Hop Grail
Metamorfosis
- Wild / Brett / Lambic-style
- 5.9% ABV
- Label approved Sep 25, 2019
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The Referend Bier Blendery's Wild / Brett / Lambic-style. Label approved 25 September 2019.
Lighter than 72% of the 297 Wild Ale labels we've read.
From the label“Metamorfosis is our spontaneously fermented golden ale aged in oak barrels in which we steep freshly picked, hand-destemmed local NJ elderflower. This first edition was aged for eighteen months prior to refermentation in this bottle. Are facts not flowers and flowers facts or poems flowers or all works of the imagination interchangeable? -William Carlos Williams”
How to serve it
- Serve at
- 46–54°F (8–12°C)
- Glass
- Teku: a stemmed bowl that gathers aroma, built for sour and hoppy beers
- Goes with
- Goat cheese and brie, Mushroom dishes, Fruit desserts
About 150–180 calories and 9–16 g carbs
About 115 of those calories come from the alcohol.
General guidance for Wild / Brett / Lambic-style. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools
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About this beer
This is the 6th of 14 labels we have from The Referend Bier Blendery. It is one of 41 wild / brett / lambic-style labels approved in September 2019. Its label was approved 15 days after it was submitted. The label carries barrel-aged on the front.
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A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.
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