Cove Blend 02: Lossless
Half Acre Beer Company

Cove Blend 02: Lossless Wild Ale aged in Chardonnay Barrels with Peach and Passionfruit Puree.

One of the greater parts of making wild beer is the ability to blend barrels to create a more unified and rounded vision of the individual parts. Cove Blend 02: Lossless is a blend of two contrasting beers that add depth and complexity not found in either of the originals. Sixty percent of the blend came from a beer that was barrel fermented for two years with passionfruit and peach puree in chardonnay barrels. Huge aromatics of tropical fruit, classic California chard oakiness, and a vibrant acidity. It was blended with a smaller amount of what became this year's vintage of Strawberry Loam, which lent a more subtle funk and savory notes to the blend. The end result has swirls of tropical fruit juxtaposed by classic brett farmy aromatics. The bright and lively acidity of the first beer is balanced by a richness and salinity from the second.

Here's some notes from Daniel, one of our artists, who based the name and artwork around drinking the beer: Lossless is a term common in audio compression; a process of transmitting energy with no loss of information. Cove Blend 02: Lossless reflects this same value. Navigating through this beer and label incites visuals of waveforms entangled in deep peaches and passionfruit maroons. An entire sensory experience that leaves the user levitating.