Burial Beer Co
Asheville, NC
Burial Beer Prismatic Eye, a collab with Other Half (August 6th)
Burial Beer Prismatic Eye, a collaboration with New York’s Other Half, releases August 6th.
Folks from Other Half Brewing were in Asheville, North Carolina last week for Wicked Weed’s Funk Invitational. On the way out of town, the met up with Burial Beer.
The result – an imperial IPA, brewed with North Carolina six-row barley, plus Citra, Summer and Centennial hops. The duo used Burial Beer’s house yeast for fermentation.
Our type of people. Our type of ritual. NC-grown six-row grain under a bouquet of Citra, Summer, and Centennial hops, fermented with our house yeast blend.
Burial Beer Prismatic Eye will be available in 16 ounce cans at the brewery in Asheville.
Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 16oz Cans
Release: 8/6/16
8.5% ABV
Burial The Keeper’s Veil Honey Saison cans debut
Burial The Keeper’s Veil Honey Saison will be the next can release by the Asheville, North Carolina brewery.
Previously available on draft, Burial The Keeper’s Veil Honey Saison features local honey and Riverbend Malt’s 6 Row and wheat. The crown jewel of this beer is the addition of seven flowers and herbs from Asheville’s wildflower population. Flowers include heather, elderflower, lavender, Passion Flower, hibiscus, rose and chamomile.
Those who favor a saison with strong herbal notes, this beer is for you.
Burial The Keeper’s Veil Honey Saison will be available in 16 ounce cans during the last week of June. Distribution to follow.
Style: Saison (w/ Heather, Elderflower, Lavender, Passion Flower, Hibiscus, Rose, Chamomile)
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft
Release (Cans): Late June, 2016
5.5% ABV
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Burial Beer Track 1 kicks off Album Series
Burial Beer Track 1, part of a new “Album Series” debuts on July 3rd.
A dedication to that first track you hear from your favorite album, Burial Beer Track 1 is a straight forward imperial stout.
The Album Series. We begin with Track 1 an Imperial Stout brewed in the spirit of the first track any of us ever heard from our favorite album; straight-forward, honest, the purest example of what’s to come as we leaned in to listen.
Burial Beer Track 1 is available in 750 milliliter bottles.
Style: Imperial Stout
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Debut: 7/3/16
?? ABV
Burial Anno Domini MMXVI celebrates 3 years
Burial Anno Domini MMXVI, the Asheville, North Carolina brewery’s anniversary beer, returns later this month.
This year’s iteration of Burial Anno Domini is a dark rye saison, fermented in red wine barrels with blackberries. (MMXVI= 2016)
Burial Anno Domini MMXVI releases at the brewery on June 19th, 2016.
Style: Saison (w/ Blackberries. Oak Aged.)
Availability:
Release: 6/19/16
7.7% ABV
Burial Ceremonial Session IPA cans hit distro
Burial Ceremonial Session IPA is hitting shelves this week – a session IPA ready just ahead of summer.
Lower alcohol by volume beers pair quite well with day drinking. Burial Ceremonial Session IPA is designed for just that. The base malt is pilsner, plus flaked last, barley and wheat. This batch uses Nelson Sauvin hops.
…with a special house yeast that reacts with a robust dry- hop to provide a rounder mouthfeel, an incredible tropical aroma with a smooth juice flavor.
Burial Ceremonial Session IPA is available in 16 ounce cans.
Style: IPA
Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Availability: 16oz Cans
Release: May, 2016
4% ABV, 35 IBUs
Women in Beer: Jess Reiser of Burial Beer
When I first met Jess Reiser, it was during a bottle release at the brewery in Asheville, North Carolina. In the midst of beer geeks trying to get bottles and open tabs, she was casually hanging out with her ridiculously cute children. Jess was relaxed, calm, and collected, and never failed to say hello to everyone she knew. Something I’ve rarely seen from a brewery owner on a bottle release day. It was obvious I had just met a badass.
It wasn’t until I got to finally sit down with her that I realized how much Burial Beer Company runs on her hardwork, heart and soul. A few years ago, Jess and her husband Doug were living in Seattle. If you know anything about the city’s love of beer, then you know how easy it was for Jess to fall in love with the culture of beer. So much so, she started blogging about it on beerblotter.com. There were quite a few nights with a beer in one hand and a pen in the other.
Writing about beer wasn’t enough for Jess. She wanted to create a little bit of that culture herself. Jess and Doug looked to the east coast on the hunt for a small town to built that community. Asheville, North Carolina was it.
Jess’ past life in New Orleans is reflected in the design and culture of Burial. From the names of the beers, to the artwork, each piece of Burial evokes images of the cycle of life, growth and harvest, even jazz funerals. Undoubtedly, Jess has been quite successful. Burial Beer Company has a cult like following for not only their year round beers, but for the likes of Bolo Coconut Brown Ale and Skillet Donut Stout.
Burial is basically a 3rd child for her. Actually at one point, she could be found behind the bar helping out with her son in a baby bjorn baby strapped to her back. That’s multitasking at its finest.
She spends her days building staff camaraderie, planning bottle releases, even festivals. Plus, Burial is building a second production location. Anytime you step foot in that brewery, you are seeing, smelling and tasting Jess Riser’s dreams and desire to build a beer culture all her own.
Without a doubt, she did it. I think you’ll agree we are all the better for it.
Transmitter & Burial Beer Team Up
Asheville, North Carolina’s Burial Beer Co. recently collaborated with Transmitter Brewing in Long Island City, New York. The result – NC1 Appalacian Farmhouse Ale.
Burial’s Doug Riser met the Transmitter Brewing team on a recent trip to New York. All it takes is a beer with brewing friends to get a collaboration started. Appalachian Farmhouse Ale uses Transmitter’s house wild yeast, plus North Carolina wheat, wildflower honey, and sumac (a small shrub).
North Carolina mailed and unmalted wheat, foraged sumac, wild flower honey and limes. Fermented with a house blend of three strains of Brett.
Transmitter NC1 Appalachian Farmhouse Ale will be released by the brewery in New York.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Honey, Sumac, Limes)
Availability: 25.4oz Bottles
Release: TBA
5.2% ABV
