SPON Three Year Blend (2022)
(Batch of SPON Méthode Gueuze / Three Year Blend)
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Gueuze Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.23
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2022 SPON Three Year Blend is a blend of 100% spontaneously fermented beer from our 2021, 2020, and 2019 coolship seasons. Taking inspiration from authentic Belgian Gueuze, our aim is to follow a time-honored, classical method developed overseas, but with our own well water, Texas grain, aged hops, and native yeast to make a beer inextricably linked to a time, place, and people.
2022 SPON Three Year Blend was brewed with Trinity Aquifer well water, Texas malted barley and raw wheat, aged hops from our barn, and native yeast from the land and air around our brewery. It's component parts were aged at Jester King in oak puncheon barrels from one to three years. After blending, it was naturally conditioned through re-fermentation in bottles and kegs.
2022 SPON Three Year Blend is our 7th blend following the original release of 2016 SPON Méthode Gueuze. The coming winter of 2022-23 marks our 11th coolship season. We began in 2013 with a curiosity and desire to see if spontaneous fermentation would be possible in Texas. We were pleased to learn that it was and that our own agriculture and microclimate would naturally produce a beer unique to a time, place, and people.
SPON Three Year Blend will be available by the glass and in bottles to go (750ml/$36 & 375ml/$20) onsite at Jester King on Saturday, 12/10 starting at 11am CT. Also available online for pickup starting Sunday, 12/11 at 11am CT at the link: https://bit.ly/3iQYCSw. We have about 570 bottles of 750ml (11 bottle limit) & 1,190 bottles of 375ml (22 bottle limit). Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas. Proxies welcome.
2022 SPON Three Year Blend was brewed with Trinity Aquifer well water, Texas malted barley and raw wheat, aged hops from our barn, and native yeast from the land and air around our brewery. It's component parts were aged at Jester King in oak puncheon barrels from one to three years. After blending, it was naturally conditioned through re-fermentation in bottles and kegs.
2022 SPON Three Year Blend is our 7th blend following the original release of 2016 SPON Méthode Gueuze. The coming winter of 2022-23 marks our 11th coolship season. We began in 2013 with a curiosity and desire to see if spontaneous fermentation would be possible in Texas. We were pleased to learn that it was and that our own agriculture and microclimate would naturally produce a beer unique to a time, place, and people.
SPON Three Year Blend will be available by the glass and in bottles to go (750ml/$36 & 375ml/$20) onsite at Jester King on Saturday, 12/10 starting at 11am CT. Also available online for pickup starting Sunday, 12/11 at 11am CT at the link: https://bit.ly/3iQYCSw. We have about 570 bottles of 750ml (11 bottle limit) & 1,190 bottles of 375ml (22 bottle limit). Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas. Proxies welcome.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
25 March 2023. At Innis & Gunn, Edinburgh. Shared with the lovely Anke!
Vintage 2022. Hazy orange, small, white head. Aroma of unripe apricot, plum, grape, ripe peach, blood orange, vinegar, oak, leather, cellar. Taste has sour apricot, peach & grape, funky vinegar & wet wood. Very tart finish with funky stone fruit, leather & wood. Medium body, moussy texture, average carbonation. Very pleasant surprise to find this here; lovely funky stuff.
Vintage 2022. Hazy orange, small, white head. Aroma of unripe apricot, plum, grape, ripe peach, blood orange, vinegar, oak, leather, cellar. Taste has sour apricot, peach & grape, funky vinegar & wet wood. Very tart finish with funky stone fruit, leather & wood. Medium body, moussy texture, average carbonation. Very pleasant surprise to find this here; lovely funky stuff.
Tried
on 17 May 2023
at 20:03
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft at the Rutland Arms, Sheffield. 2022 Vintage. Deep golden and hazy colour with a slight white head. Aroma and taste are funk, spice and slight floral finish. Some fruit. Slight sweet tip sour with a hint of dryness. Crisp body.
Tried
from Draft
at
Rutland Arms
on 04 Mar 2023
at 15:02