One 750ml Bottle of Waxwing by Floodland -- Bottled September 28, 2023 (UT: 4.46)

One 750ml Bottle of Waxwing by Floodland -- Bottled September 28, 2023 (UT: 4.46)

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.

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Brewer’s Notes:

WAXWING

Brewer’s notes:
“This is as close to recreating the original 2017 Cherry Field Blend as we've come. That beer had more Montmorency than Balaton, and from two sources we can no longer get fruit from, and this has that ratio reversed. The culture in the original Cherry Field Blend was something that didn't get propagated and so while it's difficult to recreate that beer exactly, I went back and reread all of my notes and did my best. This reads a bit more red and less copper than that one, but it's not too far off. The beers in that first harvest in 2017 were all pretty young beers, I had just gotten my liquor license at the very end of February and so I brewed furiously through March and April to get enough beer. The beers were a bit lower hopped because I knew I needed them to turn faster, and so the best replacement for them in our modern recipes is to simply age the beers longer.

We've been working on a new wheat saison recipe for the last few years which has yet to see a blend, but this beer is made mostly from well-aged barrels of that beer. That beer was somewhat inspired by the Wildflower collaboration we did years ago. There was a day drinking that beer with my wife and some family on a deck in Ballard where I swore it tasted more like a natural wine than a beer. So I recreated a beer not based on how that beer was made, but based on how it tasted in my memory.

Cherry beers remain mostly hugely loved from people I talk to... I think you either like these or you don't. If you do, you'll dig this. I somewhat regret making another cherry beer so soon after Brouwer's because that was so good, but I had the idea to do a lower fruited one in my head and couldn't get past it. After working with these Balatons so much every year since 2017 I'm thinking we'll take a year or two off from them so I can regroup, so this may be the last Waxwing for a while, and more likely it's the last Waxwing we'll ever make. I have other ideas I want to work on rather than chasing the memories of the beers I made 7 years ago, but I didn't want to cut the cord without letting all of you who love the cherry beers have one last bottling.

Bottling date: 09/28/2023
ABV: 7.17% ABV.”