The Carrot King (375ml) – limit 4

$13.00

Lambic Inspired Wild Ale w/ Carrot Juice

The Carrot King is a collaboration with our friends at Hop Culture Magazine and their artist Sam Taylor. These gents put on the Juicy Brews festivals around the country, and we’re stoked to have poured at 3 of them so far (Tucson, Oakland, & Richmond). I’d been wanting to expirement with carrots for a while, and it just seemed obvious to make a juice beer for Juicy Brews. There’s also a collaboration glassware which can be purchased HERE.

This is the fist barrel of our “lambic inspired” base that we’ve packaged (though it’s currently in some upcoming blends such as our 2nd anniversary beer & Le Con batch 2). At least for now, I don’t think I’m afraid of using that term in the description as long as I put “inspired” after it. It’s just a fact that it is inspired by that tradition, and that’s the simplest way to portray that without having to use a whole sentence. Anyway, this base does not use a turbid mash or spontaneous fermentation, but it does use local raw heirloom wheat (from Tehachapi Grain Project), a super long 3.5 hour boil, lots of aged hops, and minimum 1 year oak aging. So far we’ve done 5 batches (4 barrels each) and I’m really loving how they’re tasting! We chose it for this beer simply because I thought it tasted best with the juice, and because the carrots we end up using are from the same farm that grew the wheat for the base beer.

This beer uses a pretty idiosyncratic process that I don’t think any other breweries are doing. We get whole local carrots and juice them in house, then use that juice as the bottle conditioning sugar. This is how we keep all that really awesome orange color! But it also means we have to process the fruit and bottle on the same day. The juice does separate and settle to the bottle of the bottle, so it’s really important that you rotate the bottle a few times right before opening it. Don’t shake it or anything like that; I like to gently swirl while holding the bottle upside down, and then rotate a few more times. You can also read more about this beer and it’s process on our blog HERE.

We are really really stoked on this beer. The flavors are extremely cool. You might not even guess that the flavor is carrot if you didn’t know (and if your eyes were closed). Most people who’ve tried it say it tastes like a herbed or spiced beer, and some even get actually spiciness from it. I don’t know how this will age, so I also strongly recommend drinking it relatively fresh, within 6 months I think is ideal. Please let us know how you like it; if the response is good we’ll probably do it again next year when carrots are in season again. Cheers!

6.0%abv

375 ml bottle (limit 4)

 

 

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