We took a year off of making this super-blend of as many different plums and pluots as we can get, and we returned to it last summer/fall. 2024 was a very challenging harvest, a cold spring and then a super-heated summer were not ideal for harvest timing and we ended up taking several thousands of pounds of pluots all in one week, which was very intense and a little exhausting.

Because we also made CFO2 we pulled a bunch of the pale pluots from this blend, which ended up getting 8 varietals of plums and pluots all harvested and processed in September. We let them slowly referment over the winter and when we went to sensory them just before spring we were happily surprised that the insanity of harvested had yielded another really nice set of components we could blend this from.

The resulting beer has a deeper red color and maintains the macerated-strawberry and fruit punch type character we often get with Collins Family. This beer remains one of if the not the most quintessential Floodland beer in my mind, I think it reflects what we do and what we want the beers to be.