Topic Archives: Grapes
Stone Winter Harvest Now Available
Stone Winter Harvest is now available, a small batch offering for the west coast and midwest. Winter Harvest is a Belgian-Style golden ale, aged in white wine barrels with merlot grapes from Stone Farms.
Style: Belgian Golden Ale (w/ Grapes. Wine barrel aged.)
Availability: Very limited.
11.3% ABV
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 a mix of souring bacteria. Each beer was fermented in stainless first, then transferred to barrels. Each barrel contained a mix of more than 40 strains of Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, & Pediococius from all over the world.
The lineup:
Empty Hats – Oud Bruin. The flavor starts with a big red wine component, quickly followed by a strong tartness, funk, and a hint of warm malt on the finish, which lingers for ages.
New from Nowhere – Flanders Red. The flavor starts out with raspberry, strawberry, and oak, quickly followed by a puckering sourness, and a long, red fruit-drenched finish.
Rampart Junction – Peach Sour. After 11 months in red wine barrels, we added 50lbs per barrel of fresh, organic, heirloom peaches, which spent 5 months in the barrels before bottling.
Oracle of the Bottle – Cabernet Grape Sour. (News From Nowhere is the base beer.) After 11 months in red wine barrels, we added 50lbs per barrel of Cabernet grapes, which spent 5 months in the barrels before bottling.
Palace of the Cracked Heads – Nectarine Sour. (Empty Hats is the base beer.) After 11 months in red wine barrels, we added 50lbs per barrel of fresh, organic, heirloom nectarines, which spent 5 months in the barrels before bottling.
Bottles retail for $25 – $30 dollars each and can be pre-purchased online starting December 4th, 2014. You must pick them up in person before February 12, 2015. (No Proxies).
Stone Brewing Co. Last Harvest (A Mystery)
Stone Brewing Co. (Escondido, CA) tweeted the release of this Quingenti Millilitre Series offering, Last Harvest. The Belgian-style golden ale features wine barrel aging, and grapes from the brewery’s own Stone Farms.
The tweet seem to have disappeared… So, just radar this beer for now. Until it surfaces again.
Style: Belgian-style Golden Ale (w/ Merlot Grapes. Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 500ml Bottles. Limited
Arrival: ???
11.3% ABV
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 older barrels, used to soften wine instead of imparting oak flavors.
Einzigartig mean “unique” in German. Avery produced 116 cases of Einzigartig, and is only releasing 44.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Grape Must, Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12oz Bottles. 116 cases produced.
Arrival: 12/14/14
10.13% ABV
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 to the beer. The yeast and bacteria naturally occurring on the grape must did all fermentation.
We gave our yeast a vacation, The critters on the skins of the grapes did all the work on this beauty! Completely spontaneous fermentation!
Avery Spontanea was bottled in October in 12oz bottles.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Grape Must. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles. 165 Cases produced.
Arrival: 12/14/14
9.58% ABV
Firestone Walker Feral Vinifera from the Barrelworks
Feral Vinifera was born of a collaborative effort with local grape growers and winemakers in Barrelworks’ backyard of the Santa Ynez Valley. Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and Orange Muscat grapes were co-fermented with wheat-based wort, then inoculated with proprietary wild yeast to create this trailblazing hybrid.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Grapes)
Availability: 375ml bottles
Arrival: 9/20/14
9.1% ABV
Feral Vinifera Blend:
Barrel Ratio: 100% French Oak
Barrel Blend Ratio Maturation time
French Oak Sauvignon Blanc/wheat beer 35% 12 months
French Oak Chenin Blanc/wheat beer 35% 12months
French Oak Orange Muscat/wheat beer 5% 12 months
French Oak Bretta Weisse 25% 8 months
Perennial Savant Blanc Bottles Released
Perennial Artisan Ales (St. Louis, MO) is releasing a limited amount of a new wine barrel offering, Savant Blanc.
Savant Blanc is a Belgian-style blonde Ale, 100% fermented with Brettanomyces, aged 5 months in Chardonnay grapes with Chardonel grapes. (a white wine hybrid grape.)
Perennial Savant Blanc is available today (7/31) in the tap room in 750ml bottles ($20) and will hit distribution in very limited quantities.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Grapes. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml bottles
?? ABV
Image via Perennial
