American Wild Ales

Jester King Teams Up with Off Color Brewing

Jester King Radiolaria is a new collaboration with Chicago, Illinois based Off Color Brewing. The resulting beer, as the label states, is a “conflagration of wild yeasts.”

Jester King travelled to Chicago with a blend of Texas yeast and bacteria, and Continue Reading →

Avery Raspberry Sour, Released

Avery Raspberry Sour is joining the brewery’s line of wild and sour ales. A part of Avery’s Barrels & Botanicals series, Avery creates a sour ale with ripe raspberries.

Luscious ripe red raspberries are elegantly intertwined with a bountiful amount of lactic acidity Continue Reading →

Fonta Flora Carolina Custard Releases June 13th

Fonta Flora Carolina Custard joins the Morganton, North Carolina’s Appalachian Wild Ale Series on June 13th. The date corresponds with the State of Origin Craft Beer Festival taking place on the Morgantown Courthouse Square.

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Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King Foudreweizen, A Live Oak Collab [PICS]

Jester King Foudreweizen is the second collaboration Jester King has done with Live Oak Brewing Co. Both breweries are based in Austin, Texas.

To create Foudreweizen, Jester King transferred Live Oak Hefeweizen wort (boiled, but not yet fermented beer) from the brewery across town and brought it to Jester King to slowly ferment in their in house oak foudre. The yeast and bacteria in the oak walks of the foudre went to work.

After two months in the foudre, a tartness began to emerge as lactic acid producing bacteria began to convert organic compounds into organic acids. Finally, Foudreweizen continued to develop more funk and acidity as it matured in bottles, kegs, and casks during the two months prior to release.

Jester King Foudreweizen follows the first collaboration with Live Oak, Kollaborationsbier. For both releases, the breweries took wort and let a mix of wild yeast and bacteria decide what the beer becomes.

Brewed in January of 2015, Jester King Foudreweizen was bottled in March. Nearly 3,000 bottles will go on sale Friday, May 22nd, 2015.

Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles. 3,000 produced.
Release: 5/22/15

5.6% ABV, 11 IBUS

Images via Jester King

 

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

Jester King Teams Up with Off Color Brewing

Jester King Radiolaria is a new collaboration with Chicago, Illinois based Off Color Brewing. The resulting beer, as the label states, is a “conflagration of wild yeasts.”

Jester King travelled to Chicago with a blend of Texas yeast and bacteria, and combined it with Off Color’s house microbes. The base beer is loosely based on Off Color’s Apex Predator, a farmhouse ale. The blend of both breweries funky mixed cultures give Jester King Radiolaria is unique flavor profile.

Jester King Off Color Radiolaria will be available in the Chicago area. Due to restrictive Texas laws, the beer will not be available in Texas.

Style: American Wild Ale
Hops: Sorachi Ace
Availability: 750ml bottles. Chicago distribution.
Release: May, 2015

4.5% ABV

Images via Jester King

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Avery Brewing, New Releases

Avery Raspberry Sour, Released

Avery Raspberry Sour is joining the brewery’s line of wild and sour ales. A part of Avery’s Barrels & Botanicals series, Avery creates a sour ale with ripe raspberries.

Luscious ripe red raspberries are elegantly intertwined with a bountiful amount of lactic acidity and delicate barrel nuances to cultivate this stunning sour ale.

Avery Raspberry Sour is now available in 22oz bottles, year round.

At least initially, Avery Raspberry Sour will be limited to just a handful of the brewery’s markets.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Distribution: CO, CA, IL, MA, NY, PA, TX, and VA.
Release: May, 2015

7.2% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Glarus Brewing

New Glarus Wild Bitter Joins R&D Series in May

New Glarus Wild Bitter is the brewery’s next R&D offering, coming in May.

New Glarus Wild Bitter is an IPA, is  aged for nine months in the brewery’s Wild Fruit Cave, dry hopped with Slovenian Savinjski hops, then followed by spontaneous secondary fermentation. A final third fermentation happened in the bottle.

Wild Bitter will be released at New Glarus on May 7th-9th. Two bottle limit per person, per day.

Style: American Wild Ale
Hops: Citra, Sterling, Savinjski

Availability: 500ml bottles. Limited Release.
Release: 5/7/15

10% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Fonta Flora Brewery

Fonta Flora Carolina Custard Releases June 13th

Fonta Flora Carolina Custard joins the Morganton, North Carolina’s Appalachian Wild Ale Series on June 13th. The date corresponds with the State of Origin Craft Beer Festival taking place on the Morgantown Courthouse Square.

Fonta Flora Carolina Custard is a white wine barrel aged wild ale featuring paw paw fruit, a fleshy, tropical fruit, indigenous to North America. Custard is fermented with a blend of Brettanoymces and Lactobacillus.

Available in 750ml bottles.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Paw Paw Fruit. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: 6/13/15

5.9% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers, Proclamation Ale Company

Proclamation Amazing Adventures of the Alpaca Magi

Proclamation Amazing Adventures of the Alpaca Magi

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Crooked Stave, New Beers

Crooked Stave Petite Sour Raspberry

Crooked Stave Petite Sour Raspberry

by Reid Ramsay