Damon: Port • Civil Disobedience Blend 39 • New Cans • Sunday Activities • Walden • Susan • Society & Solitude #11

For the week beginning Wednesday, 9 July, we’ll offer three more freshly packaged cans—Walden (Blond Ale), Susan (IPA), and Society & Solitude #11 (DIPA)—alongside two new bottle releases.

Phil will lead another Sunday Gravel Ride beginning at 10:30, and we’ll have live music by The Wet Ones, a delightful surf-rock band from Burlington. 

Our food vendors for the week: Weds. & Thurs. – Pearl Street Pizza; Fri. & Sat. – Making the CuTX; and Sun. – Pie Empire.

Damon: Port

More often than not, Damon is the progenitor of our distillery-specific Bourbon barrel-aged beers; the much less frequent opportunity to age this imperial stout in Port barrels results in even fewer appearances. Each barrel of the beer rests in freely shifting seasonality, occupying freshly emptied and then imported Tawny Port barrels for 29 months, conveying the distinct character of the Portuguese fortified wine as a complementary layer that lends a singular shape to the final result. 

Civil Disobedience Blend 39

This, the thirty-ninth entry in our blended barrel-aged Farmstead® ale collection, spans more than eight years and is comprised of wine barrel-aged Arthur and Samuel from Spring of 2017, Anna from late Autumn 2017, and a few additional selected threads from early 2018. The barrel lineage for this assembly includes Citrus Coolship, Sankt, What is Enlightenment?, and Ann.

Its unhurried journey from brew day to assembly to glass traverses nearly six years of conditioning in the bottle prior to release. Observing this blend over the past six years in bottle, we anticipate that it will continue to exhibit a positive expression for the next 5 (or more) years; its current manifestation displays a delightful balance of integrated acidity, texture, and weight.