Zwanze Day 2017 @ Jolly Pumpkin

Here is the complete beer list for Day of Zwazne. Tickets are still available at JollyPumpkin.com

Allagash -
Coolship Resurgam: Cooled overnight using outside air temperature in a large shallow pan known as a coolship. Aromas of apricot, lemon zest, and candied fruit. Notes of tropical fruit and flavors of funk lead to a clean, tart and dry finish.

Anchorage -
Time Waits for No One – Imperial Stout ages in Portuguese Port barrels

Birds Fly South -
Brand New Eyes: A Red wine solera farmhouse with Motueka hops.
Graffiti Heart: A blended red sour Foeder and select barrel blend, brewed in the flander-ish style.

Black Project -
Peacemaker: A blend of two spontaneous solera fermented beers aged in cherry wine barrels.
Cloudmaster: Spontaneous American wild ale.
Dreamland: Spontaneous sour golden ale.

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen -
Armand & Gaston: A blend of 1, 2 and 3-year Lambic.
Hommage: Lambic with raspberries and cherries.
Oude Kriek: Lambic with cherries.

Creature Comforts-
Booger Hill: Uses local honey from Booger Hill Bee Company in Danielsville, GA. Rested 12 months in French oak.
Subtle Alchemy Blend 002: Highlights American Oak and subtle cherry flavor to bring a tart cherries and cream profile. Blended components range from 22 to 8 months old

Fonta Flora -
Ticky Tick Buzz: Kvass de Miel. Brewed with multigrain bread, cardamom, and honey.
Need A Hug: Appalachian Wild Ale with blueberries and elderberries

Green Bench-
Tiki Tack: 100% Brettanomyces Gose with Guava and Passion Fruit. A collaboration with Brewski.
Sauvage Miel: 100% Brettanomyces Farmhouse Ale in which 30% of the fermentable sugars are FL grown Orange Blossom Honey. Hopped entirely with Mandarina Bavaria.

Gueuzerie Tilquin-
Squared: Blend of 1, 2 and 3-year Lambic.
Quetsch: Blend of 1 and 2-year Lambic with plums.
Mure: Lambic with blackberries

Holy Mountain-
Witchfinder: A sour Brett Saison.
Choir of the Sun: Mixed culture Saison fermented and aged in oak puncheons.
Sudachi Table: Mixed fermentation beer aged in oak on Sudachi fruit.
Phosphene: Ale aged in oak barrels on apricots.

Jackie O's-
Elle: Mixed fermentation Saison aged in an oak foudre.
Scrip: Grisette Style Ale aged in wine barrels.
Hockhocking: Mixed fermentation Saison Style Ale aged in wine barrels.

Jolly Pumpkin:
Hamajang
Sea Buckthorn Fandango
Innovator Man
Turbo Bam

Jester King-
Spon Methode Gueuze: Blend of 1, 2, and 3 year old Spontaneous beer.
Le Petit Prince: Farmhouse table beer.
Omniscience and Proselytism: Mature barrel aged beer re-fermented on Texas strawberries.
Provenance Lemon and Lime: Farmhouse ale brewed with Texas lemons and limes.

Lost Abbey-
Veritas 19: Oak Aged Sour Ale with Raspberries.

Monkish-
Apocolocynposis: Barrel aged farmhouse ale with blackberries and lime made in collaboration with Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales.
Amigas y Amigos: Wild blonde ale aged in an oak barrel (single-barrel) for two years.

North Peak –
Anniversary Ale

Off Color-
Yuzu Fierce: Berliner weiss and saison hybrid with yuzu.

Other Half-
Cream of Broccoli: Imperial IPA with Cascade, Hallertau Blanc, Mosaic, and Simcoe, oats, and lactose sugar.
Double Dry-Hopped Southernhopalistic: Double dry-hopped India Pale Ale with Nelson Sauvin, Motueka, and Topaz hops.
Double Dry-Hopped Double Mosaic Dream: Single hop Mosaic Imperial India Pale Ale.

Oxbow-
BAFPA: BAFPA is produced by blending varying vintages of our flagship farmhouse ale that have been resting in French and American oak barrels.

Penrose-
Wild 10: Wild red ale aged in wine and bourbon barrels.
Wild 22: Oak fermented brett saison aged on peaches.

Perennial Artisan Ales-
Funky Wit Raspberry: Mixed fermentation Belgian-style Witbier aged in oak with Raspberries.
Funky Wit Charentais Melon: Mixed fermentation Belgian-style Witbier aged in oak with Charentais Melon.
Funky Wit: Mixed fermentation Belgian-style Witbier aged in oak.

Revelry-
Eden’s Lot: blond ale in French oak for 6 months and refermented on passion fruit and guava in stainless steel for 2 months. Bottle conditioned with brettanomyces.
Flowers of Tokushima: 8 month Foeder aged American Farmhouse beer. Sudachi Lime juice and yuzu zest added and bottle conditioned.

Sante Adairius-
West Ashley: Saison aged in French Oak Pinot Noir barrels with apricots.
Capitola Sunset: Saison inspired by the pink, orange, and azure sunsets right outside the brewery door.

