Biere de Garde

Biere de Garde is a French-style farmhouse ale from White Bluffs Brewing of Richland, Washington.

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Specs

Brewery Description

This is a nice malty, low hopped beer that is conditioned to show the characteristics of an aged lager.

Source: Untappd (hand-read citation): White Bluffs Biere de Garde

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

The listing names the two hops in the specs table but gives no malt bill or yeast strain (Untappd (hand-read citation): White Bluffs Biere de Garde).

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines for French-Style Bière de Garde call for toasted malt character with slight sweetness, low to medium noble hop character and fruity esters, at 4.4 to 8.0 percent ABV, 20 to 30 IBU and 4 to 16 SRM. The published strength and bitterness fall within those category ranges.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

White Bluffs Brewing is in Richland, WA. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Untappd.

Related

• Brewery: White Bluffs Brewing
• Hop varieties: Fuggle, Hallertauer Mittelfruh
• Hop farms that grow these varieties: grown by Goschie Farms

Each farm listed as growing a variety grows that variety according to the hop farm data; the brewery has not said it bought hops from that farm.

Links

• White Bluffs Brewing
• White Bluffs Brewing: taplist
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines
• Untappd (hand-read citation): White Bluffs Biere de Garde

Gaps

• Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked untappd.com, whitebluffsbrewing.com, whitebluffsbrewing.com, whitebluffsbrewing.com, whitebluffsbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.

Research Notes

• First pass: The brewery's home, about, store and taplist pages were read; none mentions a bière de garde, and the taplist content appears to load dynamically and returned no beer text.
• First pass: No Untappd page for the brewery could be located by direct URL, and the shared web search budget ran out during this batch.
• First pass: No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
• First pass: Researched 2026-10-13.
• Second pass 2026-10-13: The exact White Bluffs listing supplies strength, bitterness, a farmhouse ale description and both hop varieties. No brewery product page was found.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: Additional brewery-domain and product-page searches found no qualifying beer page. Third-party packaging and medal mentions do not supply beer url.
• Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Biere de Garde lists 6.8% ABV, 24 IBU, style "French-Style Bière de Garde" (entry last modified 2026-08-19). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the description on file comes from Untappd and is not extended.