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A refreshing Belgian style wit with the addition of 10# of locally grown Thai basil from our friends at Rayburn Farms. The basil gives a floral almost licorice character which blends nicely with the fruity yeast blend.
This beer is dedicated to Terry Riley, our favorite avant grade composer whose invention of tape delay created some of the most psychedelic music of its time.
This is a super limited edition of only 40 bottles available to friends of the brewery and fellow brewers. It started life as some wort left over from brewing Maceo while at Green Man, the wort was left out overnight and inoculated with wild West Asheville yeast and bacteria. It was then left alone for 18 months. Bottled with white wine yeast.
This year’s summer saison (a.k.a. Orange Sunshine) was brewed with lightly blackened lemons and grapefruits for a groovy, bright citrus character without any of the “lemon pledge” notes that beers bread with fresh lemons can have. Fermented with our house saison blend then finished in the bottle with both our “fruity” and “funky” Brett blends. While fresh the citrus is predominant but with aging, the citrus will start to fade and the funk will start to increase. It should be fun to see how this one evolves. Perfect for a bike ride!
A multi-grain saison brewed with copious amounts of Citra hops and fermented with a combination of our house saison blend and Brett brux. It was then aged on apricots for a month and then bottled with our house Brett blend. Prince was THE MAN!
We took our classic saison and soured it then aged it for four months with our house Brett blend. We then put it onto almost 3# per gallon of apricots and let it sit another month before bottling. Super juicy, like biting into a ripe apricot, sour but not enamel stripping sour, low to medium funk.
Dedicated to one of the great funksters of all time: Sly Stone, the man behind Sly and the Family Stone.
Everybody knows that they sent Pale Ale to India (a.k.a. India Pale Ale) but nobody seems to realize that they sent WAY more porter over there. In order to make the voyage the brewers treated porter the way they did pale ale, i.e. doubled the bittering hops and dry hop the heck out of it. This isn’t your normal porter: intense roast character from the traditional grain bill of pale, amber, brown and black malts and a firm finish from 90 IBUs from East Kent Goldings hops. Think of it as the original black IPA! (6.1% ABV).
This beer is dedicated to Lemmy, the bassist and frontman for the band Motorhead. His music is always on rotation at the brewery and he will be missed.
This is a historical recreation of what the original IPA tasted like back when it was actually shipped to India. Massively hopped with traditional East Kent Goldings (140 calculated IBUs) and heavily dry hopped the beer then was aged with Brettanomyces for 4 months and then an additional month in the bottle. Huge funk in the nose blending perfectly with the fruity hops and yeast character. Taste the history! (8.1% ABV)
This beer is dedicated to Krishnamurti, an Indian philosopher whose ideas have been influential to us for many years.
A completely fictional style, a Gose is a salty, tart wheat beer that is usually spiced with coriander. We used local Miso Masters white miso to get the salinity and pickled ginger for the spiciness. Super refreshing and perfect for a picnic or after a hike…or just sitting on the porch. (3.7% ABV)
We dedicate this beer to Yoko Ono whose music may be an acquired taste, but without it we would never have the band Melt Banana and we can’t imagine a world without Melt Banana…
We took our classic mixed field Saison and hop it up like a west coast IPA. Fruity and juicy hop aromas leap from the glass and the beer finishes crisp and dry. Brewed with Pilsner malt, raw wheat, rye, oats, spelt, Columbus, Centennial, Comet and Citra hops. Don’t age this one, drink it as fresh as possible!
This beer is dedicated to David Bowie, a creative spirit right up until the end, so long Ziggy…
Bottled on March 25th, 2016
Grisette is a modern form of saison, influenced by the popular pilsner style but still brewed with traditional farmhouse yeast and rustic ingredients. Refreshing and crisp with a delicate hop character that lets our house yeast blend shine. Brewed with pilsner malt, Styrian Goldings and Sterling hops.
This beer is dedicated to J.G. Ballard, one of the great science fiction writers whose short essay Things I Wish I Could Tell My 18 Year Old Self was influential to the starting of Zebulon Brewing.
Bottled on March 1st, 2016