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Tuck into in this rich imperial stout inspired by the warm aromatic flavors of banana nut bread. This full-bodied, blended imperial stout is treated with walnuts and banana to give it that unmistakable nutty banana bread sweetness.

White Mocha is our bourbon barrel-aged Wheatwine-Style Ale with fresh coffee beans from Ritual Coffee and TCHO cacao nibs. Rich notes of coffee and chocolate are joined by warm flavors of coconut, honey and vanilla.

If you closed your eyes in our barrel house, you might think our brewers have become chocolatiers. They dipped cherries into this limited edition of our bourbon barrel-aged wheatwine-style ale. Already rich and creamy with white chocolate flavors thanks to fresh vanilla beans, cacao nibs and extensive oak-aging, this treat for the senses has been enhanced with the addition of tart, sweet, juicy cherries.

This Scotch-style ale features a rich and dominant malt flavor complimented by the candi sugar, a traditional Belgian ingredient, while the coriander's roasted, nutty aromas and flavors come to the fore.

Frucht gets its complexity from a blend of Brettanomyces yeasts and Lactobacillus bacteria. We add Cucumber to give it a refreshing coolness, and age it in Oak foeders, making it as complex as it is light.

Wassail is known for warmth and spices. The tenth verse of our Twelve Beers of Christmas™ saga goes leaps and bounds beyond a traditional winter warmer, drawing inspiration from the dark, spiced ales from Belgium and our love for experimental brewing in SoCal. 10 Lords-A-Leaping is a dark imperial wit ale featuring 10 different spices - coriander, orange peel, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, mace, anise, dried apples and cloves, which complement the spiced notes imparted from the yeast and prance upon the rich, dark fruited character of the specialty malts.

Sweet, ripe boysenberries are swirled with creamy vanilla bean in this sundae-inspired treat.

We took fresh, juicy boysenberries and drizzled them over creamy and smooth vanilla bean. Combined with our Bourbon barrel-aged Wheat Wine ale, this boysenberry treat is bound to delight your taste buds with its myriad charms.

Welcome to Frucht, our land of fruited Berliner Weisse-style beers. Known for a tart flavor profile and traditionally low ABV, our German-style wheat beer gains even more funky notes and natural earthy-woodiness from fermentation in one of our twin oak foeder vessels - the largest known to be fabricated in this country. Each installment in the series features a new fruit, or Frucht, if we’re Sprechen sie Deutsch. Each installment in the series will feature a new fruit, or Frucht, if we’re Sprechen sie Deutsch. This installment has guava added.

Tart of Darkness is a traditional stout that we aged in used oak barrels from The Bruery that had previously housed beers such as Cuivre or Black Tuesday. We then brought them over to Bruery Terreux, added our special blend of souring bacterias and wild yeasts and watched nature take its course. The result is a perfectly tart yet awesomely dark and roasty, sour stout. Not a style you will see very often, and in our opinion, not a style seen often enough. This unique stout has notes of tart plums, roasted coffee, vanilla and oak. This version spent its first year in Black Tuesday barrels, before aging in rum barrels for it's last year. .

This American sour ale was aged in oak barrels with fresh raspberries which impart a sweet-tart flavor complimenting the sour ale base. Pleasantly sour with a crisp and refreshing finish.

This pack contains 6 bottles: 1 bottle of each of the Chronology series from The Bruery. Each beer is barrel aged for the months on the label. So Chronology 6 = 6 months barrel aged. 24 = 24 months barrel aged.

1 x Chronology: 6 Scotch / Wee Heavy

1 x Chronology: 12 Scotch / Wee Heavy

1 x Chronology: 18 Scotch / Wee Heavy

1 x Chronology: 12 Imperial Porter

1 x Chronology: 18 Imperial Porter

1 x Chronology: 24 Imperial Porter

We’ve replaced the wheels of time with barrel heads. They don’t turn, yet they embrace the evolution of beer and time on a level that can’t be rivaled. 

8 Maids-a-Milking is the 8th beer in our "12 Days of Christmas" series, and we'd be udderly crazy to release anything but a milk stout. So we made an imperial milk stout to stand up to whatever Old Man Winter throws our way from now through 2019 with the final release of our series. 8 Maids-a-Milking is brewed with lactose, which is commonly referred to as milk sugar. It's the only type of sugar that is unfermentable by yeast, which adds more perceptible creaminess and sweetness to the finished beer. This mouthfeel and sweetness is complemented by robust layers of milk chocolate, subtle spice accents from our house Belgian yeast and roasty, cafe elements indicative of our take on the style. Celebrate the seasons with the best of both worlds: enjoy some now, and lay a few down for up to 4 years to be enjoyed upon the release of 12 Drummers Drumming.

A collaborative effort with M.I.A. Beer Company, Take My Hand is a tart wheat beer brewed with salt and aged in an oak foeder blended with a sour blonde ale aged in oak barrels with cara cara oranges, buddha's hand citron and lemon verbena added.

