RARE HEARTS
A blend of barrel-aged golden mixed culture beers with strawberries
6.1% ABV
Wild Beer Release: 032
RARE HEARTS
A blend of barrel-aged golden mixed culture beers with strawberries
6.1% ABV
Wild Beer Release: 032
Aged in oak barrels for an average of 10 months, refermented on strawberries and blended together
T.A. 13.70 g/L
Moderately Low Acidity
We ain’t seen anything so pretty as the opaque, perfectly ruddy rose gold contained in these bottles. And, lucky for everyone, it tastes just as stunning. This blend of barrel-aged mixed culture beers smacks of freshly picked, perfectly ripe strawberries. Basically, it’s a dream of summer realized in winter.
Strawberries, while singularly tasty, can be terribly tricky to brew with. But sometimes, the trickiest ingredients make for the treatiest beers, so it just made sense to brew this to be 40% strawberries by weight. First, we selected three different base beers to experiment with: one Lambic-inspired, one a mixed culture Saison, and one a Brett Saison. Then we refermented each barrel on the fruit in isolation before blending the three to taste—and taste they do! Turns out, individually hand-processing a whole pallet of strawberries until 1 am pays off.
In addition to the strawberries that are the absolute star of this show, those who drink of Rare Hearts will be treated to balancing beats of pleasantly bitter hops, subtle acidity, and just enough funk to keep things spunky. Get your hands on a bottle of this atypical libation or try a spurt of it in our taproom.
✏️ Pairs well with cunning turns of fraise.
Available for purchase at the Establishment Brewing Company taproom and online store.