Window Fishing - Bottle Conditioned
Is/Was Brewing
- From:
- Is/Was Brewing
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Specialty Saison
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 6.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 22, 2022
- Added:
- Oct 13, 2021
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A Kvass Inspired Rye Saison collaboration with our friends at Jeff & Judes.
'Window Fishing' is inspired by the Kvass tradition of making a fermented beverage out of day-old bread. We used 10 loaves of their beautiful marble rye to a mash reinforced with malted and caramel rye. The resulting beer is lovely liquid bread with notes of dates, figs, Dr. Pepper, fruit leather, and hints of caraway and cocoa with a dry and invitingly bitter finish.
We also added a fun twist to our usual practice of bottle conditioning a portion of our releases with wild yeast. For 'Window Fishing' we grew up wild yeast and bacteria from Jeff & Judes sourdough starter to further deepen this beer's ties to their wonderful loaves. This adds a unique funkiness and a whisper of acidity.
'Window Fishing' is inspired by the Kvass tradition of making a fermented beverage out of day-old bread. We used 10 loaves of their beautiful marble rye to a mash reinforced with malted and caramel rye. The resulting beer is lovely liquid bread with notes of dates, figs, Dr. Pepper, fruit leather, and hints of caraway and cocoa with a dry and invitingly bitter finish.
We also added a fun twist to our usual practice of bottle conditioning a portion of our releases with wild yeast. For 'Window Fishing' we grew up wild yeast and bacteria from Jeff & Judes sourdough starter to further deepen this beer's ties to their wonderful loaves. This adds a unique funkiness and a whisper of acidity.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.3/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Kvass inspired saison, don't see that everyday which piqued my interest. Mostly clear bronze body with a finger of cream foam, sheets of lazing lacing leave behind splotches. Hello rye and rustic brown bread in the nose, meet your supporting elements of date, prune, yeast and bretty funk, faint caramel, a hint of potato, cherry pits, and leather. Delicate delivery but oh so complex. Taste is not as complex: get cola not the dr pepper others report, plenty of rustic rye brown bread, caramel malt, brett, dry earth, and date with kisses of dark cherry and leather. Feel is yeasty more than anything, rye is next strongest, there is a kiss of sourness underneath the dry brett filled finish, airy body overall. This was absolutely fascinating
Feb 22, 2022
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
4.1/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.1/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Is/Was has a good gig. They make saisons, two from each brew and the second they put a shot of Brett in the bottle. But I'm shy of Brett and many of the Wildly sour Tastes that it makes. Nonetheless, Is/Was is a master at a young age and I look for them.
Window Fishing is a good experience made wonderful by this three-fold serendipity.
Bought at The Beer Temple, I actually intended to purchase the non-bottle conditioned variety. But in this first serendipity, I bought the Brett/bootle-conditioned and I enjoyed it hugely. (I'm glad I'm open-minded for an old man.)
For our second serendipity, I presume a rarity. J&J (the bakers of the marbled rye) just happened to know Is/Was and said "let's make the most of this bread." Together, they decide to make a Kvass, a Russian/Baltic brew made by peasants from leftover bread. This style is rarely brewed and I only know of MiddleBrow in Chicago that does the same with their bread. (They serve some kvass infrequently at their bar... and I always look for that, too.)
Our third serendipity is that I botched dinner planning and preparing; so I opened Window Fishing to console myself. But suddenly, I remember I have a really strong rye sourdough from Orkenoy (another brewer/baker in Chicago) and that it is sitting in my refrigerator waiting for a pairing. It finds its match in Window Fishing. And... I've had a thrilling evening.
Lesson: Serendipity happens when you stay loose.
Tomorrow, I'm getting the straight rendition of Window Fishing... and another version of its "Brett," too.
Dec 08, 2021Window Fishing is a good experience made wonderful by this three-fold serendipity.
Bought at The Beer Temple, I actually intended to purchase the non-bottle conditioned variety. But in this first serendipity, I bought the Brett/bootle-conditioned and I enjoyed it hugely. (I'm glad I'm open-minded for an old man.)
For our second serendipity, I presume a rarity. J&J (the bakers of the marbled rye) just happened to know Is/Was and said "let's make the most of this bread." Together, they decide to make a Kvass, a Russian/Baltic brew made by peasants from leftover bread. This style is rarely brewed and I only know of MiddleBrow in Chicago that does the same with their bread. (They serve some kvass infrequently at their bar... and I always look for that, too.)
Our third serendipity is that I botched dinner planning and preparing; so I opened Window Fishing to console myself. But suddenly, I remember I have a really strong rye sourdough from Orkenoy (another brewer/baker in Chicago) and that it is sitting in my refrigerator waiting for a pairing. It finds its match in Window Fishing. And... I've had a thrilling evening.
Lesson: Serendipity happens when you stay loose.
Tomorrow, I'm getting the straight rendition of Window Fishing... and another version of its "Brett," too.
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