Imperial Stout Brandy BA

"For this beer, we were inspired by the world of whiskey, where it is customary to finish aged whiskeys in barrels with a specific taste. In this way, complexity is added to the final product. In this series we finish Oud Bruin , which has matured for at least a year in oak wine barrels, in wooden barrels of a different type of wood, sometimes the barrels are fresh, sometimes with another drink. This time: Bocoy barrels. 700L barrels of chestnut wood in which Spanish wine from the Jerez region has matured. The barrels add aromas of nuts, tobacco, spices and balsamic."

Second edition iof the Megablend featuring oud bruins from: Bourgogne des Flandres, Brouwerij Alvinne, Brouwerij De Leite, Brouwerij De Ranke, Brouwerij Toye, Brouwerij Verhaeghe, Dok Brewing Company, Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste, Seizoens - Brouwerij Vandewalle, Brouwerij Strubbe, Brouwerij 't Verzet, Brouwercomplanie Rolling Hills.

Barrel Aged Farmhouse Sour, macerated with only locally (within 500 m around the brewery) foraged ingredients like sloeberries, dandalions, rosehip, pinecones

"When the hop farmers start harvesting, we start brewing our Hop Harvest. The fresh, undried hop flowers are picked in the morning, and on the same day they are used in the Hop Harvest-brew, straight from the field. Because we use 'wet hops', the beer has a fresh, floral, and pleasantly bitter taste. By changing the recipe every year, the outcome is always a surprise. Drink this beer young if you can, that's when the wet hop shows of their floral character the most."

Season 2021-2022, Assemblage #26. Bottled on 03/02/2022. "For this first ever Cassis, we macerated freshly harvested cassis berries (blackcurrants) on an ex-Bordeaux barrel for a good four months. The lambics used for macerating and blending were all two years old, and originating from two different barrels and eight different brews. The weighted average age of this blend clocks at 26 months. The final fruit proportion is 313 grams of cassis berries used per litre of finished fruit lambik. The berries were manually picked at Purfruit, a small community supported orchard in West-Flanders, Belgium.."

Season 2021-2022 Assemblage n°11. Bottled on 04/01/2022. Bottle Count: 934. "For this Frambozenlambik, and blend 12 and 13 alike, we macerated and blended two- and three-year old lambics only, originating from three barrels and seven brews, and three very specific raspberry varieties. For this blend, we macerated Glen Carron raspberries - grown and hand-picked in Flanders, for almost four months. The weighted average age of this fruit blend upon bottling was almost 27 months. The final fruit proportion used is 333 grams per litre of finished Frambozenlambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen Brewed Lambic."

Season 2021-2022 Assemblage n°12. Bottled on 04/01/2022. Bottle Count: 988. "For this Frambozenlambik, and blend 11 and 13 alike, we macerated and blended two- and three-year old lambics only, originating from three barrels and seven brews, and three very specific raspberry varieties. For this blend, we macerated Glen Ample raspberries - grown and hand-picked in Flanders, for almost four months. The weighted average age of this fruit blend upon bottling was almost 27 months. The final fruit proportion used is 333 grams per litre of finished Frambozenlambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen Brewed Lambic."

Season 2021-2022 Assemblage n°13. Bottled on 04/01/2022. Bottle Count: 980. "For this Frambozenlambik, and blend 11 and 13 alike, we macerated and blended two- and three-year old lambics only, originating from three barrels and seven brews, and three very specific raspberry varieties. For this blend, we macerated Tulameen raspberries - grown and hand-picked in Flanders, for almost four months. The weighted average age of this fruit blend upon bottling was almost 27 months. The final fruit proportion used is 333 grams per litre of finished Frambozenlambik. 100% 3 Fonteinen Brewed Lambic."

Season 2020-2021. Assemblage #49 bottled on 27/04/2021. "For this specific Cuvée Armand & Gaston, we blended lambikken from three different barrels and five different brews. Upon bottling, the average age was about twenty months. A quarter of the lambikken used were brewed with heirloom Pajot grown cereals, from our own farmers’ cereal collective. The characteristics of this geuze make it an excellent geuze for extended ageing."

Season 2021-2022. Assemblage #42. Bottled on 23/02/2022. "For this Langste Kook / Longest Boil - a special version of the Cuvée Armand & Gaston - we brewed a typical lambik wort, but with an extended boiling time. We usually boil for five hours - the highest in the lambik world and about tenfold of modern beer brewing. Now, we boiled a whopping eighteen hours. 18. Hours. After a full year of barrel fermentation and maturation, we blended with a young portion of lambik to assure continued bottle fermentation. With a weighted average age of the blend of almost twelve months upon bottling, this is a rather young geuze, but all lambikken were brewed with Pajottenland grains from our own Cereal Collective."

Season 2021-2022. Assemblage #47. Bottled on 11/03/2022. "Nocturne is a spontaneously fermented full malt beer. Not your typical lambik beer, but our take on a Vlaams Oud Bruin. The beer was brewed with five different barley malts, from pilsner malt to dark roasted malts, and no wheat whatsoever. This batch was brewed in April 2019 with more lighter malt, and put on oak barrels for three years before we blended it with a small portion of freshly brewed Nocturne. The weighted average age of this beer upon bottling is 33 months."

