Modern Times – Funky Universal Friend, Mostly Brett Dancing Plague Bottle Release
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From Modern Times:
Cool stuff: we’ve got three tasty beers that have been funkifying in bottles for several months now. Each month we’ve been cracking them open to see how they’re progressing, and we now proclaim them exceedingly awesome.
Two are variations on the same theme: Universal Friend, our saison that blurs the line between wine and beer. Both versions have been mingling with four different Brett strains and getting progressively earthier, more complex, and thunderously funky. The Pinot Grigio edition is dry, floral, nuanced, and a great match with almost any meal. The Pinot Noir edition is outrageously purple, with an intense grape-centric juiciness and layers of barnyard radness.
The final bottle is Mostly Brett Dancing Plague, a Berliner Weisee so-named because it’s given a careful initial kettle souring (with lactobacillus) followed by a lengthy fermentation with 12 different Brett strains. Tart through and through, it offers an earthy wheat character followed by notes of hibiscus, pineapple, and lemon zest.
Bottles go on sale tomorrow at 10am via Brown Paper Tickets, and we’ll celebrate the first day of bottle pick-ups this Thursday at the Lomaland Fermentorium. You can purchase bottles here (the password protection will disappear before the sale begins.) PLEASE READ ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
IN OTHER NEWS, we’re now pouring Neverwhere, a 100% Brett Drie IPA! We’re incredibly excited to be bringing back one of the very first beers we ever brewed. While Brett usually means funk (such as when it’s combined with other yeasts, like in the bottles discussed above), a 100% Brett Drie ferment yields a clean but crazy tropical beer with distinct pineapple notes. Hopped with Citra, Centennial, and Chinook, the hops mesh beautifully with the deeply juicy body on this utterly unique beast. Available at both tasting rooms; League growler fills only.
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