Halcyon: Shifting Sands: Cherry

Organic barrel aged sour gold with cherry • 7.6 % • Halcyon Barrel House

Organic cherries are up as the feature fruit in this third rendition of Halcyon’s Shifting Sands. The base sour gold is aged in red wine barrels from six to twelve months. A select blend of these barrels was then aged on both tart Montmorency variety and dark sweet cherries for another six months. This one’s all cherry.

History & Style

Shifting Sands is an organic sour golden ale that is in essence, the canvas for each edition of this beer. Each version of Shifting Sands features a different treatment of varieties of fruit, re-fermented and aged in barrels or foeders. The idea behind this project is to play with various fruit re-fermentation in a semi-constant environment, creating each time a balanced beer that both showcases the fruit used, and respects the base sour gold, Shifting Sands.

Tasting Notes

Shifting Sands Cherry pours undisturbed, a perfect cherry red hue. The aroma is cherry first and foremost, with notes of dried fruit and cherry pie. The flavour is undeniably cherry-forward, lots of tangy tartness with light wine notes backing up the dominant cherry character. The body is light, with moderate carbonation, and dries out after each sip with lingering cherry flavour.

Available at…

The Beau’s taproom

INGREDIENTS

Local spring water, organic cherries, organic barley and wheat malts, organic oats, yeast, bacteria

MALTS

Pilsner, Vienna, Wheat, Munich, Acidulated, Oats (all organic)

HOPS

Organic Strisselspalt

YEAST

Saccharomyces, brettanomyces, lactic acid bacteria.

ALC/VOL

7.6 %

IBU’S

FG

0.5 P

IDEAL SERVING TEMPERATURE

7 C