Burlington, WA 12/6/2024
Garden Path Fermentation is excited to announce the official release of our newest edition of Ron’s Not Bitter. and our second edition of The Twisted Branch Out.–our take on a modern IPA!
Ron’s Not Bitter. is our riff on a classic English bitter, based on the recipe for one of Ron’s all-time favorite beers. But, instead of British malt and hops, mineral-rich water, and traditional English ale yeast, our version uses all locally grown ingredients, soft Skagit Valley water, and our house native yeast culture. So it’s very much like a bitter–except with totally different malt, hops, water, and yeast! This fourth edition is our favorite to date: smooth and crisp on the palate, with a complex body that belies its 4.2% ABV, perfect for a long pub session!
The Twisted Branch Out. is Garden Path’s take on a refreshing, intriguing modern-ish IPA. It was brewed on a crisp base of pilsner malt with a small portion of raw and malted wheat with late additions of Cascade and Cashmere pellets in the kettle and whirlpool, and fermented with our house native yeast culture. We then dry-hopped early in active fermentation to showcase the fruitier, tropical side of Yakima Valley whole leaf Cashmere and Cascade hops. This beer jumps out of the glass with aromas of peach, melon, mandarin orange, an unexpected yet familiar Garden Path grisette-like yeast character, and effervescent carbonation that brings you back for more.
Both beers are available this weekend at the Garden Path Fermentation tasting room, The Great Northern Bottle Shop & Lounge, and our online store, as well as through Walden Selections. We can’t wait to share them with you.
Art for Ron’s Not Bitter and The Twisted Branch Out is by Cass Graybeal Brown. Layout/design is by Paul Marko. 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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