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Amber Blend #36 - Tasting Notes
This latest blend has a beautiful sweet nose of soft caramel, malt and toasted bread. It’s enveloping, with warm oak and brown spices. A palate lined with sweet raisins, vanilla and cocoa. It’s full and...
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St Thomas 2022
In 2022, St Thomas was made by blending barrel aged amber mixed culture fermentation ale with 748kg of fresh, whole, tree ripened stemmed and destemmed Morello sour cherries from Thornbrook Orchard in Nashdale, NSW.
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Ambrosia: Amaro
Ambrosia: Amaro is the first cuvee in a series of beers taking inspiration from the herbs, fruits and spices used in apéritifs and digestifs.
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Tendency to Rotate 2021
This year's blend is made of a single golden barrel aged ale aged on Montepulciano and Gamay wine grape skins from Ravensworth in Murrumbateman, NSW.
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Salt of the Earth - Ruggabellus Collaboration
Salt of the Earth is a collaborative ale made with Emma and Abel of Ruggabellus from just outside the Barossa in South Australia.
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Common Ground Autumn Ale: Harvest 2019 - Wildflower x Momento Mori Collaboration
Undeniable salinity on the nose, oyster shell and tidal pool before the ripe fruit takes over.. fresh pineapple and white stone fruits. The skinsy herbal spice floats in the background. Laser-like palate, tight and direct...
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How's the Serenity #3 - Tasting Notes
Robust nose, pronounced hop character, woody and resinous. Earthy spices and gentle citrus lead to a mild funky finish. Full palate, round with weight and texture, brown spices and herbal notes before the bitterness drives through...
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Organic Table Beer #8 - Tasting Notes
Lovely lift and intensity on the nose... bright citrus hop notes, soft earthy spice, gentle lemon zest interlaced by creamy soft grains. A really generous yet focussed palate, herbal spice and citrus in abundance. Hints...
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Gold Blend #36 - Tasting Notes
Extremely fruity nose, apricot and stone fruit to the fore. There’s creamy oak combining with hop spice, green melon and citrus to give a mouth watering sherbety pop. Big ripe fruits on the palate it’s...
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Spelt Beer Batch #1
Back in January, I flagged that the keen observer of our beer would likely recognise a renewed focus on simplicity this year, a preference for elegance, sustenance and comfort. That and an emphasis on bitterness,...
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Good as Gold Blend #16 - Tasting Notes
Wildflower Good as Gold Blend #16 will be available online and for take-away/collection from 12pm (Sydney time) on Friday 6 May 2022. Good as Gold is a 50/50 blend of barrel aged Gold with fresh Gold that has just completed primary fermentation....
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Hive: Post Brood Blend #4 - Tasting Notes
The aroma has big orange notes, fresh honeycomb and blossoms, it's sweet and somehow intoxicating. The familiar dark propolis spice element melds with more perfumed mead notes. Despite a heady aromatic punch the palate shows vibrancy and finesse... zippy citrus...
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St Phoebe 2021
In 2021, this beer was made from golden mixed fermentation, barrel aged beer and 996kg of fresh, tree ripened Ebony Sun plums hand picked from Thornbrook Orchard in Nashdale, NSW.
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Gold Blend #35 - Tasting Notes
Truly a good expression of our beer. Aromas of pear skin, zesty lemon, brown spice and sweet gentle vanilla. Toasty warm oak and spiced citrus. There’s a lovely warmth to the nose. Very balanced. Upfront limey citrus...
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Amber Blend #35 - Tasting Notes
A rather autumnal blend as it happens. On the nose we get sweet dried fruits, cocoa, toasted muesli and chocolate biscuits. The palate is rich and deep. Beautiful sweet malty lines, raisins and cola. Tempered acidity...
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Ashes to Ashes
A study in the nuance and layering of smoke flavours in beer. It is comprised of three seperate base beers and contains elements of smoked malt, smoke affected grapes and germinated, toasted Sydney Wattle Seed.
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Straight to the Poolroom
Made with organic grains: malted barley, chit malt, malted wheat and malted oats. It was well hopped with aged Summer hop flowers (AUS), fresh Pride of Ringwood (AUS) and Motueka (NZ). After four months in bottle,...
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Sensation of Colour
As the 2021 harvest was getting underway, James rang me up with an idea to marry this slightly obscure Piedmont aromatic red-skinned grape, Brachetto, with our beer.
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Village 2021 - Wildflower x Mountain Culture Collaboration
Village 2021 is an ale made with certified organic heritage malted barley, raw wheat and aged hops, all wholly grown in Australia. Brewed in Katoomba using an intensive turbid mash, extended three hour boil and...
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Organic Table Beer #7 - Tasting Notes
Very fresh. Aromas of pepper, citrus rind, and limey-hop. Palate is creamy. Layers of hop spice and clean mouth-watering citrus upfront. A nice rounded body again for such a small beer. I'm so so glad this...
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The Dog Days are Over
Dec 2016-Dec 2021, five years with the old culture. A good innings for sure. There are things already that I have missed about what it could do... we do feel like we were just starting...
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St Walter 2021: Gamay and Montepulciano
St Walter is an Australian Wild Ale made with red wine grapes. It is named for Topher and Bernadette’s first son. Saint Walter was an 11th century monk from the Loire Valley in France and...
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Distinctly Perceived 2021
Blend of ales fermented separately on Riesling and Viognier pomace organically grown by Bryan Martin at Ravensworth as well as organic Semillon pomace from M&J Becker and lastly, a hint of Zibibbo pomace from Ricca Terra via Sam Leyshon at...
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How's the Serenity #2 - Tasting Notes
This beer is immediately ester driven, a crisp palate and earthy bitterness in spades. It's a near perfect beer for me, genuinely, and if I get my way, we will be making this cuvee for many years...
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