Quartolet
Fox Farm Brewery

This one is special. With Quartolet, we set out to prepare a blend composed from four distinct seasons of spontaneous brewing. Drawing from choice barrels up to four years old (the 2018/2019 spontaneous brewing season) we treated the youngest portion of the blend as the priming component. The residual sugar still remaining in that young beer allowed for a robust refermentation in the bottle suitable for carbonating the beer (in lieu of an additional sugar source). It’s an historic approach to bottle conditioning and took us out of our comfort zone in many ways but helped yield a wonderfully complex and delicious beer.

We’re immensely proud of Quartolet as it presents today but it has aged with remarkable grace over nearly ten months and we see it as our most cellarable bottle to date. When it comes to spontaneous beer, Belgian lambic will always remain our primary inspiration and gueuze our guiding example for blends of this nature. In this beer we find more shared qualities with those classics than we have with past blends but it’s a unique, well-placed signature that we’ve come to identify as our own that brings us the greatest pride.