The Big Sleep
- Filedwith the TTB
- Cleared25 November 2019
- SpottedNot yet — watching
Register-wide, a cleared beer typically surfaces at its brewery within 17 days — four out of five inside 29 — measured across 137 filings we've watched land. This page gets stamped the moment it's seen.
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This filing went on record 25 November 2019, before the beer reached a shelf. Every week's new filings, read and delivered Tuesday morning.
This is the 6th of 10 label filings we hold from The Referend Bier Blendery. It is one of 38 wild / brett / lambic-style labels approved in November 2019. It cleared 13 days after it was filed. 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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