Florida’s breweries have been bringing home an increasing number of medals from all manner of competitions, and it looks like 2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is no exception. This year, Florida craft breweries brought home twelve medals from the GABF.
Odd Breed Wild Ales announces the release of Fresh Off the Farm with Starfruit
“This Friday, bottles of Fresh Off The Farm with Starfruit go on sale. Odd Breed recently posted to social media pics of brewery staff manually washing and slicing 300 pounds of starfruit one year ago in July of 2021. After two months of refermenting the fruit to dryness and 10 months of bottle conditioning, this wild ale loaded with fresh local fruit is ready for your enjoyment.”
Odd Breed is proud to announce a new beer being released this weekend! Bottles go on sale on the Oznr app at Noon on Friday 4/8/22, and bottles will be available for pick up in our taproom starting at 4:00 on the same day.
Odd Breed Wild Ales in Boynton Beach is one of the few Florida craft breweries dedicated exclusively to wild and sour ales. For those enthusiasts who love and favor sour and wild ales, Odd Breed’s Rare Bottle Club ensures access to some of the brewery’s more limited releases as well as a consistent supply of Odd Breed’s wild ales.
The brewery has recently announced that Friday, August 23rd will be the day when a limited number of memberships to the club will open up at 9am.
From Odd Breed Wild Ales:
For those of you who missed it last year, you will have a shot at joining this very special membership club on Friday, August 23 at 9AM. We have a limited number of memberships available, so check early on the 23rd. Memberships are available on a first-come, first-served basis at shop.oddbreed.com.
Below are the club details, don’t miss out!
– Matt Manthe and the rest of the Odd Breed cats
Here’s what is included in the Second Edition of the Rare Bottle Club:
6 Unique Beer Releases available to club members only
– 3 releases will be in 375 ml bottles
– 3 releases will be in 750 ml bottles
– 2 bottles of each release for a total of 12 bottles !
1 RBC T-shirt
2 RBC Glasses
10% off Draft beer in Taproom
Early Access to Bottle Releases (online)
Access to limited, member exclusive release that will not be sold to the public
Option to pick up the bottles yourself or assign a trustee to do so for you
First dibs on Third Edition Rare Bottle Club
All for $300 + Florida Sales Tax
While unlikely, bottle release format is subject to change
Total of 6,750 ml of beer will be distributed
Second Edition Membership will conclude when 6,750ml of beer has been distributed
Exclusivity:
We will be brewing Rare Bottle Club beers exclusively for members and not for the general public. Any excess bottles from batches will be either made available to members for purchase or cellared for later “club only” vintage releases.
Cancellation:
Fees for our bottle club are not refundable and memberships cannot be cancelled by members for any reason. We can’t think of many reasons to cancel anyone’s membership ourselves, but we do reserve the right to do so.
Tentative Beer Release Plans
-2x 375s Biere de Coupage Batch 2
Biere de Coupage is our Solera Style wild ale. This beer was created by blending some of Odd Breed’s first beers into one 500L French Oak Puncheon on November 8th of 2017. Broken Tail (wild witbier), Golden Eyes (golden wild ale), Dinkel Wheat (spelt saison), and Biere d’Avril (wild lager) were used in the original blend, and on May 15th of 2018, two thirds of the puncheon was emptied to create Biere de Coupage Batch 1. That same day the puncheon was then refilled with Past & Future, our flagship saison. As such, Batch 2 of Biere de Coupage is a blend of one third Biere de Coupage Batch 1 (now barrel aged for a total of 20 months) and two thirds Past & Future barrel aged for 14 months. Because these blends mingled together for 14 months in the same barrel, the resulting beer is more cohesive and complex than what could be achieved from simply blending Batch 1 of Biere de Coupage with 14-month barrel aged Past & Future. 5.5% ETA October/November 2019
-2x 375s Wild Lager w/Angelcots (White-Flesh Apricots)
For this beer we are utilizing a special version of Biere d’Avril (our wild lager) that was brewed in June of 2017, and barrel aged for 21 months. We then refermented on Angelcots at a rate of 3 pounds per gallon of beer. Angelcots are a unique varietal of white-flesh apricots from California that are incredibly juicy with a sweet honey, almost tangerine-like flavor. They have a very short growing season and this specialty varietal was not easy to acquire. Apricots are a high acid fruit, so to balance the acidity of the fruit we picked our wild lager as our base beer, which has soft acidity and layers of Brett funk with pronounced French oak tannins. 6.5% ETA November/December 2019
-2x 750s Mango Golden Wild Ale Dry Hopped with Wet Hops
