Burlington, WA 3/9/2024
Defying all categorization, the base for this beer was a blend of native yeast barrels of varying ages in our cellar, which was then foudre-aged, dry-hopped with locally grown Cascade and Crystal, refermented on Pinot Noir pomace and juice from Skagit Crest Vineyard, blended together with a mix of one, two, and three year spontaneously fermented beers, and naturally fermented with local blackberry honey. It’s mixed ferm! It’s spontaneous! It’s a grape beer! We don’t know! What we do know is that it’s a dry, slightly funky, slightly tart, food-friendly beer that drinks a lot more easily than the abv would lead you to believe.
Stop by our Skagit Valley Taproom or our new location in Bellingham, The Great Northern to enjoy Transcendental Blur by the glass or pick up bottles. If you’re not able to come in person we also ship through our Online Shop.
Art by Cass Graybeal Brown. Photo by Chris Carley.
About Garden Path Fermentation
Located in the beautiful Skagit Valley in Northwest Washington, with its uniquely fertile soils and cool, temperate climate, Garden Path Fermentation is one of very few producers in the world that’s able to make beer, wine, cider, and mead, all using ingredients sourced from our own backyard, and may be the only one to do so using only native yeast fermentation.
Our production process draws on old-world brewing and winemaking techniques from a variety of traditions, which we reinterpret and adapt to take advantage of our abundant local resources, including Skagit-grown and locally-malted grain, Skagit-grown fruit, much of which we tend to ourselves, locally-cultivated honey, and organic hops from our friends’ nearby farm. Fermentation takes places in oak barrels of varying sizes, including a large, open-top foudre, and each unique batch is hand-blended to taste and is a singular expression of time and place that we can never recreate.
A garden path is a beautiful way to get somewhere you may not have expected to go. Our products–the results of careful selection, blending, aging and curation–will take you on what may be an unanticipated journey that we hope you enjoy!
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