American Wild Ales
Modern Times Sour Bottles On Sale December 4th
Modern Times Beer (San Diego, CA) is gearing up for a sour beer release on December 11th, 2014. This will be the brewery’s first public release.
The release features five sour/wild offerings, each spent 15 months aging in red wine barrels with Continue Reading →
Upslope Wild Saison Cans Debut November 20th
Upslope Brewing Company (Boulder, CO) will introduce Volume 2 in the their limited release Lee Hill Series – Wild Saison.
Wild Saison is a sour ale, fermented with a saison yeast along with lactobacillus and brettanomyces. The beer is also aged Continue Reading →
Hangar 24 Barrel Roll “Chandelle” on Black Friday
Hanger 24 Barrel Roll #5 is Chandelle, releasing on November 28th, 2014.
Chandelle is a sour blonde, aged for a year in white wine barrels with 850 pounds of Golden Sweet apricots.
The fulsome and earthy apricot aromas float on the bracingly Continue Reading →
Avery Einzigartig Joins Barrel Aged Series on December 14th
Avery Brewing’s Barrel Aged Series release #25 is Einzigartig, an American wild ale. This small batch release is brewed with Riesling grape must (freshly pressed juice with skins, seeds, and stems) and aged neutral Cabernet Sauvignon barrels. Neutral wine barrels are Continue Reading →
Avery Spontanea Joining Barrel Aged Series
Number 24 in Avery Brewing’s Barrel Aged Series is Spontanea, an American wild ale.
Spontanea is brewed with Cabernet Sauvignon grape must and aged in Cabernet Savignon wine barrels. An interesting fact about Spontanea, is that no extra yeast was added Continue Reading →
Jester King Colour Five Releases on Halloween
Jester King Brewery (Austin, TX) will release Colour Five on Halloween. Colour Five is a blend of barrel aged sour beer with Texas blueberries.
The first attempt at this blueberry barrel aged sour beer failed in 2013. That batch was too vinegary (i.e. Continue Reading →
