Saturday 5/29 we’ll release bottles of our new barrel-aged sour beer, Bestagon gin-barrel-aged red with thyme honey)! We’ll have a keg of it on tap for the release and Jimmy’s Famous Seafood will be at the tasting room!

This is our once-a-year honey beer for 2021! 2020’s Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather was a funky saison with local wildflower honey. Bestagon is sort of the opposite, an acidic red, with more focused/characterful thyme honey. We aged it in a variety of gin barrels. The result is herbal, in a cocktail more than a culinary sense. The brightness of the piney juniper from the gin barrels leads, followed by rich malt, and finishing with dusty herbaceousness. Given the acidity, maltiness, and herbal flavors I can’t think of a better backyard barbecue beer! Caramel and toasted malt to match the sear on whatever you are cooking, acid to cut richness, and savory to round it out! This is the sort of beer that should age beautifully too.