Hop Grail
The Big Sleep
- Wild / Brett / Lambic-style
- 5.5% ABV
- Label approved Nov 25, 2019
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The Referend Bier Blendery's Wild / Brett / Lambic-style. Label approved 25 November 2019.
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This is the 10th of 14 labels we have from The Referend Bier Blendery. It is one of 40 wild / brett / lambic-style labels approved in November 2019. Its label was approved 13 days after it was submitted. The label carries barrel-aged on the front.
From the label“THE BIG SLEEP was blended intended for Writing Degree Zero, but nature's writing is here arrested in its dream state. Blended across three barrels aged one to two years, for an average of nineteen months, this blend was bottled without dosage, relying instead on the unreliable: the natural presence of extant yeast and residual sugar. After one year in the bottle, the life within still sleeps, so expect stillness. It may reawaken in months, years, or decades; it may stay sleeping the big sleep. I was still enjoying the last shreds of sleep, that is to say of the only inventiveness, the only novelty that exists in story-telling, since none of our narrations in the waking state, even though they be adorned with literary graces, admit those mysterious differences from which beauty derives. -MARCEL PROUST”
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