Hive: Post Brood

Wildflower Brewing & Blending in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺

Sour / Wild Beer Regular

Score

6.91

ABV: 7.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 9

A collaboration with our friends, and honey superstars Tim and Emma from Malfory's Gold honey, Hive: Post Brood is a barrel aged golden Australian Wild Ale refermented with natural formed Warré hive post-brood wild comb from the Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands of NSW. The Malfroy's Post Brood Polyflora is unlike any honey I have ever tasted and indeed a unique product. The beer is our aged Gold refermented and macerated on the left over comb, untreated or heated... just natural, after Tim’s milling and gravity straining of the post brood comb. He doesn’t spin or press the comb, just lets time do its thing. But what happens is that there is still a bit of honey clinging to the waxy comb (along with all the other good propolis, bee bread and pollen). So in September 2020, after much chatting, Tim sent some of that ‘honeywax’ he calls it (the left over comb mixed with honey & others), to us and we employed our hearty yeasts to clean off the comb and ferment any extra goodness on the comb. Old school mead was made this way too, by the comb washings, not from honey dilution. I can give no analogue for the flavours this honeywax (and all the still active microflora) has imparted on our beer. This is an inherently special thing to be a part of though, almost certainly a first, and I am very thankful to Tim for trusting me with this rare gift of nature.

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7.4

mcberko (47051) reviewed Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 6 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Taphouse CPH, pours a clear amber, tiny head. Aroma has plenty of fermented out honey, some thorny berries, and a touch bugs. Flavour has moderately fermented out honey, some spices twig-like things, gentle bugs, and with some dry jammy berries. Fairly complex, finishing with honey, bugs, and earthy twigs. Good stuff.

Tried from Draft at Taphouse on 26 May 2025 at 02:53

7.4

RennyDoig (4318) reviewed Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 6 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Taphouse CPH. Pours clear gold with a white head. Floral, earthy nose with honeycombs. Flavour has earthy yeast, mild tartness, gentle honeycomb sweetness. Well-done.

Tried from Draft at Taphouse on 25 May 2025 at 22:53

beerhunter111 (50413) ticked Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 6 months ago

An almost clear deep golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of herbs, red fruits, brett. Taste of sour cherries, red grapes, brett, dry sour finish.

Tried from Draft on 25 May 2025 at 15:04

fonefan (84235) ticked Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 6 months ago

Draught @ [ MBCC '25 Week 🧙‍♂️🍻🇩🇰 ] @ Taphouse, 🇩🇰 Lavendelstræde 15, Copenhagen, 1462 Denmark. [20250525]

Tried from Draft on 25 May 2025 at 14:57

Brugmansia (22479) ticked Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 6 months ago

Draught @ [ MBCC '25 Week 🧙‍♂️🍻🇩🇰 ] @ Taphouse, 🇩🇰 Lavendelstræde 15, Copenhagen, 1462 Denmark. [20250525]

Tried from Draft on 25 May 2025 at 14:57

5.9

HenrikSoegaard (21914) reviewed Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 7 months ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Frothy white fair mostly diminishing head. Dark yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy acetic aroma. Light bitter acetic flavor. Average light bitter finsh. Oily palate.

Tried from Draft at Væskebalancen Bar on 22 Apr 2025 at 08:18

Szeppp (7579) ticked Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 2 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2023 at 20:00

6.4

DSG (25968) reviewed Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 4 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

[10/22/2021] Bottle sample outside Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2021. Cloudy. Funk, flowers, fruity, sour and spicy.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2021 at 11:31

7.8

tiong (21241) reviewed Hive: Post Brood from Wildflower Brewing & Blending 4 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

750ml bottle. Tart, funky and farmyardy with loads of honey, citrus, apricot and grapefruit. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Aug 2021 at 11:41