OFFICIAL De Garde + Tillamook County Thread!

[wethorseblanket]

Surprised no one has mentioned the Grand Premier level yet.

Oh, you only got Grand Premier? It's all about Grand Premier Reserve. Get on my level.

 

[benbikes4beer]

Oh, you only got Grand Premier? It's all about Grand Premier Reserve. Get on my level.

Mine just said The Keeper. Is that good?

 

[Fahmie25]

Mine just said The Keeper. Is that good?

 

[benbikes4beer]

Apparently the vetting process didn't include anything involving integrity or character. I got in.

Birds of a feather flock together amirite?

 

[wuntrikpony]

All those otphjs finally paid off!

 

[ewwiccc]

BA peoples still trying to figure out DG's selection process. Some butthurts over there

 

[JCastle1]

BA peoples still trying to figure out DG's selection process. Some butthurts over there

link pls

 

[ewwiccc]

link pls

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/visiting-tillamook-summer-2017-update.489599/

maybe not much "butthurt"... but it is as you'd expect. Some people not happy about not getting in

 

[FoudreGuy]

BA peoples still trying to figure out DG's selection process. Some butthurts over there

Hell, I'd be curious to hear about the process. If people are honest about signing up early and not getting in there has to be more to it.

 

[coldstorage]

Hm, doesn't seem too irrational, specially for BA....

Hate to break my snark streak but I think this was handled pretty poorly. If they must do a society then they should try to favor locals over ppl who have never been to the dern brewery. But really all these ****** places should just drop the societies already. There is no equitable way to do it, you turn off more people than you make happy and even the best solution of trying to cater to "local supporters" still kind of selects for punishers that live on social media (LOOKIN AT YOU EVERYONE ON TB) and excludes the people who support the brewery but don't introduce themselves to every brewer they meet. (Yes, real hot take I have here...)

I actually really respected DeGarde for killing Keepers the first time because its what most breweries should be doing at this point with their societies but they wont rip off the damn bandaid.

requisite "I already spent my monies and didnt even try for this" applies of course

WAIT I MEAN: UP YOURS FOREVER DEGARDE WHY YOU NO ANSWER MY EMAILS

 

[SpentBrain]

Hm, doesn't seem too irrational, specially for BA....

Hate to break my snark streak but I think this was handled pretty poorly. If they must do a society then they should try to favor locals over ppl who have never been to the dern brewery. But really all these ****** places should just drop the societies already. There is no equitable way to do it, you turn off more people than you make happy and even the best solution of trying to cater to "local supporters" still kind of selects for punishers that live on social media (LOOKIN AT YOU EVERYONE ON TB) and excludes the people who support the brewery but don't introduce themselves to every brewer they meet. (Yes, real hot take I have here...)

I actually really respected DeGarde for killing Keepers the first time because its what most breweries should be doing at this point with their societies but they wont rip off the damn bandaid.

requisite "I already spent my monies and didnt even try for this" applies of course

WAIT I MEAN: UP YOURS FOREVER DEGARDE WHY YOU NO ANSWER MY EMAILS

Bravo.gif

 

[Crusian]

Yeah. I have friends that got in... after I emailed, then told them. So...
**** my 600 de garde bottles in my celler. Original keepers member, Guess I didn't support them enough from day 1 to even bother with an I'm sorry email.

 

[SpentBrain]

Yeah. I have friends that got in... after I emailed, then told them. So...
**** my 600 de garde bottles in my celler. Original keepers member, Guess I didn't support them enough to bother with an I'm sorry email.

Should purge that cellar out of spite and send to me. Boycott them jerks.

 

[tennispl]

Yeah. I have friends that got in... after I emailed, then told them. So...
**** my 600 de garde bottles in my celler. Original keepers member, Guess I didn't support them enough to even bother with an I'm sorry email.

Lololololololol

 

[Crusian]

Lololololololol

Huh. You seem like a nice person.

 

[Gene1]

Yeah. I have friends that got in... after I emailed, then told them. So...
**** my 600 de garde bottles in my celler. Original keepers member, Guess I didn't support them enough from day 1 to even bother with an I'm sorry email.

I'd reach out directly, man. There's a lot of entitlement going around, but in your case... regardless of the selection process, it sounds like perhaps an oversight was made or your original email didn't make it through.

 

[Crusian]

I'd reach out directly, man. There's a lot of entitlement going around, but in your case... regardless of the selection process, it sounds like perhaps an oversight was made or your original email didn't make it through.

Thanks gene, Maybe. I'd love to think that... But I have a bad feeling Trevor left me out on purpose... not sure why though, just the way I think

 

[abawol01]

Thanks gene, Maybe. I'd love to think that... But I have a bad feeling Trevor left me out on purpose... not sure why though, just the way I think

Maybe you're reaction to being left out is part of why you were left out?

