One 750ml Bottle of To Contemplate Eternity by Floodland -- Bottled August 10, 2023 (UT: 4.50)

One 750ml Bottle of To Contemplate Eternity by Floodland -- Bottled August 10, 2023 (UT: 4.50)

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. No bullshit.

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Brewer’s Notes:

2023 TO CONTEMPLATE ETERNITY

“When you go back to the old stories of saison as brewed in cold seasons to be consumed in the warm seasons by saisonniers, one of the things which resonates with most folks is the seasonal way in which the beers were brewed – the eponymous nature of farmers brewing after harvest in the late fall, through the winter, and ending in the spring as the temperatures warmed. The blend of this beer, for the first time, comprises beers brewed entirely during one cool season, beginning in late summer of 2021 and ending just before spring of 2022. The blend was constructed following the summer equinox of 2023, two years after the bulk of the beer was brewed. This, to me, represents the saison equivalent of the 3/2/1 geuze blend. It is a beer representative of a single brewing season, aged for an optimal time.

Prior to working on the 2023 blend, I drank some bottles of both the '19 and '21 blends and refocused my goals for the constituent barrels and style of '23. I wanted to not only think about the barrels that went into the blend at the time of blending, but to use those past bottlings to help me "see into the future" as Ron Jeffries once said to me.

I think this bottling hews much closer to '19, it certainly draws from lessons I learned as both those beers aged as to what kind of blend speaks to me after aging in bottle. We also went back to a wax style similar to what we blended in 2019. This wax blend in the light shows some subtle highlights that didn't, but it has the same "staring at the stars" kind of vibe as '19, which seemed appropriate since the beers are very similar.”

Bottling date: 08/10/2023
ABV: 6.67% ABV
Cellar: I expect this should drink well for 5-6 years.