Jester King Adding Bitter Death & Le Petit Prince Cans

Today I have some new cans coming from Jester King in Austin, TX.

Bitter Death will be a an extra-hoppy Belgian-style pale ale (5%-AbV) and Le Petit Prince will remain a farmhouse table beer that hits 2.9%-AbV. These are both new 16oz cans and stay tuned for more details. zzubreebym

This 21 July 2022 update from Jester King:

LE PETIT PRINCE FARMHOUSE TABLE BEER IN CANS

July 20, 2022

Le Petit Prince Farmhouse Table Beer in cans.

This feels a little surreal to write. It has certainly been a long-time coming. We first brewed Le Petit Prince Farmhouse Table Beer in 2012. We’ve been brewing it once or twice per year since. Originally inspired by Brasserie Dupont’s table beer called Avril. We sought to make a low-alcohol beer that’s dry, drinkable, refreshing, crisp, hoppy with a little bit of beguiling yeast character that only wild fermentation with native yeast can create. Le Petit Prince is probably our favorite beer we make. It’s certainly the truest to our core philosophy of beer making.

After having people ask if we’d ever put it in cans for about a decade, we finally decided to. The recipe is well water from the Trinity Aquifer, Texas-grown malted barley and wheat, a blend of organic Perle and Fuggle hops from The Oregon Hophouse (both kettle and dry hops), and natural fermentation with native yeast. We always release it very fresh so the hop character is still vibrant. In this case, Le Petit Prince is a little younger and fresher than we normally release it, as the beer was force carbonated prior to canning, as opposed to our normal natural conditioning in bottles.

We hope you enjoy the inaugural Le Petit Prince Farmhouse Table Beer canning run! We think the crisp hoppiness, herbal bitterness, and low-alcohol dryness will be a nice flavor combination this Texas summer. We will most certainly continue to bottle Le Petit Prince in the future (in some green bottles too)!

Available today at 2pm onsite and for curbside pickup at the link: https://www.toasttab.com/jesterkingbrewery/v3. 50 cases available. 16oz. four-pack cans = $12. Proxies welcome. Shipping & delivery illegal in Texas.

Artwork by Joshua Cockrell. Photo by Regan Vaca.

This 5 Aug 2022 update from Jester King:

Happy International Beer Day! We’re excited to announce the return of Bitter Death — our Extra Hoppy Belgian-Style Pale Ale. For our second batch, we’ve packaged it in 16oz. cans in addition to draft.

Dry, bitter, drinkable, low-to-moderate ABV with some interesting fermentation character — that’s a key mantra of ours when it comes to beer. And that’s what Bitter Death is all about. We brewed a 5.0% abv pale beer with San Jacinto 2-row malted barley and Denton County wheat malt from TexMalt, Perle, Hallertauer Mittelfrüh, and Tettnanger hops. We fermented in stainless steel with Antwerp yeast from White Labs, as we really like the clean, crisp character we get from it with just a background note of fruity esters. After fermentation we dry hopped with more Hallertauer Mittelfrüh and Tettnanger. The result is beautiful, drinkable blend of herbal bitterness, crisp-cracker malt, and soft, mellow, subtle Belgian yeast character. This is definitely a beer profile we like to drink at Jester King, enjoy!

Available today at 2pm onsite and for curbside pickup here: https://bit.ly/3OQQrzW. 50 cases available. 16oz. four-pack cans = $16. Proxies welcome. Shipping & delivery illegal in Texas.

Artwork by Joshua Cockrell

: Regan Vaca