Season 2021-2022. Assemblage #48. Bottled on 11/03/2022. "Nocturne is a spontaneously fermented full malt beer. Not your typical lambik beer, but our take on a Vlaams Oud Bruin. The beer was brewed with five different barley malts, from pilsner malt to dark roasted malts, and no wheat whatsoever. This batch was brewed in March 2018 with more dark chocolate malt, and put on barrels for four years before we blended it with a small portion of freshly brewed Nocturne. The weighted average age of this beer upon bottling is 45 months."

Season 2021-2022, Assemblage #21. Bottled on 21/01/2022. "For this Pruim, we macerated fresh picked-to-ripeness sweet Mirabelle plums. Maceration took a tad over four months. For both maceration and blending, we used over 90% of old lambics, both two-, three- and four-year old. The weighted average of this blend upon bottling is therefore almost 25 months. The final fruit intensity is 304 grams of plums per litre of finished Pruim. The largest part of the fourteen brews used comes from smaller barrels and are 3 Fonteinen-brewed. Of those, more than 1/3 were brewed with Pajottenland grown cereals."

2023 Version. "Creamy, thick and pleasantly sweet, our take on a classic Christmas beverage features rum, cinnamon and vanilla with whispers of nutmeg. It’s like a melted vanilla ice cream with Christmas spices."

"Damn Lambic Porter (our Porter blended with Lambic from De Troch) Barrel Aged on Makers Mark Bourbon Barrels "

Blend of black currant wine and Méthode Gantoise sour ale aged in Pinnot Noir Bourgogne Barrels

Season 2020-2021. Assemblage #77 bottled on 16/09/2021. "This particular Cuvée Armand & Gaston has been blended with lambikken originating from five different barrels and ten different brews. Almost 80% of the blend consists of three year-old lambik, bringing the weighted average age of this blend upon bottling to more than 26 months. We also blended in lambik originating from a Moscatel sherry barrel. About one third of the used lambikken has been brewed with Pajot-grown cereals."

"For this collaboration with Vino di Proceno, we added lees from their “Belga Sbagliato” wine to our wild Berliner Weisse and lightly dry-hopped it with Hallertau Blanc. An hybrid beer tout en finesse"

Sour ale with Chardonnay pomace and dry hopped with Simcoe

"FOR THIS COLLABORATION WITH VINO DI PROCENO, THEY CAME TO BRING US THEIR SANGIOVESE GRAPE POMMACE STRAIGHT FROM THEIR VINEYARD IN ITALY! WE ADDED IT TO OUR WILD ALE BARREL AGED FOR 18 MONTH. DELICIOUSLY ROSé AND HYBRID."

Funky Wheat Beer aged on Portuguese White Moscatel barrels

"Collaboration with De Mederie. Blend of Treebeard aged on Pineau de Charentes Barrel & dates mead, mead aged on bourbon and peated whisky barrel. Billies Craft Beer Fest special 2022." Bottled without carbonation.

Sour Quad with Dried Figs aged on Spanish Brandy barrels (collab with LETRA Brewery, PT)

"The clean, dry and vinous characteristics of Ambience gives way to soft tannins and notes of raspberry, plum, spice, and coconut imparted by the naked flavours of the mixed-fermentation married with American oak Zinfandel barrels for 24 months."

"Ruby in colour with hot pink foam, this beer looks as good as it tastes. Blueberries and vanilla notes dominate and act as a counterbalance to the tart notes from our house mixed fermentation base that’s been maturing in an ex-red wine foeder for 6 months."

Wheat Beer aged 4 months in a foeder and infused with a massive quantity of apricots

"The second edition of our dry-hopped red beer, Clomp. This blend was made from two brews produced in May 2019 and June 2020. Fermentation took place in red Bordeaux barrels for three and two years respectively. The rich red beer benefitted from a fairly long time in barrel to build the acidity and tannin required to balance the sweetness of the malts. To enhance the bright fruit aromatics present in the base beer, the finished blend was dry-hopped with whole-leaf US grown Chinook, from the latest harvest. The finished beer conditioned in bottle for a (relatively) brief four months before release, to allow enjoyment of the fresh the hop aromatics. As with all our dry-hopped beers, these aromatics will evolve quite dramatically over time."

"Glass is our series of beers characterised by a delicate minerally flavour, fresh kettle-hop aroma, and the addition of sea salt in the blending tank. This is our third iteration. In February, April and August 2020 we produced extra pale, minerally worts, with fresh East Kent Goldings hops. The fresh hops add wonderful aromatics (quite distinct from dry hop character) as well as acting to restrain the acidity produced in the wild fermentation. We made a blend from the four most delicate tasting barrels and added a touch of Cornish sea salt into the blending tank to give a crisp finish."

Blend Five. "Spectre Sister is a blend of two extra pale beers produced in July and August 2020. The worts were made with maize, wheat, oats and rice. They fermented in a mixture of old bourbon barrels and freshly emptied cider barrels (from Oliver's Cider and Perry, and Ross-on-Wye Cider and Perry Company). Conditioning in bottle took place through winter and spring producing an effervescent, bright and delicate saison."

"Our personal take on the somewhat worn-out style of spicy Christmas beers: a wild Gruit, with spruce tips & juniper berries, aged for more than a year in barrels!"

Perry with ginger

Cider with roasted buckwheat

Cider with chestnuts

"This old authentic lambic is brewed according to an age-old tradition. Brewed with dedication and craftmanship in the Senne Valley. The fermentation and maturation took place in the heart of Brussels just above the Senne (in the cellars of the Saint-Gérys Halls). A maceration of 450g of local strawberries per liter of lambic gives this beer its typical nose and taste. Enjoy, to the fullest, Cheers!"