Annata
Fox Farm Brewery

Shared a 2024 750ml bottle acquired while volunteering at the Greenville Whale Invitational festival 11-8-25.

Beer poured wine red with a gorgeous pink saison head.

Nose had notes of dark fruits and horse blanket.

Taste was Lambrusco like, a mix of dark berries inoculated nicely with the Brett yeast strain for the classic leather, horse blanket, and funky taste. Finished fairly dry.

Mouthfeel was light to medium bodied with a nice saison effervescence.

Overall, my neighbor and i agreed this is one fine ale!

 

 

 

2021 vintage. Big grape flavors. Dry wine like finish. Some funk. Tart jammy notes present as well. Overall, well above average.

 

Really incredible complex nose. So earthy and funky that there is a hint of manure.

Far less funky on the palate, although as the sharper tones fade, the funk builds. Very earthy, with notes of leather, oak, and grape skins. Slightly sour.

 

2020

2018 vintage. Pours a translucent, glowing reddish purple with an inch or so of fizzy white head. Aroma is rich with plenty of grape / wine notes and some underlying funk. Taste follows the nose, in a good way. Good balance of barnyard funk, the core beer, and the grape / wine notes to complement it all. I like how the funk is neither overwhelming, nor does it take a back seat. I don't feel like I'm drinking grape juice or wine, but there's enough grape to make itself known discreetly. Feel is a bit on the thin side, even for the style. Overall, quite good.

On draft at the brewery, Oct 2021. A semi-transparent raspberry red. Color is deceptive, because it isn't one of those overdone fruited sours. It has a clear, immediate wild yeast tone, sour but pleasantly so, tiny funk. The taste is surprising — if I hadn't known, I would not have thought "grapes!" Instead, it's a complex and elegant array of flavors, from fruit to malt, yeast to fine acidity. Many great IPAs have a "wine-like" character for me: complex and layered, without tasting like wine. This one is similar. I loved it.

 

Pours a beautiful magenta with light plum hues. Very grapey aroma. It's very grape forward in flavor - it is the leading and most prominent flavor. There’s something earthy grassy about this underpinning. Like a bloom rind cheese in the background. Not a bad thing, but also not something I'd want to drink a lot of.

 

 

 

 

 

2017, B1.

This one pours a vivid reddish color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like lemon, jammy grape character, some grassy funk, red wine barrel, and stone fruit. It's a complex little number.

Even a few years out, this still has a really nice jammy note to it - there's lots of dark grape and dark fruit left. I get some lemon and bit of stone fruit funk, as well as a touch of barrel. It all melds together very nicely, with no one flavor standing in front.

This is light bodied, jammy, and crisp, with a nice clean finish. It's mildly acidic, nothing crazy.

It's cool to try something that come out before I got into Fox Farm - Copestone B1 was my entryway to this great brewery.