De Garde Quarterly Release

Yeah cutting it short

 

We opted not to add the final draft list, and won't be doing so for quarterly releases going forward. We're very sorry for the confusion and for any disappointment. It seems that providing it in the past has led to disappointment. Our goal is to provide the best event possible, and hysteria over any particular beer(s) or failure for it to arrive or make it into rotation plays into that.
Not to mention, many of our guest beers arrived just yesterday or are coming today, making it very difficult to promote.
Going forward, we hope folks will trust that we strive to provide the best options for their drinking pleasure.
I'll say that we have a great list of draft and bottle pours lined up, including some from:
Ale Apothecary
Perrenial
Block 15
Engine House #9

We look forward to hosting folks for another fun release today!

 

I do not need a guest beer list to get excited about making the relatively short journey to Tillamook today.

 

So... what ended up getting released today???

 

Nothing yet. Doesn't start until 2 pst.

 

Good stuff. Thanks Trevor and lindsey. Special Kay was my favorite or the day! ;-)
This one was miles better than the others. The extra space makes it so much better! Nice taproom as well. Spreading out the pours to three locations was great. Can't say I waited more than 5 minutes ever.

 

They found some berry whiskey bu also.
;-)

 

This had to be one of the better run releases I've seen in a while. Other than the bottle sale line, there were no lines to be seen all day long. Not crowded, nice bottle share bottles (Dark Cherry Imagine?!?!), just great! And for those keeping score when I left just after 5pm the only bottle that was sold out was the Black Raz Bu. Honestly I know some of that was actually still left though they were not selling it towards the end (as in if there had been people in the original line that wanted it they would have sold it to them- Trevor just wanted to hold some for the tasting room once everyone lined up was covered).

 

That imagine was tasty... Hope they release it!

 

My only suggestion would be to hand out sales slips to the people in line so you could fill it what you wanted, get to the front, hand in the slip with money, then wait for your name to be called. Might make the line move a bit quicker, but it was fine how it was.

 

As someone who was filling the orders, there's weren't many moments when I was idle for more than 5 or 10 seconds waiting for a slip to pack, so I actually doubt it would have made much of a difference. This was just a much longer line than the last couple releases!

 

huge props to Trevor for how smooth everything went. Bottle line moved really fast and even the draft lines though there was some bottle necking at times but not bad. Much better than the previous party. Looking forward to the next one.

 

Y

true, might have just made it easier for the people taking orders

 

I was in the bottle line for 45 minutes

 

Also, crusian was close to the very end of the line (or at least the end of the line as it existed when me and the missus showed up).

Once inside, we never had to wait more than 3 or 4 minutes to get a beer from either of the 2 tap stations or the barrel where Trevor was pouring from Perennial and Ale Apothecary bottles. All the extra space in the tasting room and the barrel warehouses made for a very uncrowded experience. Especially when compared to the party in May.

 

....er actually the line was horrible, hours HOURS we had to wait....