Meditations 4.17

Meditations is our series of beers which evoke significant spiritual reflection and emotional response. For this inaugural batch, we blended two stout recipes aged in barrels: (1) a stout recipe known as BS1 aged in a 15-year 1792 barrel for 22 months and then aged in a Willett Bourbon barrel for another 10 months and (2) a stout recipe known as BS2 aged in a Buffalo Trace Mash #1 barrel for 12 months and then aged in a Willett Bourbon barrel for another 10 months. After blending, we conditioned this stout on a blend of four vanillas: Hawaiian, Sumatran, Indian, and Comorian. This stout is named after a specific passage from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. In this case, passage 4.17: "Do not live as though destined to live countless years; while you live, while it is possible, become good." -Marcus Aurelius translated by Caius Mergy