750ml Riesling MMXXI/MMXXII by Floodland -- Bottled March 3, 2023

One 750ml Riesling MMXXI/MMXXII by Floodland -- Bottled March 3, 2023

Original Owner and purchased directly from the brewery. Properly cold stored upright since purchase. I’m offering very competitive pricing because I stopped drinking and would like someone to enjoy these.

$17 to Ship in CONUS ONLY. Will ship 2 bottles for a total of $25.

Brewer’s Notes:

RIESLING MMXXI/MMXXII

Brewer’s notes:
“In 2021 we took the grapes and, with the 2018 blend still nagging at the back of my mind, direct-pressed them and allowed it to undergo fermentation in stainless with a bunch of Grails, like we'd done in '18. That beer aged in tank for about a year before we finally put it into barrel. In 2022 we made a totally different beer with heavy skin contact, and then the two were blended.

The resulting double-vintage blend pours a hazy white/gold. It opens with a distinctly NW Riesling varietal character of pear and apple crumble. That moves quickly into lime powdered candy and lemon peel with a laser acidity. Then the skin contact comes in with peach tea, tie guan yin, meadowsweet leaf. This beer, like all of them, is a living thing and it's moving in new directions every time we open a bottle, always threatening to veer into wild and unfettered territory.

While in general I think that the grape dilution of the base beers tends to overshadow whatever the base beer is, this blend shows more grain than you'd expect, an underlying note of oats and spelt. There's a lot going on here for what could be taken in a short view as just a lemon-lime spritz, when you sit with it you can almost imagine a microdose-level of letting go of gravity and floating away, a heady and pleasantly unsettling sensation.”