Hop Grail
Metamorphoses
- Wild / Brett / Lambic-style
- 5.9% ABV
- Label approved Oct 27, 2019
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The Referend Bier Blendery's Wild / Brett / Lambic-style. Label approved 27 October 2019.
Lighter than 72% of the 297 Wild Ale labels we've read.
From the label“Metamorphoses is our spontaneously fermented golden ale aged in oak barrels with both elderflower and elderberry. In the spring we harvest the elderflower, adding the hand-destemmed local NJ blossoms to the barrel for a brief maceration in 1.5-year-old beer. Then, in the summer, the flowers we left unpicked bear their fruit (:the elderberry!), which we add directly to the aromatized beer in oak for refermentation. "Man, tree of images, words which are flowers become fruits which are deeds" -Octavio Paz”
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 8th of 14 labels we have from The Referend Bier Blendery. It is one of 78 wild / brett / lambic-style labels approved in October 2019. Its label was approved 47 days after it was submitted. The label carries barrel-aged, fruited 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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