Let's talk about Wildflower...

I've had 8 different ones (and I have Solera Pull 2 that I've not had yet). They're expensive, so having kept buying them means they've been: mostly good; convincing in matching rhetoric to product; and distinctive in mostly having a house style.

Most of their beers seem to be going for subtlety and ease of matching with food. I like a non-shouty saison or sour beer -- it shows a confidence that quality will out through attention earned rather than grabbed, and a view that it's partly the palate of the blender as much as the ingredients or brewing techniques that counts. They are, however, too expensive to be regular drinkers.

I also like the local notes in some of the beers - yes, a house culture, but also gumnuts, spices that presumably come from brewing or lagering temperatures etc.

My favourites so far have been The International (which seems to have had another release), Gold, Amber, Solera (the first one, which must be the unblended base) and Foudre Beer 1. The Noel, which was kind of a French Amber with sourness that I suspect may have got away, was my least favourite.

As to age, other than Solera - which I might have kept for 6 months - I didn't hurry but didn't intentionally age them. With almost any beer it's a gamble and given that Wildflower has deliberate variation from batch to batch and that they are new _and_ expensive... no. Indeed if a brewery isn't 20+ years old they don't (for me) have the track record to say that their beers can reasonably reliably age for 5 years.

 

I can't recall the two variants I tasted (it was definitely a long time ago now), and was frankly surprised when I subsequently saw all this hubbub over them in more recent times.

So either I got a shit batch (of two different variants), or they're incredibly inconsistent/unreliable, or they've drastically improved over time. Sorry I can't provide more as they were so uninteresting at the time ><

 

A great product and brewer for Australia though I suspect there will be a few more wild/farmhouse breweries opening this year and next.

Their Waratah was on point. Foudre 1 was incredible at Forage Fest in Armidale.
I still think their is plenty of opportunity for a wild brewer within Australia whom produces similar style's on a large scale with a more approachable price.

 

The only type of beer i would ever age is a barleywine. You're only gonna have flavours fade over time when aging, in my opinion.

 

I've had several, all from 2018 and colour me impressed! If the brewery can keep this up, they will be a force to be reckoned with.