Side Project Releasing Sulla Terra 2020

Some of you may not be familiar with Sulla Terra. Sulla Terra is a blended Barrel-Aged Barleywine by our brewer Brian Ivers. Brian blended up the first blend in January of 2019 and for the 2020 release, we let him have free reign in our barrel room for this blended, barrel-aged Barleywine. Brian has had a knack for brewing some of our favorite malty beers, and his blend here is no exception.

While blending For Gabe, as we had samples from every corner of our barrel room free for the tasting, Brian started honing in on what he wanted the 2020 release of this to taste like. He ended up tediously blending and deciding on a beautiful blend that consists of:

Barrel 397 – Experimental English Barleywine aged in a Maple Syrup Weller 12 barrel for 18 months
Barrels 370, 371, 372 – Anabasis aged in Blanton’s barrels (blend 4 barrels) for 21 months
Barrels 332, 333 – MJK aged in Willett Bourbon barrels for 25 months

The success in flavor and uniqueness of these blended Barleywines and Barleywine/Stout blends has been a new, fun, invigorating challenge for us brewers and is something that we want to focus on in the future. Brian’s Sulla Terra has been a huge inspiration for a future blended Barleywine for Side Project as well.

Sulla Terra will be available for online reservations in our shop – sideprojectbrewing.com/shop – starting Tuesday morning 8/25. We will be including this beer in a package and it will be limited to 1 package per person.

We at Side Project want to once again thank all of you for your continued support of our brewery. We truly miss seeing you on the other side of the bar, enjoying our beer and our place, and also giving our brewery its life. Cheers from the whole Side Project team and we hope you enjoy this Barrel-Aged Barleywine as much as we do.