The Referend Bier Blendery

Microbrewery in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: The Referend Bier Blendery

Established in 2015

Contact
407 Old US 22, Kutztown, PA, 19530, United States
Description
he Referend Bier Blendery practices the neglected art of waiting, of letting nature run its course, to produce a beer of depth and character inimitable through technological shortcuts or chemical interference.These beers are:
-100% spontaneously fermented
-no yeast cultures are added at any point in the process
-Fermented and matured in oak barrels
-neutral oak imparts little flavor and allows the beer to breathe
-Unfiltered, Unpasteurized, Unsweetened to sustain the beer's natural essence
-Built for posterity
-bottles are capable of decades of aging
-Acidic and complex (not basic.)

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8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Can shared in San Diego - cheers to Sandino. Pours hazy yellow with a frothy, white head. Lovely stuff, clean and graceful, concise. Plenty of lemon, a little green pepper, soft funk, moderate acidity. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Clean finish, nice lemony tartness, some woody dryness, hay, funk, melon, white grape. Exceptional depth. Overall, excellent.
Tried from Can on 28 May 2018 at 02:54

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can shared in CA. Pours mostly clear yellow-gold with a small, foamy white head. Clean tangy citrus aroma, lemon, soft funk. Light sweet with mellow acidity, some bitter lemon peel. Light bodied with average carbonation. Clean finish, quite dry, with more lemon, pale wood, rind, a little musty funk in the background.
Tried from Can on 26 May 2018 at 19:14

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can shared in La Jolla - cheers to drsandman! Pours hazy yellow with a small, white head. Great aroma, lemon, musty funk, apricot. Light sweet flavour, mild acidity, lemony tartness, some wheat. Light bodied with spritzy carbonation. Quenching finish, with a bit of bitter lemon rind, pine needles, apricot, dry funk. Really refreshing gear.
Tried from Can on 25 May 2018 at 06:46

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle - pours pinkish red with white head - nose and taste of raspberry, funk, oak, lactic acid - medium body
Tried from Bottle on 30 Apr 2018 at 00:19

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Draft - pours yellow gold white head / nose and taste of soft sourness, lemon and kumquat - lighter bodied
Tried from Draft on 26 Apr 2018 at 22:33

8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Draft - pours yellow white head / nose and taste of peach funk, oak, lemon tartness and sour grass / medium body
Tried from Draft on 26 Apr 2018 at 22:13

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to Grant. Pours a hazy yellow with small white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is dough, lemon zest, wheat. Thin body, similar flavors to nose, tart, light finish, good.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2018 at 05:08

8.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
750mL bottled 4/30/17, drunk 12/10/17.
Super pale, straw-to-white gold body has a large, white head that fizzles away to nothing rather quickly. Good clarity and plentiful carbonation.
Soft, funky, gueuze-like acidity mixing with restrained oak and mild, creamy, biscuity wheat. Super soft, mild and well-aged with very homogeneous acidity and no aggressiveness whatsoever. Balance tends heavily Brett, moderately lactic and low acetic. No alcohol or flaw.
Sparkling, tight, champagne-like carbonation with a perfectly malt-and-wheat-heavy texture that is very well-attenuated. Funky, soft, and very light on the acetic and even lactic character. Brett adds soft fruitiness. Nothing jumps out at you and everything is very harmonious. Excellent, excellent stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Apr 2018 at 21:05

8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can - pours yellow gold white head - nose and taste of yuzu, lemon, oak, funky wheat - medium body
Tried from Can on 09 Apr 2018 at 00:04

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Cask at the source: pours pinkish with a loose cask head. Aroma is incredible combination of vanilla, raspberry and cherry. I have never found vanilla this enticing in a beer as I have here. The taste too has one of the best vanilla tastes I have seen. The cherries and raspberries are there too, but seem to be just a bit overshadowed by the huge vanilla taste. My wife did not like it, however.
Tried from Cask on 07 Apr 2018 at 19:31