World Class Cellar Release #3

Explore cellar releases from some of the best wild ale producers around the world, all rating +4 on untappd!

An absolute rarity, Cantillon is quickly snapped up and never lasts long. Paired with incredible brews from other wild beer legends, The Referend & Wildflower, this pack features three unique wild ales, including a lambic made with 100% barley, a pale wheat wild ale with grapes, and another rarity from our cellar; an early batch of amber wild ale from none other than Wildflower!

1 of each pack per person MAX!

In the pack:

• 1x Cantillon - Iris 2020 750ml
• 1x Wildflower - Amber Batch #3 2017 750ml
• 1x The Referend - Berliner Messe: Agnus Dei 2018 750ml

Vol: 3x 750ml

Cantillon - Iris

2020 | ? 4.27

Style / Variety: Lambic - 100% Barley
Region: Anderlecht | Belgium
ABV: 6.5%

Spontaneous fermentation beer produced using only pale-ale type malt. Iris brings together two elements that were very present in our beers until the middle of the 20th century: the acidity produced by spontaneous fermentation and the bitterness resulting from the use of fresh hops followed by cold hopping.

It is a completely original beer which, contrary to the other products of the Brewery, is not brewed with 35% of wheat. The Iris, which is only made with malt of the pale ale type (giving a more amber colour to the beer) conserves the typical flavour of the spontaneous fermentation, the complex aromas and the vinous taste.

The hopping is different too. Lambic is made with 100% dried hops, for the Iris we use 50% of dried hops and 50% of fresh hops. The latter cause a superb acidity, the former, due to their tannins, enable to conserve the beer while preserving all its qualities.

After two years in the barrel, the Iris undergoes a second fresh hopping two weeks before the bottling. A linen bag, filled with hops, is soaked in the beer for two weeks. This technique, called "cold hopping", gives the beer a more intense savour and makes the smell and the taste more bitter.

Iris is brewed only once every season and all the beers come from the same brewing. This is why the beer is dated. The second fermentation is obtained by adding liquor. Although it is a spontaneous fermentation beer, the Iris is very different from the Lambic. The amber colour and the bitter and slightly caramelized taste make it a complex beer.

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Wildflower - Amber Batch #3

2017 | ? 4.04

Style / Variety: Wile Ale
Region: Marrickville, NSW | Australia
ABV: 6.0%

Amber is a well cellared, rounded, malt-accentuated Australian wild ale. Our traditional recipe calls for an extended boil which caramelises rustic pale grains in order to develop a copper colour and malt sweetness. Light levels of hopping balance with the toasty characters in an extended cooler fermentation with our house culture. Following fermentation, we rack Amber into French oak barrels to further develop a smooth palate and express funky, tart characteristics from our indigenous yeast. We select and blend well evolved barrels for a desired malt forward with subtle acidic character. The slightly heavier characteristics of this beer make a fantastic complement to food and offer a variety of flavours to both compare and contrast in pairing.

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The Referend - Berliner Messe: Agnus Dei

2018 | ? 4.21

Style / Variety: Wild Ale with Grapes
Region: Pennington, New Jersey | USA
ABV: 6.2%

Agnus Dei is our spontaneously fermented Berliner Messe pale wheat ale that sings of time and the overripe. This 2018 harvest edition was refermented with NY Late Harvest Vidal Blanc grape juice in Pineau des Charentes puncheons, and matured in those barrels for a year and a half sous voile.

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