{"id":2718,"date":"2018-01-17T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:00:53","slug":"beyond-bottle-unfamiliar-space-biere-brut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-unfamiliar-space-biere-brut\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: The Unfamiliar Space of Bi\u00e8re Brut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I swung by the Calicraft booth at the most recent Great American Beer Festival to catch up, knowing Reserve Series Ros\u00e9 was on the Rare Beer Club schedule later in the year. Calicraft opened in the East Bay back in 2012, such that we just missed including them in our release of The Northern California Craft Beer Guide<\/em>, which came out the same year. My earliest coverage of these folks focused on their flagship \u2018sparkling ale\u2019 as part of a roundup of bi\u00e8res brut and their related brethren in RateBeer Weekly. <\/em>Calicraft\u2019s dry, crisp sparkling ale (Buzzerkeley) uses Champagne yeast and robust carbonation in a way similar to Deus and the various Malheurs of this sort\u2014the Champagne-like beers that Michael Jackson, in a slim chapter in Great Beers of Belgium<\/em>, referred to as bi\u00e8res brut (carefully tuned to avoid the Champagne region\u2019s wrath).<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to tell you the world\u2019s now awash in these creamy, effervescent, Champagne-inspired beers. But Calicraft\u2019s remained one of the main U.S. players working with Champagne yeast, both in this month\u2019s featured Reserve Series Ros\u00e9 as well as throughout the brewery\u2019s Barrel Project series and beyond, continuing their focus on wine yeasts. Malheurs and Deus remain two reliable go-tos for formal bi\u00e8re brut. And a handful of other brewers are finding success, too, including New Zealand\u2019s Garage Project with Hops On Pointe, a \u201cChampagne Pilsner\u201d.<\/p>\n

Have you tried a Champagne-inspired beer before? Is your local doing a bi\u00e8re brut or some sort of sparkling ale worth checking out? Join the conversation on Twitter @rarebeerclub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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