Freckled Mary is a blend of our barrel fermented wild ales that was aged on an obscene amount of Bishop’s Orchards blueberries for three months.
This beer pours a thick and rich deep purple in color and has an intense aroma of blueberry cobbler. Its flavor profile is dominated by a huge mouthful of ripe blueberries, concord grapes, blackberries, and boysenberries.
Freckled Mary is the quintessential expression of our wild ale program for the end of summer into early fall. It is a refresher that will help one get through the waning days of warmth and into the brisk months ahead.
Living in Connecticut has a massive perk - four full seasons. More importantly, three of those seasons run cool. Cool nights allow for me to be able to do a coolship, leaving my kettle out overnight to collect yeast. I have done this in mid-Spring, and now have done one to usher in Fall. The […]
I am a sucker for lagers. As my palate has changed over time, I've moved far away from hoppy IPAs and Pale Ales and more towards malt-forward lagers. However much I love the style of beer, the one factor in keeping me from brewing them is the fact I do not have a fermentation chamber […]
Riwaka™ is a hop I have been fascinated with ever since I first tried Hill Farmstead's Riwaka Pale Ale. I had been trying, for years, to source this hop, but it has never been available to United States home-brewers before this past winter. Thanks to Yakima Valley Hops, however, that changed. I immediately placed an […]
