de Garde Brewing celebrates 11th anniversary with an invitational festival featuring breweries from around the world

“We're doing this thing again.  Even though I said I'd never ever, and I mean never, again,” says de Garde Brewing co-owner/co-founder Trevor Rogers. Oregon’s premiere brewery of fruited sour Lambic-style beers is throwing down once again for a big anniversary invitational beer fest on Saturday, May 4th, in their hometown of Tillamook on the Oregon coast.

Last year for their blowout 10th anniversary celebration, de Garde threw a huge party under a covered tent overlooking the ocean in Garibaldi, Oregon. Beer nerds and Belgian and Lambic enthusiasts came from far and wide to book out every hotel room in a 50 mile radius to try rare de Garde beers and even rarer beers from their friends from across the world. The organization of the event, which included rangling parking, a huge entry line, food vendors, and kegs and bottles coming far and wide, was a massive undertaking for tiny team at de Garde. The party was a success by all accounts, but behind-the-scenes issues like food vendors canceling last minute without time to replace them, made for a stressful process that almost broke Rogers spirit, and an experience he swore would not be repeated.

“We did learn some lessons, I think, though we've been doing large events for almost 10 years now. Just not this large until the last couple years,” says Rogers. But there was a lot of satisfaction, glory, and kismet in last year’s milestone celebration, like the glorious sun breaks in the clouds they lucked out on. “We were fortunate to have the weather that we did that day. It would have all been lessened had the weather not been so lovely. I quite literally started weeping the morning of the last event while I was driving to the site and the sun broke through the clouds.”

With last year’s memorable fest in the rear view mirror, Rogers was able to work up the ambition and enthusiasm for an 11th anniversary festival in 2024 by playing to their strong suits. By moving the festival back to their downtown Tillamook taproom and closing the streets outside, they can control conditions, costs, and on-site assets to leverage them towards a more manageable festival this May.

“Our goal with this event hasn't been to take the most money from people that we can. We want to bring some joy, support our community and industry, and have some fun together. If we can best do that with a slightly smaller event, then that's what we'll do,” says Rogers. “Keeping some excitement alive. That all seems important, and worth doing. Maybe more so than ever.”

de Garde Brewing’s 11th anniversary event will be a celebration of place, as well as of beer. There will be live music performed by regional artists throughout the event, as well as food vendors representing the diverse culinary delights of their area.

Public ticket sales for de Garde 11th Anniversary start on Monday, March 11th at 9am on eventbrite.

Event Details:

• Date; Saturday, May 4th, 2024

• VIP entry starts at 12:00pm

• General Admission entry starts at 1:00pm

• The event ends at 6:00pm

• We cannot pour beer after 5:45pm, nor can we sell bottles to go or allow any remaining beer in glasses after 6:00pm. Please plan accordingly.

• Ticket prices: $55 for General Admission, $85 for VIP

Tickets Include:

• VIP: Early Entry at 12:00pm and 8 Drink Tickets (more tickets available at the event)

• General Admission: Entry at 1:00pm and 4 Drink Tickets (more tickets available at the event)

• Custom Anniversary Glassware (to use at the event, and to keep)

• Live Music & Access to Food Vendors

More Details:

• Drink tickets are good for one pour each. Pour sizes will vary by beer.

• Attendees of this festival style celebration will be able to enjoy a broad array of finely crafted beer from de Garde Brewing. A large selection of exciting new releases will be available to enjoy at the event, as well as in bottles to go. We will also be serving a curated selection of beer from our extensive archive.

• In addition, we have invited a large number of other breweries, representing some of the friends we've made over the last eleven years. We'll be sharing special beers from each of these breweries at the event (subject to change):

Guest Breweries:

• Side Project Brewing

• Brasserie Cantillon

• Holy Mountain Brewing

• Hill Farmstead Brewery

• Sante Adairius Rustic Ales

• Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen

• Anchorage Brewing

• Gueuzerie Tilquin

• Insight Cellars

• Fonta Flora Brewery

• Monkish Brewing

• Trillium Brewing

• Voodoo Brewing

• Block 15 Brewing

• Private Press Brewing

• The Veil Brewing Co.

• Weldwerks Brewing Co.

• Cloudwater Brew Co.

• Von Ebert Brewing

• Fremont Brewing

• Tommie Sjef

• Wildflower Brewing

• Fox Farm Brewery

• And more...

Food Vendors:

• Garibaldi Portside Bistro

• JAndy Oyster Co.

• Har-Bq

Music:

• Golden Promise

• Roger Lemstrom