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Wildflower St Florence 2019: Black Muscat (1 Bottle Limit)

375ml Bottle 5.6% Fruit Beer
$21.00
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About The Beer

NOTE: Limit of 1 per customer. Please do not order more as you will only be sent this amount.

Country: Australia

Brewery: Wildflower Brewing & Blending

Style: Fruit Beer

Format: 375ml Bottle

ABV: 5.6%

St Florence 2019: Black Muscat is an Australian Wild Ale refermented with Black Muscat grapes from Orange, NSW.

This variant with Black Muscat was made by blending 5 barrels of mature, barrel aged Gold with hand harvested Black Muscat grapes from Thornbrook Orchard in Nashdale NSW where we source many fruits. We picked the grapes with our friends Matt and Suzanne from The Masonry in Seattle on 21 March 2019, drove them back to Sydney and immediately transferred them into a stainless steel variable capacity tank without crushing or destemming. We allowed for their fermentation to naturally begin with the native yeasts on the skins of the fruit. After three weeks, we removed the juice at the bottom of the ferment and blended in 3 (1856, 1857 and 1858) mature barrels of Gold, coincidentally all barrels that had once held Muscat wine from Clonakilla. We then allowed the fruit to macerate and referment with the beer for 2.5 months. In mid June, we blended in barrel 1740 (7 month old Gold) and barrel 1839 (11 month old Gold) for necessary structure and balance. It was packaged on 10 July and allowed to go through a tertiary fermentation for carbonation and conditioning for 8 weeks before release. At bottling it was 5.6% ABV and 0.4 P (1.002 SG).

This beer opens with a gently attractive perfumey, rose water aroma to be expected from the muscat grapes, however unlike its white skinned sibling, the aroma moves toward layers of spice and earthiness. The palate is delicate and resembles this continuance from sweet fruit and turkish delight flavours towards a structural spice, phenolic and dry tannin finish.