously consider the cow fart system of grading your beers?
Affixing something to your labels would be beneficial.

Grandma's walking cow farts...
Wet pasture cow fart...
The milks gone bad cow fart...

nomsayin?

 

[JulianB]

It's ok. My brain is a little wonky when when I get back from Columbia too...

When I get back from that Columbia, it's usually my other head that's worse for wear.

 

[Shmeal]

Can I contract more beer from you?

 

[jmgrub]

2) I lift grain sacks and barrels a lot... In all honesty, I should, but years of commercial fishing make it a bit more painful than I'd like. Getting my lift on with bottle curls. Many reps.

 

[degardebrewing]

Is there any effort being put forth to seriously consider the cow fart system of grading your beers?
Affixing something to your labels would be beneficial.

Grandma's walking cow farts...
Wet pasture cow fart...
The milks gone bad cow fart...

nomsayin?

Not a bad idea.
We do struggle with differentiating the different styles of our beer. I mean, they're all fermented with our local yeast and bacteria, but something like our hoppy brews are obviously very different from something like the Lee series. If it says wild on the label though, people expect sour, and a lot of our brew isn't by intention. We may need to write a novel to tell people what to expect and how to treat it.

Honestly, it's been an internal discussion from the beginning, and we just haven't decided how to move forward. So you can continue to look for our janky ass, uninformative, and downright insulting labels for the near future at least.

Or just ask about the cow flatulence for a particular batch.
Imperial Vin Bu has terrific gas. Free range grazing on a kidney bean pasture. Very mature. The extra couple months in barrels beyond the other iterations made it happy. But you've gotta love our funkier Berliners.

Edit: also, with the vagaries of aging wild beer, I'd hate to say that a particular beer is light on the pucky and have someone sit on one for a few years and open a funk bomb.

 

[degardebrewing]

Can I contract more beer from you?

YOU KNOW IM NOT THE BOSS SAM.

 

[degardebrewing]

This just got real awkward. Or awesome.

 

[ASUBeer]

Can you talk about your experience using local vineyards/grapes in your beers. Curious if that is because you love wilds/grapes, really like wine or have access to such great local vineyards. Or all of the above.