
It has complex citrus and berry fruit notes with hints of bourbon and toasted almond. 5.4%įRUITOPIAN NOYAUX, Cascade Brewing: Two years ago, Cascade Brewing released Fruitopian Noyaux, a blend of a sour triple and a wheat ale that is aged for up to 24 months in oak wine and bourbon barrels with tangerine peel, blackcap raspberries and apricot noyaux. Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier is the gold standard of the style and is hard to beat. You might even detect some bubble-gum-like flavors.

The yeasts contribute the banana and clove aromas associated with the style. It’s unfiltered, giving it a cloudy appearance and a prominent yeastiness. Everything the brewery produces is well worth sampling, but the Hefeweissbier is something special. Today the brewery is owned by the State of Bavaria and is the “house” lab for a top brewing- and fermentation-sciences school. HEFEWEISSBIER, Weihenstephaner: Weihenstephaner lays claim to being Germany’s oldest continuous operating brewery, tracing its roots to an abbey brewery officially licensed in 1040, with evidence in the abbey’s records that it was receiving hops (and therefore probably brewing) as early as 768. Demonteller is a Brett-influenced, foudre-aged saison that is tart, oaky, spicy and light in body. That careful aging process means that sometimes the date the beer is released is not as important to co-founders and brewers Mike Murphy and Colin Lenfesty as it might be to other brewers. More than half its beers are aged in oak barrels at some point on their way to your glass. …ĭEMONTELLER, Holy Mountain Brewing: Holy Mountain Brewing Company is built on a foundation of oak.


Today’s Morning Foam was compiled while, thank gawd, watching the Jonas Brothers Carpool Karaoke. Morning Foam: The Twang Junkies, Great Notion party, Holy Mountain Demonteller GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!
