Blend of Masumoto Wild Ales w/ Raspberries, Vanilla, & Lavender
One-off blend of barrel-aged mixed-culture beers with Masumoto peaches and nectarines, finished with red raspberries, Madagascar vanilla beans, and foraged French lavender. Blended for Woodshop 11 to commemorate the The 8th Annual Woodshop Tasting event from 10/26/2013, held at The Hermosillo in Highland Park, CA.
Woodshop 8 was the first that I attended back in 2013 at The Hermosillo, and I have lots of nostalgia for that event. I was a relatively new homebrewer and that year had switched to doing only sours. Cellador was just a proverbial twinkle in our eyes, as they say. Highland park brewery was mostly built out but not functional quite yet. That was the first time I met Bob Kunz; I picked his brain for a while about sour beers. That’s also actually the first time that I met Chris Q. We later became Facebook friends and upon seeing a post of some fruited sour beers I was making, he offered to give us a couple boxes of Masumoto peaches to mess around with. That was 2014 which means this will be my 5th year of using Masumoto fruit in beer. Time flies.
This beer is inspired by one of the infamous Woodshop beer floats. We came up with a secret blend of four different Cellador Peach beer releases, enough to fill one 59 gallon oak barrel. We then re-fermented that peach blend on roughly half a pound per gallon of whole organic red raspberries. We also added the vanilla at that time into the barrel, only a quarter pound. After a few weeks we transferred the beer into our small brite tank and Chris brought over a few handfuls of Lavender that he had “‘scavenged” (read: stole from the front yard of a house he used to live at). We suspended the lavender into the beer and monitored the flavor closely. After roughly 2 hours we felt the flavor was right, and we immediately bottled the beer.
This is our first time using spices at Cellador, and it’s sort of dictated how we’ve done other spice/herb infusions since then. I really like the idea of layering extra flavors one at a time. Dialing in each component to perfection. The goal of this blend was subtlety, which we mostly pulled off I think. The peaches are present but not overpowering. The raspberries give a nice orange/red hue to the beer and add to the complexity. The vanilla comes on very strong for how little we used. And the lavender explodes aromatically, really bringing the whole team together. I’m really proud of how this beer turned out, and I hope you enjoy it.
The artwork was done by McNulty Design with input and inspiration from myself and Chris. We wanted to pay homage visually to each of the ingredients in this beer. There will be one keg on tap at Woodshop 12 in April. Cheers!
6.5%
375 ml bottle
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