De Garde large format bottles

What do you mean by "large"? Like 1.5 L and bigger?

 

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I scored a grand rouge a couple weeks ago.

 

The first swing top 3L was released at the original tasting room grand opening back in Sept 2013 (Rougie, Soleil d'Or and Loak Bean). There was several months where no other 3L bottles were released. There could have been a couple from the May 2014 party, but I'm not sure of that. I know that by July 2014, they were bottling 3L bottles again (I had a bottle of Desay l'Orange that was released in 750's on 7/26/14). After that, the release of 3L bottles was fairly regular, maybe every couple weeks to a month. Usually with very little or no announcements on a non-new-release day. I think there were typically three 3L bottles made, although not all were sold. Some were opened at parties and some donated to Brews for New Avenues. Cost was typically $90-125.

Last year in the fall, they switched to 1.5L corked and capped bottles. So beers like The Peach and The Purple from the November 4th quarter party were sold at some point in 1.5 format. I don't think they've sold any 3L since switching over.

 

Forget that big silly bottle, I just want what comes in that brown wood coffin there in the background!

 

Magnums generally aren't available, as far as I know.