Topic Archives: Wine Aged
Green Flash Natura Morta Boysenberry joins wild lineup
Green Flash Natura Morta Boysenberry has expanded the brewery’s sour and wild lineup. The Cellar 3 Series features some of the San Diego, California based brewery’s fun and most funky.
Green Flash Natura Morta Boysenberry starts as a saison base, aged in oak barrels with boysenberry puree and apple blossom (the flower of an apple tree).
A dewy-fresh, sweet, tart twist on our Belgian-style Saison, this spiced ale offers notes of fresh-pressed boysenberry puree and apple blossom with a smooth oak presence throughout. The Brettanomyces adds a funky and slightly wild zest before balancing out to a smooth finish by earthy tannins from cellar aging.
Green Flash Natura Morta Boysenberry is a 750 milliliter bottle offering for a limited time.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Boysenberry, Apple Blossom. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Debut: Early June, 2016
5.5% ABV
Hi-Wire Oak Fermented Tart Saison joins Single Barrel Series
Hi-Wire Oak Fermented Tart Saison will join the Asheville, North Carolina based brewery’s lineup on June 11th. Part of their South Slope location’s Single Barrel Series.
Hi-Wire Oak Fermented Tart Saison was soured in the kettle, then racked to red wine oak barrels with a mixed culture (of wild yeast and sour bacteria) and passionfruit. The end result is a beer with an earthy, oaky character.
Dank tropical notes of passion fruit blend with subtle brett funk & earthy oak character in this vibrant, refreshingly tart beer.
Production of Hi-Wire Oak Fermented Tart Saison is limited to 120, 750 milliliter bottles. On sale at the South Slope location at 12 pm on June 11th.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Passionfruit. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: 6/11/16
5.5% ABV
To date, the Single Barrel Series includes:
Oak Fermented Dark Saison, Tart Wild Ale w/Cherries & Raspberries, Berliner Weisse w/ Brettanomyces, and the above release.
Hi-Wire Oak Fermented Berliner Weisse, June 11th
Hi-Wire Oak Fermented Berliner Weisse with Brettanomyces will release on June 11th.
The Asheville, North Carolina based brewery transitioned their downtown South Slope location in a specialty brewery for wild and sour/ and one-off releases. Shortly after, the brewery launched the Hi-Wire Single Barrel Series, with two beers.
This berliner weisse maintains the traditional character of the style, while oak fermentation & brett adds depth and complexity to this light, tart wheat beer.
Batch #3 is Hi-Wire Oak Fermented Berliner Weisse, a kettle soured beer that was fermented in a white wine barrel with German ale yeast. The final beer was bottled conditioned with Brettanomyces yeast. Available in 750 milliliter bottles on June 11th, at 12 pm.
Style: American Wild Ale (Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: 6/11/16
4.7% ABV
Monday Night Mom Jeans hits Black Tie Series
Monday Night Mom Jeans has officially joined the brewery’s Black Tie Series.
The Black Tie Series is the brewery’s more “formal & fancy” line of beers. The Black Tie family features the likes of Great American Beer Festival medal winning Barrel Aged Drafty Kilt, and most recently, Georgian Imperial Stout.
This beer is built for function, not fashion. Effervescent with toasty malt overtones and a delicate hop finish, this dry Belgian-style pale ale was aged in the barrels of the mother of all suburban beverages. Fresh chardonnay barrels lend light vanilla notes and a pleasant tartness to the flavor.
Fill your social calendar with playdates and your shopping cart with Lunchables, so at the end for the day, you deserve a Mom Jeans. Heck, split it with your neighbor so that you can get some conversation with an adult.
Monday Night Mom Jeans will be a 22 ounce bottle offering. Now on shelves.
Style: Belgian-style Pale Ale (Wine Barrel Aged.)
Hops: East Kent Goldings
Malts: Pilsner, Vienna, Munich, Biscuit, Aromatic
Debut: May, 2016
7% ABV
Read more: Monday Night Black Tie Series
Creature Comforts Curious 6 joins lineup April 30th
Creature Comforts Curious 6 will be available to-go during a special tour on April 30th, 2016.
This sixth edition in the Curious Series starts as another one of the brewery’s very popular releases – Emergence, that has aged on Georgia peaches. In case you are’t familiar, Emergence is an American wild ale, fermented with the brewery’s house mixed culture yeast strain, aged in wine barrels.
Creature Comforts collaborated with Fort Valley, Georgia based Pearson Farms for Curious 6, selecting fresh peaches at the perfect time in order for the fruit to really pop in this beer.
“When drinking The Curious No. 6 you can expect the aroma to be as if you’ve sunk your teeth into the best peach you’ve ever had,” said Head Brewer and Co-Founder David Stein.
Above, brewmaster Adam Beauchamp pours Beer Street Journal a preview taste of this upcoming release. The peaches really do shine in this edition. Honestly, while you could very much cellar a wild ale, maybe considering drinking this one sooner rather than later. Keep those fresh peaches on the forefront of this beer.
Creature Comforts Curious 6 is limited to just a few hundred bottles, tour release only.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Release: 4/30/16
7% ABV
Wicked Weed Marina fruit sour joins lineup
Wicked Weed Marina has joined the Asheville, North Carolina brewery’s lineup.
Marina is a blonde sour ale has been aged in wine barrels with apricots and peaches.
Wicked Weed Marina is a blonde sour ale aged in wine barrels with over one pound per gallon of peaches and apricots. The result is a delicate, hazy-gold ale with deep stone fruit character.
The brewery tells Beer Street Journal that the expanded barrel capacity is allowing this beer to be released a few times this year. Marina is a 500 milliliter bottle offering.
Bottles are available now at the brewery, distribution starts the last week of March.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches, Apricots)
Availability: 500ml bottles
Latest Return: Late March, 2016
6.5% ABV
Birds Fly South False Face, a sour stout
Birds Fly South False Face, a sour stout, is the next release by the Greenville, South Carolina brewery.
The base beer is a sweet stout that has been fermented in open wine vats with a mix of lactobacillus souring bacteria, house yeast, and Brettanomyces. Birds Fly South False Face was then aged in Four Roses Bourbon barrels with more wild and sour cultures.
This stunner of a stout was barely aged in bourbon barrels for a good long while after our house lactobacillus and yeast had a chance to play, then bottled conditioned for one month.
False Face is named for a ceremonial mask worn by some Native American tribes to cure the sick.
Kegs of Birds Fly South False Face will be available the week of March 21st at Appalachian Ale House in Pickens, South Carolina. Bottles will be distributed in April, 2016.
Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (Wine Aged. Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. Limited Release.
Debut: Late March, 2016
5.8% ABV
Recent releases by Birds Fly South include Rustic Sunday and Skin & Bone.
