Sovereign Brewing

Double bottle release today! We snuck these on draft a couple weeks ago, and if you’ve had a chance to try them, you know how tasty they are. Now available in 500 ml bottles!

WEEPING HAND: a blend of coolshipped ales aged for extended periods in oak, then refermented on raspberries. Fruit aromas meld with wild microflora. Powerful round, acidity hits the palate first, followed by a long wave of juicy raspberry goodness. $11

SAISON w/CHARDONNAY: oak aged saison, re-fermented on Chardonnay grapes. Later keg conditioned for an extended period on one of our favorite brett strains, drying it out tremendously and providing a dusty “sweet tarts” kind of candy note on the finish. A total crusher. $16

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Helllllllllo sexy! Real nice package in the mail today.

2 YEARS. I wonder if time passes this quickly for the beers in barrels. We are super excited to drop a handful of treats on all y’all tomorrow, in celebration of keeping things afloat this long.

In order of appearance, we are finally putting out our first unfruited, all-spontaneous beer! Apocryphal is a blend of 3 ages of coolship beers, (17, 15 and 12 months) aged in both puncheons and Bordeaux barrels. Bottle conditioned for 15 months, with a spritzy 3 volumes of CO2, for a lively pour. Decidedly tart, with lambic-esque aged Styrian Golding hops and subtle funk from the natural micro flora inherited in the coolship. $12/500ml, and we conditioned a number of kegs, too!

Speaking of coolships, a fun trick is to use them as open-top fermenters. By cooling the wort before castoff and pitching yeast, we are able to get a unique fermentation profile. The flat shape of the vessel and the absence of hydrostatic pressure, the continuously present oxygen during the first few days, and the convection patterns all play into the way the beer turns out. This is how we made Temple of Folly, a spelt lager. We then aged it in spent barrels for 6 months and keg conditioned it. With just the slightest hint of acidity, it is a very unique, snappy little number at 4.5%.

We also have a rad new tee shirt made with elements of designs for our Poly Rythmo labels, and speaking of, we are now selling backstock labels for $1, for you collectors out there.