Side Project Brewing:
La Ruche: Saison Aged in Missouri Oak with Orange Blossom Honey.
Spontanfermier: Barrel-fermented Missouri spelt Saison blended with Belgian Lambic and brewed in collaboration with our friends at Mikkeller.

The Rare Barrel-
Hyper Paradise: golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with mangoes and passion fruit.
Seditious Ways: dark sour beer aged in oak barrels with tart cherries.
Shades of Cool: golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with black currants.
Another World: blended red sour beer aged in oak barrels.

Tired Hands-
Hop Hands: American Pale Ale with Oats.
Saison Hands: A hoppy Saison.
Ourison: An oak aged Saison.

Yazoo-
Saison de Bois: Mixed culture Saison aged in 20 year old French Oak Puncheons.
Cherry Deux Rouges: Flanders Red ale aged in freshly emptied Merlot barrels for 20 months and conditioned on Cherries.
Zure Bruine: Flanders Brown ale aged in red wine barrels for 2 years.

Scratch -
Chanterelle Biére de Garde: Made with foraged chanterelle mushrooms from the woods surrounding our brewery.
Strawberry Rhubarb Sour: Sour beer made without hops, made with local strawberries and rhubarb, boiled over a direct-fire in our copper kettle and fermented with our wild house mixed culture.

The Veil-
IREALLYdontwanttoBU: Double dry-hopped 0 IBU IPA with Citra and Mosaic.
We Ded Mon: Triple IPA with 100% Citra hops.

 

Thats a serious lineup, cant wait

 

There are buses from Detroit for DLD? If so, I'd like to know where. I'm thinking you meant Chicago?

 

Yes, I was comparing the commute to jolly pumpkin for zwanzee from downtown Detroit to the commute to DLD from downtown Chicago

 

Only if they're implying no beers will be poured during the event, in which case, I'll be very underwhelmed that they're hosting a beer fest without serving beers.

But having been born in Michigan, I wouldn't be shocked. It already feels weird that not a single other Michigan brewery was invited to Jolly Pumpkin's event. It's a little weird that they cost as much or more than every other Zwanze event in the US.

 

JP's zwanze day costs more than every other zwanze AND they don't guarantee pours of the signature beer? Is that true?

 

I agree...when you look at these options, JP looks very favorably in regards to price. 20 4 oz pour tokens to sample some amazing breweries that you may never or rarely see in MI again. While I would love to see a few Specation or Arclight sours on tap, I can't imagine anyone will leave disappointed. The tap list looks amazing.

 

How much are extra tokens?

 

A little off-topic, but I'm in vacation in Brussels and today at Cantillon they're selling Zwanze 2013 and 2014 for on-site consumption. 2014 was delicious!

 

Well that was an amazing festival! I encourage everyone NOT to go so that it can be ~50% sold out again. Cantillon available until close & very few breweries sold out of anything.
Also I put exactly 1 ticket into a bucket......20 pours? Nah it was unlimited

 

One of the best beer fests that I've been to!

 

Great event today. Yes it was expensive, but I did not feel unfulfilled. While many Zwanze events are cheaper and/or also include food, this event did feel like it provided fair value. Much less of a shit show compared to Chicago and the Cantillon table poured Nath, St Lam, Viggy and others for a shockingly long time. Had my last pour of Vig at about 6:15.

A few breweries didn't seem to send all that much, especially Other Half. Good chance I'd come back in the future.

Good to link up with you today @Zaphog.

 

Umm, what? I didn't see any problems at WLV

 

I agree. Had a great time with my friends and had my fill of great beers. The only brewery that ran out quickly of something I wanted was 3 Fonteinen. I felt spoiled after a while getting walk up pours of Cantillon. Strangely, the Zwanze beer was my least favorite of the day but still not bad. I think my 5 favorite beers of the event were

• Lost Abby Veritas 019
• SARA West Ashley
• Jestetr King SPON
• Black Project Peacemaker
• Perennial Funky Wit Raspberry

The two IPAs from the Veil were pretty awesome as well. Even though it was ridiculously hot, great time all-around.

One question though, did they do an official toast and I missed it?

 

If they did, then I missed it too.

 

No.

I saw someone by the Cantillon table in the corner at ~3:10 saying well I'm supposed to do a toast or something. He tried yelling to get people's attention & unsurprisingly that didn't work. After a couple of minutes he gave up trying

 

Which year? WLV is a mixed bag. 2016 sucked for the first 3 hours since they only had enough tent to cover the pouring stations and it rained during most of that time.

2013 kind of sucked too with it split between the pub across the street and both buildings not able to collectively hold all of the ticket holders. The back yard of WLV was an improvement, but it's planning seemed not well thought through consistently.

 

Considering you were taking about this year at Jolly Pumpkin it could reasonably be inferred that you were comparing what happened at both places this year and nothing from before.

I can't speak to 2013 as I wasn't there, but blaming them for weather in 2016 when you knew it was outside, you could read a weather forecast and you didn't bring an umbrella doesn't make a "shit show" in my opinion.