Cellar Society - LO3
Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery

Instinctive Travels, our ever-changing dry-hopped saison, has gone through many iterations. In this version, it's dry-hopped with Hallertau Blanc and Mandarina Bavaria, then aged gently with Brett and Lacto in Old Tom gin barrels from our friends at Ransom Spirits. Some of you will recall the area of the barn where we have our cellar was formerly home to Francois Freres D’Oregon (now called Oregon Barrelworks and based nearby), a Burgundian-funded, traditional cooperage in which local barrel maker Rick De Ferrari crafted ultra high quality barrels from Oregon oak. (Back in 1995 I worked as an assistant to Rick, splitting oak trunks and stacking staves for air-drying for a summer. It’s fun to know that one of the barrels Rick coopered was used to age this brew.) It’s got the complexity of traditional, spicy saison with the juicy, tropical overtones of high-alpha hops and fragrant, juniper-y Old Tom Gin.