We blended a couple of our golden wild ales aged 14 months in French Oak puncheons, and then refermented with organic mangos at a rate of 2.5 pounds per gallon. After refermenting the mangos, this beer will be transferred to a tank filled with fresh, wet hops. The varietal of wet hops chosen will depend on crop quality and availability, and a hop which enhances the tropical notes from the mangos will be used. Wet hops are picked at peak ripeness and then flown overnight from the Yakima Valley in Washington State, so that they can be added to our beer within 24 hours of being picked from the bine. Compared to dried hops, wet hops feature unique, intense aromatics and flavors that typically exude notes of ripe stone fruit, melon, and citrus. Some people may remember a Citra wet hopped beer I made four years ago, which had delicious notes of gooseberries, sauvignon blanc, and mandarin orange. The logistics of overnighting wet hops to Florida make this a challenging undertaking, but the results are worth the effort. Unlike other wet hopped beers, wild ales that are dry hopped with wet hops age surprisingly well. 6.5% ETA January/February 2020
-2x 750s Halo Kibbles/Moras Blended into freshly emptied Pinot Noir barrels w/Black Currants and Black Mulberries
We blended an equal amount of Halo Kibbles (golden wild ale with 2.5 pounds per gallon of red raspberries) and Moras (golden wild ale with 2.5 pounds per gallon of blackberries) into freshly emptied French oak Pinot Noir barrels, and refermented in those barrels with Black Currants and Black Mulberries. The second round of fruit refermentation in fresh Pinot Noir barrels ensures that this blend will be redolent of fresh berries and red wine, with plenty of tannins and jammy juices. This beer is blended from four brews with different recipes– the oldest part of this blend is over 24 months old, while the youngest portion is 18 months old. 6.5% ETA February/March 2020
-2x 375s Lambic Inspired Spontaneous beer w/Black Raspberries
On January 3rd of 2018 we created our first spontaneous beer at Odd Breed, and to be certain that this is a true spontaneous beer and not inoculated with our house mixed culture, we aged the beer in freshly emptied French Oak Sangiovese wine puncheons that were imported from Italy. We refermented this beer with Black Raspberries at a rate of 2 pounds per gallon of beer. Black Raspberries provide a deeper color, more tannins, and a blackberry jam note that is missing from the more typical red varietal of raspberries. While this beer is fruit forward, the turbid mash and aged hops, along with Pompano terroir and 2 years of aging, make this an incredibly unique and complex beer. This beer is as close as we can get to making a Lambic in Florida. (True Lambic can only be made within the Senne Valley in Belgium) 6.5% ETA March/April 2020
-2x 750s TBD
About Odd Breed Wild Ales
Based in Pompano Beach, FL, Odd Breed Wild Ales is one of just a handful of breweries in the country focusing on producing wild ales that are fermented and aged in oak. OB’s management views oak-aged wild ales as the ultimate, most complex type of beer—and customers and beer lovers agree wholeheartedly. For additional information, visit: OddBreed.com and to sign up directly for the membership, visit: shop.oddbreed.com
While the number of craft breweries in Florida continues to rise, like the rest of the United States, yesterday brought news of another group of breweries joining forces and joining companies.
From Barrel of Monks Brewing newsletter:
Barrel of Monks is excited to announce that our partners are now co-owners of Odd Breed Wild Ales! This dream team was a long time coming, and we’re delighted to make it official.
Look forward to new specialty beers, added selections and an increase in rare and aged bottles and drafts. You will be able to buy Odd Breed’s beer in our tasting room, and also be able to order Barrel of Monks in the Odd Breed location.
Best of all, both entities will remain strongly independent craft breweries…no nonsense here. Now that’s something to toast to.
(9:00am July 24th) Some clarification from Odd Breed Wild Ales via Facebook:
As co-founder and brewmaster, I have retained all of my original ownership percentage at Odd Breed. My former business partner sold his shares to my good friends at Barrel of Monks. Barrel of Monks and Odd Breed are separate entities. Barrel of Monks did not buy Odd Breed.
About Odd Breed Wild Ales
Odd Breed Wild Ales is a small brewery focused on the production of wild ales and farmhouse ales in Pompano Beach, Florida. At Odd Breed Wild Ales, all of our beers are fermented with our unique mixed culture of wild yeast and bacteria, and aged in oak barrels. We make beers inspired by our favorite Lambics and Farmhouse ales of Belgium, yet our focus is on creating unique barrel aged wild ales, many of which utilize Florida’s vast array of fresh citrus and tropical fruit.
Our beers are driven by experimentation and curiosity—we aren’t afraid to brew something atypical, but we also aren’t afraid to dump bad beer. We don’t brew trendy or gimmicky beer. We don’t skimp on ingredients or process, and our products take months and sometimes years before they are ready. Our beer is not easy to make and it is very labor intensive, but we think it is worth the effort. We hope you like to drink the beers we like to make!
About Barrel of Monks Brewing
Barrel of Monks Brewing is a Belgian-inspired craft brewery in Boca Raton, FL. Barrel of Monks Brewing is the first production brewery in the city, and the first brewery in the state to focus 100% on Traditional Belgian Inspired Ales.
The idea for the brewery was born several years ago when a group of Belgian-beer loving friends started traveling to Belgium to see how their favorite beers were brewed. Along the way, they learned about themselves as well as the beer. The three friends started brewing themselves and never looked back, honing their brewing skills to develop high-quality ales reminiscent of the fine ales coming out of Belgium.