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Jester King Teams Up with Live Oak. Check out the Name

First off, lets talk about the full name of this beer. Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbiermittschechischemhopfenundwilderbakterienhefekombination.

Yes, for real.

It means “collaboration beer with Czech hops, wild yeast, and bacteria.”

Jester King (Austin, TX) and Live Oak Brewing Co. (Austin, TX). Kollaborationsbier starts with a Continue Reading →

Jester King’s New “Fēn táo”

Jester King Brewery’s next release will be 分 桃 (pronounced Fēn táo) , a barrel-aged wild beer refermented with peaches from their home state of Texas.

Fēn táo was slated to release last year, until a last freeze destroyed the peach Continue Reading →

Jester King Detritivore Releases This Week

Jester King Brewery has a new offering arriving in the tasting room this week – Detritivore. The latest offering is brewed with the same cherries used another brewery release, Montmorency vs. Balaton. This method of using the fruits for a second time Continue Reading →

A New Blended Beer from Jester King

Jester King Brewery’s  releases can be as fascinating as they can be complicated. On Friday, April 25th, the brewery will release Hibernal Dichotomous in the tap room. What is it? Let’s break it down. 

Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous is made using a practice Continue Reading →

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Jester King Teams Up with Live Oak. Check out the Name

First off, lets talk about the full name of this beer. Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbiermittschechischemhopfenundwilderbakterienhefekombination.

Yes, for real.

It means “collaboration beer with Czech hops, wild yeast, and bacteria.”

Jester King (Austin, TX) and Live Oak Brewing Co. (Austin, TX). Kollaborationsbier starts with a low gravity wort brewed at Live Oak with head brewer Dusan Kwiatkowski. (Decoction mash for those brewers out there.) It was loaded into containers and brought to Jester King. From there it was added to fermentation tanks with Jester King brewer’s yeast, wild yeast, and bacteria.

Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbier will be available in bottles and draft, starting Friday, October 24th.

Style: Farmhouse Ale/American Wild Ale
Availability: 750ml bottles (3,300), Draft.
Arrival: 10/24/14

4.2% ABV, 42 IBUs

 Images via Jester King

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery, Seasonal Return

Jester King Omniscience & Proselytism Blend 2 Releases Oct 8

Jester King Brewery (Austin, TX) will release bottles of their second blend of Omniscience & Proselytism wild ale on October 10th, 2014. This is the second release of the beer.

The brewery matured sour/wild beer in oak for a few months, the transferred it to a foudre filled with fresh Oregon raspberries. (Last release was Texas strawberries.) The wild yeast and bacteria re-fermented the sugars from the berries, drying out the final beer. The fruit is fermented the same way wine grapes fermented.

Jester King Omniscience & Proselytism Blend 2 (2014) will be available by the bottle at the brewery starting Friday, October 10th. $16 dollars, one per person.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Strawberries. Oak Aged.)
Availability: 500ml Bottles

5.3% ABV

Image via Jester King

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King’s New “Fēn táo”

Jester King Brewery’s next release will be 分 桃 (pronounced Fēn táo) , a barrel-aged wild beer refermented with peaches from their home state of Texas.

Fēn táo was slated to release last year, until a last freeze destroyed the peach crop. The base beer is an ale with wild yeast, and local sour bacteria, racked to the brewery’s foudres (oak vats) with the fresh peaches from Vogel Orchard in Fredericksburg, Texas. Jester King doesn’t just add the peaches for flavoring. The peaches are refermented along with the beer, much like wine.

分 桃 will be released on Friday, September 12th at Jester King at 4pm. Limited 1 per person, per day. $16.

Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged. Peaches)
Availability: 500ml Bottles (150 cases available)
Arrival: 9/12/14

6.4% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King Detritivore Releases This Week

Jester King Brewery has a new offering arriving in the tasting room this week – Detritivore. The latest offering is brewed with the same cherries used another brewery release, Montmorency vs. Balaton. This method of using the fruits for a second time to ferment, give the beer a little more subtle flavor than when fermented fresh. La Vie en Rose and Atrial Rubicite are also “fruited” this way.

Also, Detritivore uses aged hops that Jester King matured in a nearby barn. The aged hops give the some barnyard and horse blanket flavors. The yeast is blend of saccharomyces, native wild yeast, and souring bacteria.

Style: American Wild Ale
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Limited to 200 cases
Arrival: July 11th, 2014

5.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King & Fantome Collaborate. Sorry, Texas.

Jester King Brewery (Austin, TX) recently collaborated with world famous Belgian brewer Fantome in Soy, Belgium. The brewery travelled abroad for the opportunity to create a farmhouse ale (much like they do in the Lone Star State.)

This story doesn’t have a happy ending for the folks in Texas. Jester King Fantome Del Rey will not make it shelves there. The state’s licensing fees to distribute there is way too high. In addition beers must be subjected to laboratory testing. Faced with these hurdles, many small breweries, stateside and beyond, don’t sell in the state.

Some of the Jester King Fantome Del Rey will ship stateside in small quantities, to those that receive Fantome currently.

Style: Farmhouse Ale
Availability: 750ml Bottles

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery, New Releases

Jester King Releases Biere de Miel This Week

The latest release by Jester King Brewery (Austin, TX) is a honey based beer called Biere De Miel.

Biere de Miel or “honey beer” is brewed, fermented and naturally conditioned with raw Texas wildflower honey from Good Flow Honey Co. Interestingly, this beer was brewed on December 3rd, 2013. Biere de Miel is a product of long, slow fermentation.

With wild fermentation at our brewery, we don’t always know when a beer will be ready. The analogy we like to use is that a farmer can’t plant her/his crops in the spring and say, “I’m going to harvest them on the third Monday in September.” Nature doesn’t behave that way.

Jester King Biere de Miel will be available Friday, June 6th at 4 pm.  The artwork for Bière de Miel was done by by Josh Cockrell of Jester King. It features  Head Brewer Garrett Crowell riding over the Texas Hill Country on a giant bee. 

Style: Honey Beer
Availability: 750ml bottles. 3000 bottles produced
Arrival: 6/7/14

5.8% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

A New Blended Beer from Jester King

Jester King Brewery’s  releases can be as fascinating as they can be complicated. On Friday, April 25th, the brewery will release Hibernal Dichotomous in the tap room. What is it? Let’s break it down. 

Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous is made using a practice called biere de coupage or beer that is “cut.” It is blending technique dating back hundreds of years. Hibernal is a blend of young farmhouse ale (63%), mature barrel aged beer brewed with rosemary, lavender, and spearmint (25%) from November, 2012, and fresh pressed watermelon juice.

The finished beer is 5.8% ABV, 12 IBUs, and retails for $14.

Style: Farmhouse Ale (w/ Spearmint, Rosemary, Lavender, Watermelon Juice. Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Arrival: 4/25/14

5.8% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay