Cerise - Barrel Aged Dark Saison with Sour Cherries

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.

Bottled on: 14/10/2023, Best Before: 14/10/2028. 

Bottle conditioned.

330ml, 8.2%