Beside Myself with Joy 2024

Name: Beside Myself with Joy 2024
Brand: Wildflower Brewing & Blending
SKU: BesideMyselfWithJoyBottle
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Beside Myself with Joy 2024 is an ale aged with honey and Riesling grapes.

The ale was brewed with Organic red wheat and Organic heritage barley wholly fermented by a diversity of yeasts and bacteria collected from native flowers from NSW. Following primary fermentation it matured in oak for 11 months before being macerated and refermented with Post Brood ‘honeywax’ from Malfroy’s Wild Honey ahead of a secondary maturation in oak. In harvest 2024, it was removed from barrel and refermented over whole bunch, hand picked, Organic Riesling grapes from Ravensworth Wines in Murrumbateman, NSW.

Following this maceration it was bottled with raw, unheated Blue Mountains Polyflora wild honey from naturally formed, bee-friendly Warré hives from Tim and Emma Malfroy and allowed to naturally condition and carbonate before release.

Made exclusively for The Collective.

When I spoke about this year's Collective offering at the end of 2023, this beer was already in the works, and was one of the ones I had in mind when describing how this year's beers would look. This beer was born from me thinking, how can we improve on what we already have, instead of considering or attempting to make something 'new'.

Hive has become one of our most emblematic beers in the past four years and I hope to continue making it into the future. However, with the pressures the varroa mite is putting on many beekeepers, Tim Malfroy included, we have been warned (by Tim) that there may be less and less post brood comb if things don't pan out too well for his bees. The reasons for this, I don't quite yet understand, Tim has mentioned them, but his knowledge here is so detailed and I have trouble following I will admit.

For 10 releases of this beer, though, we have not altered it in any way, just allowing Gold and the comb to do the work. This beer, though is an attempt to explore what might happen when our Hive is used as a base for a fruit refermentation, in this case Riesling grapes, which with some age collect a honied aroma and texture naturally. The fruit for this beer came from the Ravensworth home block, with Brayden and Lewis Martin combing through the canopy of a frost affected vineyard for viable fruit. Thats slow work for sure and it is greatly appreciated.

At release, its certainly honey-heavy IMO, however Brayden sees the riesling straight through this. Much like Living in Discovery, I would expect to see this develop really well in the next couple of years... I eagerly await this too.

The label for Beside Myself with Joy 2024 is a trial oil painting by Bernadette.

750ml, ABV: 8.0%
Approximately 4.7 Standard Drinks
Bottled: Jul 2024
Best Before: Jul 2028

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Each member will receive 1 x 750ml bottle of Beside Myself with Joy 2024 as part of their membership.

We have an additional 89 x 750ml bottles available for Collective members to purchase on a first come basis from 12pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 16 October 2024. There is a 2 bottle limit per person.