Exclusivity:
We
will be brewing Rare Bottle Club beers exclusively for members and not for the
general public. Any excess bottles from batches will be either made available
to members for purchase or cellared for later "club only" vintage
releases.
Cancellation:
Fees
for our bottle club are not refundable and memberships cannot be cancelled by
members for any reason. We can't think of many reasons to cancel anyone's
membership ourselves, but we do reserve the right to do so.
Tentative Release Plans
-2x 375s Biere de Coupage Batch 2
Biere de Coupage is
our Solera Style wild ale. This beer was created by blending some of Odd
Breed’s first beers into one 500L French Oak Puncheon on November 8th
of 2017. Broken Tail (wild witbier), Golden Eyes (golden wild ale), Dinkel
Wheat (spelt saison), and Biere d’Avril (wild lager) were used in the original
blend, and on May 15th of 2018, two thirds of the puncheon was
emptied to create Biere de Coupage Batch 1. That same day the puncheon was then
refilled with Past & Future, our flagship saison. As such, Batch 2 of Biere
de Coupage is a blend of one third Biere de Coupage Batch 1 (now barrel aged
for a total of 20 months) and two thirds Past & Future barrel aged for 14
months. Because these blends mingled together for 14 months in the same barrel,
the resulting beer is more cohesive and complex than what could be achieved
from simply blending Batch 1 of Biere de Coupage with 14-month barrel aged Past
& Future. 5.5% ETA October/November
2019
-2x 375s Wild Lager w/Angelcots (White-Flesh Apricots)
For this beer we are utilizing
a special version of Biere d’Avril (our wild lager) that was brewed in June of
2017, and barrel aged for 21 months. We then refermented on Angelcots at a rate
of 3 pounds per gallon of beer. Angelcots are a unique varietal of white-flesh
apricots from California that are incredibly juicy with a sweet honey, almost
tangerine-like flavor. They have a very short growing season and this specialty
varietal was not easy to acquire. Apricots
are a high acid fruit, so to balance the acidity of the fruit we picked our
wild lager as our base beer, which has soft acidity and layers of Brett funk
with pronounced French oak tannins. 6.5%
ETA November/December 2019
-2x 750s Mango Golden Wild Ale Dry Hopped with Wet Hops
We blended a couple of
our golden wild ales aged 14 months in French Oak puncheons, and then
refermented with organic mangos at a rate of 2.5 pounds per gallon. After
refermenting the mangos, this beer will be transferred to a tank filled with
fresh, wet hops. The varietal of wet hops chosen will depend on crop quality
and availability, and a hop which enhances the tropical notes from the mangos
will be used. Wet hops are picked at peak ripeness and then flown overnight
from the Yakima Valley in Washington State, so that they can be added to our
beer within 24 hours of being picked from the bine. Compared to dried hops, wet
hops feature unique, intense aromatics and flavors that typically exude notes
of ripe stone fruit, melon, and citrus. Some people may remember a Citra wet
hopped beer I made four years ago, which had delicious notes of gooseberries,
sauvignon blanc, and mandarin orange. The logistics of overnighting wet hops to
Florida make this a challenging undertaking, but the results are worth the
effort. Unlike other wet hopped beers, wild ales that are dry hopped with wet
hops age surprisingly well. 6.5% ETA
January/February 2020
-2x 750s Halo Kibbles/Moras Blended into freshly emptied Pinot Noir
barrels w/Black Currants and Black Mulberries
We blended an equal
amount of Halo Kibbles (golden wild ale with 2.5 pounds per gallon of red
raspberries) and Moras (golden wild ale with 2.5 pounds per gallon of
blackberries) into freshly emptied French oak Pinot Noir barrels, and
refermented in those barrels with Black Currants and Black Mulberries. The
second round of fruit refermentation in fresh Pinot Noir barrels ensures that
this blend will be redolent of fresh berries and red wine, with plenty of
tannins and jammy juices. This beer is blended from four brews with different
recipes–
the oldest part of this blend is over 24 months old, while the youngest portion
is 18 months old. 6.5% ETA February/March
2020
-2x 375s Lambic Inspired Spontaneous beer w/Black Raspberries
On January 3rd
of 2018 we created our first spontaneous beer at Odd Breed, and to be certain
that this is a true spontaneous beer and not inoculated with our house mixed
culture, we aged the beer in freshly emptied French Oak Sangiovese wine
puncheons that were imported from Italy. We refermented this beer with Black
Raspberries at a rate of 2 pounds per gallon of beer. Black Raspberries provide
a deeper color, more tannins, and a blackberry jam note that is missing from
the more typical red varietal of raspberries. While this beer is fruit forward,
the turbid mash and aged hops, along with Pompano terroir and 2 years of aging,
make this an incredibly unique and complex beer. This beer is as close as we
can get to making a Lambic in Florida. (True Lambic can only be made within the
Senne Valley in Belgium) 6.5% ETA March/April 2020
-2x 750s TBD
