10 Years Gone #6
Ocelot Brewing Company

Our final anniversary beer is a solo flight. Please welcome Ten Years Gone #6, a 12.7% wheatwine aged in Willett wheated bourbon barrels. We brewed this elegant beast back on August 25, 2023. You don’t forget wheatwine brew days. The mashes are huge. This particular mash contained 1300 pounds of red wheat —Virginia’s staple wheat — from Charlottesville’s own Murphy + Rude Malting… and 25 pounds of their chocolate wheat for good measure. Together, that’s 54% of the beer’s grist, easily surpassing the magical 50% threshold into official wheatwine status. All of that wheat was supported by brown and biscuit malts from Murphy + Rude, plus the English pale malt Maria Otter.

After fermentation, Ten Years Gone #6 headed into Willett wheated bourbon barrels, where it would remain for 17 months. What emerged from the oak is certainly luxurious — the dried fruit and warming richness you’d expect from a barleywine but with a wheaty breadiness, balanced with some subtle oak tannin. It’s a proper liquid for a proper birthday toast.