Shrug.gif

 

[Crusian]

Ha. Crystal balls... fortune telling is a big business...

 

[BBA1]

These clubs aren't worth my money. I can see them being a big deal for people who don't live close to breweries that produce wild ales or through retail, but there's no shortage of them out here in the PNW. Most people I know that really buy a lot from de Garde just do it to trade away.

 

[wethorseblanket]

When you say 600 bottles, do you mean over the years you've acquired that many or you are currently in possession of 600 bottles?

 

[NAD1983]

Hm, doesn't seem too irrational, specially for BA....

Hate to break my snark streak but I think this was handled pretty poorly. If they must do a society then they should try to favor locals over ppl who have never been to the dern brewery. But really all these ****** places should just drop the societies already. There is no equitable way to do it, you turn off more people than you make happy and even the best solution of trying to cater to "local supporters" still kind of selects for punishers that live on social media (LOOKIN AT YOU EVERYONE ON TB) and excludes the people who support the brewery but don't introduce themselves to every brewer they meet. (Yes, real hot take I have here...)

I actually really respected DeGarde for killing Keepers the first time because its what most breweries should be doing at this point with their societies but they wont rip off the damn bandaid.

requisite "I already spent my monies and didnt even try for this" applies of course

WAIT I MEAN: UP YOURS FOREVER DEGARDE WHY YOU NO ANSWER MY EMAILS

I'll fight you.

 

[lb304854]

*Sarah Mclachggchlchlan playing*
*reads acceptance letter from 2015 Keepers*
*Lip quivers*
*Sheds solitary tear*

 

[NAD1983]

Yeah. I have friends that got in... after I emailed, then told them. So...
**** my 600 de garde bottles in my celler. Original keepers member, Guess I didn't support them enough from day 1 to even bother with an I'm sorry email.

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*Sarah Mclachggchlchlan playing*
*reads acceptance letter from 2015 Keepers*
*Lip quivers*
*Sheds solitary tear*

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[JulianB1]

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/visiting-tillamook-summer-2017-update.489599/

maybe not much "butthurt"... but it is as you'd expect. Some people not happy about not getting in

https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...summer-2017-update.489599/page-6#post-5556586

EdwardAbbey Devotee (453) Jul 13, 2015 Washington
Beer Trader
honkduh said: ↑
It's nice to not care about things like this.

T'is...But it's sometimes nice, for some people, to care about them, too. In moderation, and to the extent which is proportionate to whatever's really at stake. (Sidebar: this is a beer site, so make of the stakes in the present context what you will.)

De Garde cared enough about this program to not only revive it but further invest in it. They are surely very proud of it, and see it, among other things, as a way to reward, and maybe even establish a deeper connection with, the people who love their beer and love them, regardless of wherever these people may happen to live.

Personally, I didn't ever care to sign up, or much less worry about the minutiae of the whole process, but I do care about that. It positively means something, and something significant, to one of our best and most estimable breweries; and even if this self-imposed undertaking brought them many self-inflicted headaches as they took pains to get it right (however they ultimately defined that), the overwhelming demand they received is some pretty cool, and fully deserved, kind of validation for all they've accomplished...

To which I'll say, in other words, they earned their feverish attention and affection, and it's always nice to care about things like that, even if we don't benefit ourselves. Or never even wanted to...

This guy uses so many commas that a New York Times style editor would find it excessive.

 

[waltersrj]

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/visiting-tillamook-summer-2017-update.489599/

maybe not much "butthurt"... but it is as you'd expect. Some people not happy about not getting in

Good God. BA sucks so much ass...

 

[RyanG1]

Yeah. I have friends that got in... after I emailed, then told them. So...
**** my 600 de garde bottles in my celler. Original keepers member, Guess I didn't support them enough from day 1 to even bother with an I'm sorry email.

Cellar of De Garde!? 600!?

 

[Podunkparte]

Yeah. I have friends that got in... after I emailed, then told them. So...
**** my 600 de garde bottles in my celler. Original keepers member, Guess I didn't support them enough from day 1 to even bother with an I'm sorry email.

I'd reach out directly, man. There's a lot of entitlement going around, but in your case... regardless of the selection process, it sounds like perhaps an oversight was made or your original email didn't make it through.

Thanks gene, Maybe. I'd love to think that... But I have a bad feeling Trevor left me out on purpose... not sure why though, just the way I think

 

[Gene1]

I wasn't even being sarcastic! Just trying to suggest that if someone is a super-regular customer, who truly got into the inbox early but didn't get selected, then it was probably either random (to a certain extent) or, if it was not random, perhaps he was left out accidentally. Idk.

 

[disapowzment]

Did chemman14 get in? This has already been discussed but I'm to lazy to go through it.