Oaxen
Supermoon Beer Company

Belgian beers hold a very special place in our hearts, and were fundamental to our early motivation into exploring and brewing beer. We continue to marvel at the complexity of Belgian Trappist beer, and take a great deal of inspiration from them as yeast and fermentation driven brewers focused on bottle conditioned products. For us, there's almost nothing better than an Orval. I'll save you the longform TED Talk on the Trappist monks who brew the beer and what monastic life in their Abbey looks like, and just say Orval is a real treasure and pleasure to drink. This beer, Oaxen, is our love letter to Orval.

Similar to Orval, this is an "Abbey Style Pale"- with virtually no tie to modern "pale ale" as we know it. The structure is far more English in its base. Brewed with aged hops and fermented in neutral oak, the fermentation profile of this beer is almost entirely driven by Brettanomyces Bruxellensis, famous for its fruity, funky characteristics of cherry pie, leather and barnyard, pastoral style funk.

AROMA: dried fruit leather, grass, basement
FLAVOR: apricot galette, leather bag, dried cherry, funky earth