Founders Club Renewal 2024

Founders Club Renewals

Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed your membership in the 2023 Founders Club! You have until November 15th to decide whether you want to renew your Founders Club membership for 2024 or switch to either Sap Club or Wood Club. At that point we’ll open any remaining spots to other 2023 club members. The clubs will run from January 1st through December 31st, 2024. Members will have the right of first refusal for membership in the club for 2025.

The Founders Club remains mostly unchanged for 2024, with 10%-off pretty much everything! Pours, 10%-off. 4-pack, 10%-off. Crowlers, growlers, and even merch and parties are all 10%-off! Barrel-aged bottle discounts are covered below, but otherwise the only things the discount won’t apply to are gift cards and experiences. Same benefits to pre-order cans that we’ll hold for a couple of weeks so you can avoid the mad rush of release days.

We’ll continue to offer special “club-mostly” variant crowlers weekly. During 2023 they have included one-off hoppy beers (e.g., Mad Fermentations and TDH), heavily fruited Smuzi sours (like Raspberry Cheesecake and Ube), unique one-offs (featuring Sauvignon Blanc Grapes, and Smoke) and vintage/infused stouts (SCCC, Vanilla Bean Situation)! Club members will still be able to get a growler fill of the rare special limited beers not in crowlers.

Events

We’ll hold a Founders-only Barrel Blending Day next fall (reminder to RSVP for 11/12 or 11/18) to create two exclusive club blends. Members receive a bottle of each blend.

In 2023 we started holding roughly-quarterly Founders Club bottle shares. We’ll continue those in 2024! They are a fun excuse to crack a few magnums, talk about beer, and open bottles that have been cluttering our brewery (and your basements)!

2024 club members will have early access and discounts on our sixth-anniversary party next September and the holiday party in December 2024!

The 2024 club will still include 16 bottles of barrel-aged mixed fermentation beer, but the breakdown will provide more variety!

• Two bottles each of two club-exclusive beers
• One bottle each of 12 additional releases
• Exclusive club glass and t-shirt
• 15%-discount on additional barrel-aged sour bottles

We won’t have a set release schedule, as the beers will tell us when they are ready, but we’ll allow semi-annual pickups. Plus 15%-off and priority access to pre-purchase limited sour beers and ciders before the general public!

We can’t guarantee any of the beers below given the vagaries of sour beer magic and fruit sourcing, but these are some of the beers we have in the works for 2024.

Two Bottles Each:

• Blueberry Barrel-Aged and Mosaic Dry Hopped Pale Ale
• PX Sherry Cask Marylambic

One Bottle Each:

• Gindicators 4 (Gin Barrel aged with Peaches, Nectarines, and Apricots)
• Scuppernog/Muscadine Pale Sour (Old Mother Collab)
• Barbera Grape and Sour Cherry Pale Sour (Pen Druid Collab)
• Cherry Brandy Barrel Opulence (Sour cherry Red)
• Madeira Barrel Vin de Cereale
• Carbonic Sauvignon Blanc grape Sour Pale Ale
• Neologism (Gin Barrel and Mosaic Dry Hopped – the first batch was named to Craft Beer & Brewing’s Top 20 of 2022)
• Stained 2024 (Raspberry and Merlot grapes)
• Elliptical Orbit 2024 (Dark Saison with Pomegranate Molasses and Cardamom)
• Quad soured in Bourbon Barrels with Dried Fruit
• Barrel-aged Sour Red
• Barrel-aged Brett Saison

Other potential releases of old favorites and new projects:

• Russian River Brewing Collab
• Afterthought Brewing Collab
• Vin de Cereale with fruit (Ruby/Amethyst Throne)

Cellars Add-on 2024

The Cellars Club add-on returns in 2024! Membership includes bottles of and discounts on our “clean” barrel-aged barrel program: mostly imperial stouts (with occasional barleywines etc.). Each membership includes one bottle each of six releases with priority access and 10%-off additional bottles of all releases.

Bottles we plan to include:

• BSAJ 2024 (Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout with Almonds, Coconut, Cacao, and Vanilla Beans)
• I.W. Harper Barrel Aged Stout (Barrels were Silver Oak Cabernet, then used to finish 15-year Weller Bourbon)
• BSCV 2024 (Bourbon Stout Coconut Vanilla)
• Munich Wine in 15-year 1792 Bourbon Barrels
• Sagamore 7-year Rye Finished Double Barrel 24 Hour Stout
• Weller Barrel Meadowfoam Honey Barleywine

Other potential releases:

• Imperial Stout in Old Elk Cognac-finish Wheated Whiskey Barrels
• Imperial Stout in 15-year Widow Jane with Coffee
• Bridge 4 – South American Rum Barrel Quad
• English Barleywine in Weller Barrels (Collab with Jailbreak Brewing)
• Barrel Threads 2024
• Vanilla Threads 2024
• Banana Peanut Butter Stout in BLiS Maple-Bourbon
• Cabernet Franc Barrel Stout with Cabernet Franc Grapes
• Munich Wine in Oloroso Sherry Cask

Limited-run magnums will be occasionally available featuring one-off-blends and over-the-top adjuncts!