Cerise 2023 – Barrel aged dark saison with sour cherries [8.2%]
The third vintage of Cerise, our dark saison. We brewed this batch
in June 2020, and it spent over 3 years in a French oak barrel on
Otago sour cherries and Canterbury raspberries. We used the same
barrel as the previous two iterations for this, which now has a
nice resident Brettanomyces culture. We don’t inoculate this beer
with bacteria – rather the Brett ferments it out dry, and the sour
cherries and raspberries provide some acidity to give the beer
some refreshing tartness.