Native fermented wild ale with yeasts harvested from blueberry skins aged in Italian foedres

2018 Festival of Barrel Aged Beer

Gold Medal Winner

Tasting Notes

Native yeasts harvested from blueberry skins yield an aromatic cloudburst of summer blueberries, concord grapes and strawberry blossoms interlaced with supple oak and a delicate note of violets from the long rest in handmade foedres we pulled out of a winery in the northern Italy region of Piedmont where they held Barolo for 15 years

Alcohol

6.6% alc/vol

Ingredients

Pilsner malt, Special aromatic, raw wheat, spelt malt, Nugget and Sterling hops, native yeast harvested off the skins of Michigan blueberries

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