Wildflower Hive: Post Brood (Blend #3) (1500ml)
STYLE: Wild
REGION: Marrickville, NSW
SIZE: 1500ml
ABV: 7.0%
BIG BOTTLE.
It's difficult to overstate the impact of Wildflower since its inception only a few years ago in 2017. Hailing from Texas, Topher Boehm has an impressive resume - from Brasserie Thiriez to Jester King to his background in astrophysics - not to mention his unique house yeast. Cultivated from foraged wildflowers native to NSW, think wattle blossoms and banksia, blended with a Belgian saison strain, creating something truly individual which speaks of place. Topher even sprayed the entire brewery with inoculated wort when he moved in, just to make sure everything was literally covered in the house culture.
"Hive: Post Brood is A collaboration with our friends, and honey superstars Tim and Emma from Malfroy's Gold honey, Hive: Post Brood is a barrel aged golden Australian Wild Ale refermented with natural formed Warré hive post-brood wild comb from the Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands of NSW. The Malfroy's Post Brood Polyflora is unlike any honey I have ever tasted and indeed a unique product. The beer is our aged Gold refermented and macerated on the left over comb, untreated or heated... just natural, after Tim’s milling and gravity straining of the post brood comb. He doesn’t spin or press the comb, just lets time do its thing. But what happens is that there is still a bit of honey clinging to the waxy comb (along with all the other good propolis, bee bread and pollen).
At release this blend shows floral, forestry and mossy aromas. Propolis herbal spice and waxy bubblegum. A heady, sticky intense nose. The palate is full of bright orange citrus, beeswax, mead, eucalypt. Complex and evolving with a restrained acidity allowing the honey to shine.
Each bottle is dipped in the same wax post-refermentation in this beer, there may be small residue still of propolis in the wax leaving black specks in the golden yellow (super aromatic BTW) beeswax." -Topher