Wildflower Hive: Post Brood

REGION: Marrickville, NSW
SIZE: 750ml / ABV: 7%

"Hive: Post Brood is an ongoing collaboration with our friends, and honey superstars Tim and Emma from Malfory's Gold honey. Hive: Post Brood is a barrel aged golden Australian Wild Ale refermented with natural formed Warré hive post-brood wild comb from the Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands of NSW. Each bottle is dipped in the same wax post-refermentation in this beer, there may be small residue still of propolis in the wax leaving black specks in the golden yellow (which is super aromatic) beeswax.

This is a big robust Hive offering. Intensely fragrant with honey, resin and sweet spicy floral notes dominant. Orange citrus and dark woody notes lift the nose beautifully. The palate has breadth and weight, upfront spice is washed away in a torrent of warm honey and beeswax. Cleansing acidity brings a floral citrus to the back of the palate."

It's difficult to overstate the impact of Wildflower since its inception only a few years ago in 2017. Hailing from Texas, Topher Boehm has an impressive resume - from Brasserie Thiriez to Jester King to his background in astrophysics - not to mention his unique house yeast. Cultivated from foraged wildflowers native to NSW, think wattle blossoms and banksia, blended with a Belgian saison strain, creating something truly individual which speaks of place. Topher even sprayed the entire brewery with inoculated wort when he moved in, just to make sure everything was literally covered in the house culture.