Modern Times Releasing Empty Hats, News From Nowhere & Monster’s Playground
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From Modern Times:
Our barrel program has been kicking out some insanely tasty beverages this year, and we just released three of our latest bottles of barrel-aged ambrosia for your purchasing pleasure on BPT. Currently on offer are two beautifully complex red wine barrel-aged sours and a sour stout with citrus zest that is a straight-up party machine. Descriptions, pricing, & bottle limits below.
The first day to pick-up bottles will be this Thursday 4/21, and as usual, we’ll be hosting a release party here at the Fermentorium that day from 12PM to 10PM with some special beers on tap, followed by the standard two month pick-up window (which means you’ll have until 6/16/16 to grab your bottles, 7/14/16 if you’re a League member).
We are particularly excited for this sale because it marks the second time we will release our foundational sours, Empty Hats and News From Nowhere. These beers are the pinnacle of our sour game, and the second editions have definitively improved on the first. They are identifiably the same beers, but the second editions are more complex and offer several more layers of flavor and aroma. Both of these beers will age marvelously for years since they contain numerous live cultures; snagging a few for your cellar is strongly recommended.
Here are all the fascinating details:
EMPTY HATS
We aged this Oud Bruin-style ale for over a year in red wine barrels with an array of cultures that added loads of sour, funky character. The result is a beer bursting with dark fruit and sporting a beautiful malt complexity, with a noticeable oak presence and an exceptionally long, lingering finish. Fermented with our house Lomaland yeast culture before a secondary mixed fermentation with Lactobacillus and Pediococcus, this dark brown sour draws its funky complexity from several different strains of Brettanomyces.
ABV: 7.4%
Price: $28+tax & BPT fee
Bottle Limit:3
Total Quantity:852
NEWS FROM NOWHERE
This tart, complex Flanders Red-style ale spent over a year aging in red wine barrels while mingling with an exceptionally diverse mix of sour/funky cultures. The resulting beer is bursting with bright, acidic red fruit flavor & aroma, with a noticeable oak presence and an exceptionally long, lingering finish. Fermentation began with our house Lomaland yeast culture, but its robust sourness is the result of a secondary mixed fermentation of Lactobacillus and Pediococcus. Several different strains of Brettanomyces add a funky, earthy wildness to this exceptional sour.
ABV: 8.7%
Price: $28+tax & BPT fee
Bottle Limit:3
Total Quantity:840
MONSTERS’ PLAYGROUND
This beer is a knee-buckling curveball of tastiness. Made from the second runnings of our hulking, cantankerous imperial stout, Monsters’ Playground is a sour stout topped off with citrus zest. Fermented with Saccharomyces, Lactobacillus, and Brettanomyces, it gets good and funky during a lengthy aging on oak. While it’s not your typical combination of flavors, the result is roasty, tart, and flagrantly complex. It tastes alarmingly good in your mouth.
ABV: 9%
Price: $15+tax & BPT fee
Bottle Limit:6
Total Quantity:1332
We’re mega-stoked on these new releases and, judging from the feedback from the League preview tasting, we think you will be, too. You can purchase these beauties HERE.
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