This pack contains 3 bottles: 1 bottle of each variant of the Arbre series from The Bruery.

1 x Arbre Light Toast

1 x Arbre Medium Toast

1 x Arbre Alligator Char

The Arbre series is an exploration of barrel toast. We brewed a rich, malty imperial stout and divided it into three parts, laying each down in brand new American oak barrels from our friends at Kelvin Cooperage in Kentucky. This Vertical Set explores the infamous Arbre from light to deep charred Alligator style.

7 Swans-A-Swimming is the 7th beer in our "12 Days of Christmas" series. For this verse of the story, we chose the path we don’t often take – we brewed to style. No bells, no whistles, just our best take on the Belgian Quadrupel style. Brewed with nothing but water, malt, yeast, hops and a bit of Belgian dark candi sugar, this beer may not be as out-of-the-box as some of our past winter brews, but it’s just as tasty. Rich and complex, this robust dark ale juggles notes of raisin bread, dried apricots, burnt caramel and roasted pecans. The sweet flavors provide a full body and the bright yeast wafts the sweet holiday notes out of the glass, into your life. 7 Swans-A-Swimming is a perfect holiday sipper. Delicious right now, but suitable for aging up to 5 years, upon the release of 12 Drummers Drumming.

Making wildly traditional bière sometimes requires the freshest organic ingredients you can find. For The Orchard Project, a Reserve Society exclusive series of sour wit ales brewed with spices and aged in oak barrels with raspberries, we collected the freshest nectarines, plumcots and apricots we could get our hands on thanks to the farmers at Sunny Cal Farms and processed them ourselves. This is the nectarine release.

Oak aged Sour Ale with lime, graham cracker, vanilla, and lactose added.

Making wildly traditional bière sometimes requires the freshest organic ingredients you can find. For The Orchard Project, a Reserve Society exclusive series of sour wit ales brewed with spices and aged in oak barrels with raspberries, we collected the freshest nectarines, plumcots and apricots we could get our hands on thanks to the farmers at Sunny Cal Farms and processed them ourselves. This is the apricot release.

We brewed a dark, decadent wheatwine-style ale with chocolate wheat malt to accentuate the richness imparted through barrel-aging. We then divided the beer into three components, laying each down in new American oak barrels with varying degrees of barrel toast and char. This release showcases the robust, charred and dark chocolate notes contributed from aging in alligator charred oak barrels. Taste it side-by-side with its light toast and medium toast counterparts to bring the barrel-aging journey full circle.

It’s rather ridiculous the melding of flavors that can be achieved by folding an incredible amount of boysenberries into a blend of our barrel-aged sour rye ale and bourbon barrel-aged anniversary ale. But Befuddlment does just that. This recreation of one of our favorite blends - a Hoarders Society exclusive release in 2014 - is a baffling, rich and balanced creation that showcases rich dark fruit, subtle funk, zesty jam, prominent oak and ribbons of caramel and toffee.

This pack contains 6 bottles: 1 bottle of each of the second verse of the Twelve days of Christmas series from The Bruery.

1 x 6 Geese-A-Laying (Belgian Style Dark Ale)

1 x 7 Swans-A-Swimming (Belgian Style Quadrupel Ale)

1 x 8 Maids-A-Milking (Imperial Milk Stout)

1 x 9 Ladies Dancing (Belgian Strong Dark Ale)

1 x 10 Lords-A-Leaping (Dark Imperial Wit Ale)

1 x 11 Pipers Pipping (Scotch Style Ale)

Known for a tart flavor profile and traditionally low ABV, our German-style wheat beer gains even more funky notes and natural earthy-woodiness from fermentation in oak foeders. To this we add Frucht, if we're Sprechen see Deutsch, in this case grapefruit, which in German is.. grapefruit. A nod to the Greyhound, a refreshing grapefruit juice and vodka cocktail garnished with a salted rim, it adds a nice balance to this tart and juicy beer.

Filmishmish, an Arabic term for “when the apricots bloom”, is a barrel-aged sour blonde ale to which apricots have been added. The beer's already fruity esters are enhanced by the hint of fresh apricot jam and wood shavings. Filmishmish is a well-balanced beer, keeping the apricot and oak character present, but putting the flavor of the well-formed sour ale at the forefront. 

This is the fourth in a chronological series of beers released at six-month intervals to chart the evolution of bourbon barrel-aged character in an imperial porter over time. 

We brewed a dark, decadent wheatwine-style ale with chocolate wheat malt to accentuate the richness imparted through barrel-aging. We then divided the beer into three components, laying each down in new American oak barrels with varying degrees of barrel toast and char. This release showcases the caramel, chocolate, vanilla and slightly smoky notes contributed from aging in medium toasted oak barrels. Taste it side-by-side with its light toast and alligator char counterparts to bring the barrel-aging journey full circle.