Floodland Brewing

YMMV

 

There's no accounting for taste.

 

Transmigration of Light might be the best thing I've consumed this year. What a beer.

 

Cheers, I appreciate your efforts and wish you the best of luck. Some of the beers have been uniquely good but when i point out flaws or things i dont like in the beer my comments get deleted by Beer Advocate and i am ridiculed by the craft beer community. We need more constructive criticism in the beer industry overall.

 

Fat finger post. Ignore.

 

Agreed, but I’d recommend posting actual, thoughtful constructive criticism, not memes and generalities. Just sayin’...

 

Your comment got deleted because it lacked constructive criticism. If you would’ve posted something describing why you didn’t enjoy the beer or detailing perceived flaws that you found, I’m sure it would’ve been more well-received. I wholeheartedly agree with you that we need more constructive criticism in the industry.

I haven’t yet had the opportunity to taste any beers from Floodland, but I have the utmost respect for their craft, and look forward to trying their beers in the future.

 

Agreed, i was mainly pissed because a lot of my other constructive comments have been deleted by BA and others...
But, its all good we are here to talk about Floodland and they are making some unique beer. I am glad they are slowly getting “bigger” and getting their beer out to more people, in bottle and on tap. Keep an eye out for Floodland events all over Seattle, Brouwers Cafe Dec. 13th, Bottleworks Anniversary beer, Masonry Pizza, and more..

 

Should be trying my first soon......

 

From the latest batch, Nothing/All and the Pinot Noir beer (which led to a bout of genuine confusion from my dad "how do you make a beer out of wine? that's not a beer!") are both just....wow. Out of this world.

 

Everyone is freaking out over Transmigration (rightfully so, that beer is sublime), but these two beers are on equal footing, IMO. Nothing/All is more plum than an actual plum, and I have no idea how that's possible.

 

Brought a Nothing / All to a small share last night but it was never opened but it's in the fridge for some itme this week, excited.

Had the Pinot though for the second time and it was wonderful; excited for Fermament to come to bottles in January.

 

I'm sitting here drinking a Roseate Blend I and it got me thinking about this post I read the other day about the top rated beers from last year. The top 20 beers were all imperial stouts with adjuncts or Trillium NEIPAs. Meanwhile our forum has been busy discussing barrel-aged pancakes.

I'm just happy that in the middle of all of that, we got our first year of Floodland beers which were the polar opposite. Light and delicate flavors that challenge your palate to appreciate the nuances rather than completely masking the beer with bold flavors. I can't help but think that leads to a lot of disappointment and is perhaps not the best marketing strategy in today's market, but I'm happy to live in a place where a business can succeed by challenging the status quo.

Thanks, @paysse. There hasn't been a beer I haven't thoroughly enjoyed and I appreciate them more with each beer I have.

 

Thanks, Brian. It's been fun so far. The beers aren't meant to appeal to everyone, and the business model could be seen as sort of ridiculous. I try to make what I'm psyched on, to me that's honest and it makes it worth doing. That's not the best or only way to do it, it's just my way. Floodland wasn't the first around here to do that, though, I like to think that I sort of follow in the footsteps of Chuckanut and Machine House as brewery making beer within a focused stylistic realm (in addition, those two were making entirely naturally carbonated beer locally before Floodland, and now Garden Path has joined in).

Like most of us I definitely have a tendency to get bummed when I see some of the trends in the beer scene, but it makes sense that easily understood and obvious beers (pastry stouts, hazies, lactose beers, etc) are so popular. In spite of that trend, the fact that Floodland, a weird little art project of a brewery, has been so lovingly embraced here speaks volumes about how rad Seattle and the NW is. We're really lucky, and I think for every bro shitlord and every facebook complainer there's ten people who are awesome and generous and down to try new things and to find new things to be psyched on.

It doesn't hurt that other breweries paved the way to show people what good/real renditions of saisons/wild ales look like, E9 and HM were doing that around here before Floodland and this brewery wouldn't exist without them having broken that ground. Before that there were all the trailblazers who first created the craft beer scene, and so in general I take what I do seriously out of respect for the work put in by all those people who came before me. Blah blah blah.