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Kind of Blue
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Our third iteration of Kind of Blue is a blend of light-bodied blonde ales aged in French oak and matured on 900 pounds of beautiful, biodynamically grown, Duke, Spartan, and Reka blueberries from our neighbors next door at King Estate Winery. For this year’s version, we actually fermented the beer twice on blueberries, yielding a stunning deep magenta color. It’s notoriously hard to capture flavor from real blueberries because they’re so subtle, but we are incredibly pleased with how they burst out of the glass in this beer. Compared to previous iterations, this beer is softer on the acidity with hints of vanilla layered in from the oak aging process that evoke memories of Grandma’s blueberry cobbler.
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Barrels
French oakABV
7.3%Microbes
Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, LactobacillusAvailability
Tasting Rooms, ClubRelease
November 2021Prior Vintages
2017 | 2019 -
Slow-roasted pork shoulder, arugula salad with lemon vinaigrette and chèvre, angel food cake with strawberries and cream
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This beer was brewed back in April of 2016 and aged in barrels that previously held Anne Amie Vineyards Pinot Noir that we added about one pound per gallon of blueberries to. Over the long maturation period these barrels picked up a ton of color from the berries in each barrel and a good amount of acidity. We then “barreled-up” (racking the beer out of barrels) into one of our small stainless tanks on another 500lbs of blueberries from Organic Redneck farms out on the McKenzie River. The beer went through its third fermentation on these berries for another month before racking off of the berries and into package. As always this beer was 100% bottle carbonated and conditioned for about 8 weeks prior to its release!
Kind of Blue pours a vibrant crimson color with tight carbonation. The aroma is of ripe blueberries and oak vanillin. Kind of Blue is bursting with blueberry flavor intertwined with a pleasant but very present acidity that lingers on your pallet.
Cheers!
Brian
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