Odious Cellars

🍺 New Beer Release: 𝗛𝗲𝗳𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻!

Yup. Just a classic German Hefe right in time for summer. 🌞

No frills, no poetic sentence for a name, and no wackadoo adjuncts. (We'll announce a new bevvy with all of these soon 😉)

Our Hefe pours a cloudy, golden complexion with a luscious, dense head from the major supply of foam positive proteins found in wheat. 👑

This light-bodied bevvy delicately emits tangy banana and a touch of clove spice; a harmoniously thirst-quenching duo imparted from the expressive yeast strain.

🚛 Hitting Chicagoland shelves... now!
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😛 Tasting Notes | 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗮 🍯🐝

Our pal recently gave us some frou-frou tasting notes (ala slide #2) and we figured we'd pop in with our thoughts on this Biere de Miel brewed with raw Illinois Orange Blossom Honey from & Honeysuckle Petals:

👀 | Mostly clear, with a slight haze that traps in sunlight, creating a luminous chalice somewhere between burnished copper and a freshly cast golden ingot.

👃 | Candied mandarin citrus, rich jasmine, and a hint of vanilla invade the aromasphere. Hell, maybe even a waft of geraniums. No doubt from the heavy dose of Honeysuckle petals steeped in the whirlpool.

👄 | The Orange Blossom Honey takes center stage with heavy waves of butterscotch & vanilla, with hints of orange zest in the finish. It's wild how much of the original honey character translates into the finished product.

👅 | A lighter carbonation keeps Tears of Ra soft on the tongue; portraying slightly more body and a fuller mouthfeel.
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𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙚.

Odious Lore | The Gilded River: 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢

A wide but shallow waterway abutting a center of commerce, the Gilded River is so named for the coins, valuables, and treasures which litter the riverbed just below the bows of the many passing vessels. Local legend has it that Ra, gatekeeper between this world and the next, lives beneath the river and requires tribute for safe passage; the true deity that resides below the hulls is much older than that.

Tears of Ra recalls a traveler upon the Gilded River who, thinking himself clever, dared to attempt the crossing without a single in his purse. As he rowed across the water, he vowed to the river that the boat immediately behind his own would be carrying his tribute, and their offering would necessarily be double.

The god beneath the waves soon sorted out the traveler's mischief, but at the expense of both the boats and all their passengers contained within. Very few have attempted this gambit since.
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