American Wild Ales

Wicked Weed Myrtille coming to Canvas Series

Wicked Weed Myrtille is coming soon the brewery’s Canvas Series in the near future.

The base golden sour was was aged in neutral wine barrels, locally grown North Carolina blueberries. (Neutral wine barrels are typically older barrels that impart very little Continue Reading →

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle, aged with peaches

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle will be available in bottles on March 12th, 2016.

This beer started off as Maybelle, the brewery’s barrel-aged farmhouse ale. Why stop there, right? Clarabelle is Maybelle, that has been fermented with Brettanomyces with Oregon peaches.

Clarabelle started Continue Reading →

Avery Twenty Three, a birthday wild ale

Avery Twenty Three has just been released by the brewery, celebrating their 23rd year of craft brewing.

This milestone is marked by a dark farmhouse ale, 100% fermented with Brettanomyces bruxellensis, Brettanomyces custersianus, and Brettanomyces drie yeast. As the label suggests, Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

Posted in Wicked Weed Brewing Co, Coming Soon

Wicked Weed Myrtille coming to Canvas Series

Wicked Weed Myrtille is coming soon the brewery’s Canvas Series in the near future.

The base golden sour was was aged in neutral wine barrels, locally grown North Carolina blueberries. (Neutral wine barrels are typically older barrels that impart very little if any oak barrel flavor to the liquid inside.)

Wicked Weed Myrtle is a golden sour ale aged in neutral wine barrels. Two pounds per gallon of fresh, whole North Carolina grown blueberries contribute an earthy and tannic backbone to this uniquely southern sour. When the time is right, the barrels are blended to achieve the perfect balance of berry and house Brett culture.

Wicked Weed Myrtille will be a 500 milliliter bottle offering, The brewery has not yet announced this beer.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Blueberries. Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Release: TBA

6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Wicked Weed Brewing Co, Don't Miss This

Wicked Weed Garcon de Ferme, a foeder beer with peaches

Wicked Weed Garcon de Ferme, a new foudre aged beer on the horizon from the Asheville, North Carolina based brewery.

Peaches highlight Garcon, an foeder aged American wild ale. The base farmhouse ale was fermented with house Brettanomyces, then blended with a golden sour ale.

Our craft honors our childhood lessons. We were lucky to learn ours the hard way: “stick with it,” “wipe your tears,” “Earn your calluses,” and “try to keep up with our ol’ man.” These are the lessons that stay, working their way into our weather flash and aching bones until they are as much a part of us as our own names.

Garson de Ferme is a foeder-rested, Brettanomcyes farmhouse ale.  After fermentation,this pleasantly tart ale is blended back onto over a pound and half per gallon of fresh, whole peaches to reflect and echo that the craft of the old has not been wasted on the young.

Wicked Weed Garcon de Ferme is a 500 milliliter bottle offering. The brewery has not yet announced this offering.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches. Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Release: TBA

6.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in The Commons Brewery, New Releases

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle, aged with peaches

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle will be available in bottles on March 12th, 2016.

This beer started off as Maybelle, the brewery’s barrel-aged farmhouse ale. Why stop there, right? Clarabelle is Maybelle, that has been fermented with Brettanomyces with Oregon peaches.

Clarabelle started off as Maybelle, our barrel aged farmhouse ale. It was then aged in gin barrels from Ransom Spirits before finishing in a stainless steel tank with a blend of Brettanomyces and 500 pounds of Oregon grown peaches from Baird Family Orchards.

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle will be available in 11.2 ounce bottles for a limited time.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches, Barrel-Aged. Gin.)
Availability: 11.2oz Bottles
Release: 3/12/16

7.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Avery Brewing, Headlines

Avery Twenty Three, a birthday wild ale

Avery Twenty Three has just been released by the brewery, celebrating their 23rd year of craft brewing.

This milestone is marked by a dark farmhouse ale, 100% fermented with Brettanomyces bruxellensis, Brettanomyces custersianus, and Brettanomyces drie yeast. As the label suggests, the resulting flavor is a rustic wild ale, with musty, horsey notes.

Add some beautiful, dark and robust Belgian specialty malts for caramel, chocolate and fig elements and you have this-our rendition of a Dark Farmhouse Ale.

Avery Twenty Three launches on March 7th in 22 ounce bottles at the brewery in Colorado. Distribution follows shortly after, to the states listed below.

Style: American Wild Ale
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: 3/7/16

7.9% ABV

PIC: Beer Street Journal 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Short's Brewing, New Releases

Short’s Peachy Pom Pom, a new fruited sour

Short’s Peachy Pom Pom is the brewery’s second bomber bottle release of 2016.

If you are fan of sour fan, Peachy Pom Pom is just that. The American wild ale is brewed with peaches and pomegranates.

Tart berry aromatics accentuate the sweet and sour fruit flavors within this beer. A huge tangy mouthfeel with some initial acidic citrus qualities shocks the palate before a clean and lightly dry finish.

Short’s Peachy Pom Pom is available in 22 ounce bottles, on shelves in Michigan only. (According to the brewery.)

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches, Pomegranates)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: Early March, 2016

7% ABV, 2 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Burial Beer Co, Coming Soon, Transmitter Brewing

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

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Creature Comforts

Creature Comforts Emergence, brewery release March 5th

Creature Comforts Emergence will debut to the public on March 5th, 2016. This beer will be the brewery’s first large bottle release of the year.

Creature Comforts Emergence is an tart blond ale (American wild ale), that has been fermented using at least four strains of the brewery’s house Brettanomyces yeast, and has been resting in wine barrels for a full year until it was bottled in January, 2016.

“This is the beer we plan to make again when we get  new, freshly emptied wine  barrels,”  said  Wood   Cellar  and  Specialty  Brand  Manager,  Blake  Tyers. “As  a  result of using fresh barrels every time, Emergence will never be the exact same beer twice, and we are extremely proud of the  2015  vintage.”

Beer Street Journal has had a sneak preview of this upcoming release, and we think this might be one of the best barrel-aged beers by the Athens, Georgia brewery to date.

Creature Comforts Emergence a 750 miliiter bottle offering, only available at a special tour on March 5th.

Style: American Wild Ale (Barrel Aged. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: 3/5/2016

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay