“During that trip, some deals were brokered for a truckload of high quality French Oak barrels and given wild ales were a passion of us both, we decided to work together on the project.” The importation and distribution arm of Twelve Percent Beer Project, now based out of Connecticut, signed on to distribute this brand.īut wild ales take patience, and by the time early batches were ready, the pandemic had begun both Evil Twin and Twelve Percent dropped out of the project. “Jeppe and I planned a trip to Central Coast California to visit some of my winery friends,” says Bonner. If you walk into Laurel, MD’s Jailbreak Brewing Company, you’ll notice some 750mL bottles for sale, labeled “Implexum.” They’re the result of this brewery’s foray into mixed fermentation and wild ales, which began in 2018, with an unlikely partner. “The problem was incorporating it safely into our ‘clean’ brewery and also the expense of the carrying costs of multiple years before we’d have a market ready product.” I think this is a good beer to have around for anyone that might want a craft beer - including me.“The idea for a larger scale wild ale program has been a priority since I started Jailbreak in 2013,” Founder and Chief Executive Officer Justin Bonner tells me. I did enjoy this, and have bypassed it numerous times in the past (though I am thinking I had it at some point). The flavors are not overpowering, nicely nuanced and balanced. The feel is nice, but seems a little light for the cloudiness (mental game here). It's not the main component, but again it acts as a counter to the wheat and banana of a typical Hefe. (Note - I just read brewed with oranges, and it doesn't quite come across as such, but I am guessing this is what I am perceiving). Taste shows that mild tangy tartness a little more - I'd lean more apple that grape. There's a hint of something that could be a light tangy tartness - wine grape or apple rind, perhaps it's so light but balances the banana sweetness nicely. An impression of Cheerios with bananas comes to mind (I know it's a wheat, not oat, beer - but this is my impression). Nose is not in your face, but has a decent showing of the wheat and the banana phenolics of the yeast. Head formation is solid, lacing is streaks and streams and spots. Pours like a cloudy grapefruit juice - a pale pale yellow, and quite a bit more than just hazy. Not so much strong on the banana, but barely eeks out some hefe character. Biscuity and slight sweet nut aftertaste, with only a minor sense of fruit. Bland sense of flat lemon and faint touches of light soda cream quality. Very light bodied with not much malt chewy qualities or texture. Flakey almost dry grain sensations, even a touch of hop astringency, almost pine like which seems a bit out there. Faint hint of chewy malt sweetness but there's a distinctive peanut butte quality to it, with little sensing banana estery character. Quite a real solid impressive hefe particularly out of the can.Īroma seems to go into some other non traditional territories. Light brass to pale lemon yellow body color, slightly opaque but not totall giving a nice look into the fine carbonation and varied shades of yellow the beer presents. Poured from the can into a wheat ale glass.īig ice cream dolloped thick and creamy white bright head, fisfull tall but not out of control as it settles slowly. A good hot weather refresher maybe, but likely not something I would reach for again. Tastes more like a radler than anything else. Very fruity but more from the additives than the yeast. Much more of an American take on the style than a German one. It's different from your classic weissbier. Getting as much orange as banana in the aroma. Straw colored, cloudy beer, with a frothy head that doesn't last as long as it should. But let's check out the actual beer and see what we've got here. The yeast should drive the beer to where it needs to be. If you can't coax those flavors out of traditional weissbier ingredients then we're not off to a good start. The can says this is brewed with banana, orange zest, and orange juice. With this hefeweizen, there’s no fruit required - we’ve got that covered." Brewery notes say: "A german style hefeweizen that combines traditional notes of clove and banana with subtle citrus aromas and flavors to provide balance and complexity.
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