Wildflower Playing with Fire Wild Ale 750ml

Australian Wild Ale created for the 2019 Terroir Project Festival, which Firestone Walker Brewing Company designed and will host. Golden wort is fermented alongside hand-picked Semillon bunches from Tyrrell's Estate in Pokolbin, New South Wales.

Similar to the previously released "Touched by the Side of the Sun," we packed a tonne of freshly picked Semillon grapes into a single 500-liter puncheon barrel in January 2019. We then covered the barrel with our Gold wort and let the wort develop entirely using the native yeast on the grapes. Until being removed from the grapes for bottling in September 2019 and conditioned in bottles for an additional 8 months before release, the beer fermented with and macerated on the grapes for 8 months in barrel. Other than the yeast that was already present on the grape skins at harvest, we added neither any of our own house culture nor any foreign yeast.

A creamy lemon aroma, recollections of dandelion fields, and a skinsy, earthy ingredient close out the senses. The base Gold beer seamlessly transitions into the more vinous aromas on the palate, which is clear, dry, and compact. Semillon wine has a stronger resemblance to St. Florence 2019: Semillon.