Two of Tarts is undeniably refreshing with passionfruit and mango flavors dripping with each sip. This beer was inspired by the traditional German style, gose, a refreshingly tart, sessionable beer brewed with coriander and a hint of salt. Place all bets on tropical with this golden ale this summer.

Golden sour aged in 2 red wine barrels for 12 months, then we added blackcurrant and blackberry at a rate of 3 lb/bbl.

Laurentian: Superior is a spontaneously fermented beer brewed at Ore Dock Brewing Company in Marquette and chilled in a coolship next to Lake Superior. The next day we transported the chilled wort to Speciation to ferment in six neutral oak barrels for the rest of 2017. In early 2018 we selected two of those barrels to blend into our first spontaneous release, Laurentian: Superior.

Our collaboration with Cascade Brewing in Portland, Oregon, began from a place of mutual respect and admiration. Both breweries were founded in 1998 and started sour beer programs that focus on utilizing whole fruits and achieving balanced acidity. Pearpawsterous is a sour ale aged on whole pawpaws from Indiana and a custom blend of pears from Oregon, fruits indigenous to the home state of each brewery. Our rendition is aged for three months on Basis, our Belgian-inspired, Lambic-style base beer. The result is a sour ale with layers of pawpaw and pear flavors, zesty carbonation and pleasantly tart, dry finish.

Our blonde lambic-style sour ale, Basis, serves as the backbone for Oak & White.  Selected barrels are transferred and aged on a white grape varietal. The white grape varietal used for Oak and White is Traminette.
Oak & White has zesty carbonation, with the appearance of light straw in the glass. White wine aromas dominate, tempered with hints of tart, tropical and fruity notes. Flavors of white wine continue upon tasting, with a sour beer character complimenting the tropical notes of the selected grape. Finish is dry, with petite grape notes.

We traded a few cases of beer for wine barrels from our friends and neighbors at Oliver Winery in 2006, resulting in award-winning red and white blends. 2018 is our first release of Oak & Rosé, our blonde base beer, Basis, aged on Chambourcin grapes. This blend creates tart and sweet flavors reminiscent of dry rosé wine.

We traded a few cases of beer for wine barrels from our friends and neighbors at Oliver Winery in 2006, resulting in Oak & Red. A select blend of Crimson, a Flanders Red Ale, and Basis, a Lambic Style Blonde Ale, are blended and the barrels are transferred and aged on Catawba, a red grape varietal. Oak & Red pours a luscious cooper color with red highlights. Jammy grape aromas permeate with hints of charred oak and petite sourness. Full red grape flavors are balanced by tartness and complexity from blended beer selection. Finish is mildly sweet with lingering Catawba juiciness.

In the search for a beer that is best suited for summer, the obvious emphasis should be on refreshment and few ingredients are more undeniably refreshing than citrus fruit. The combination of tangerine and lemon zest add a bright, thirst-quenching complexity to a lower gravity example of a classic Belgian Saison.
Life Exotic is crisp, refreshing and the blend of fruit and spice finishes clean and dry with a slight, palate-cleansing bitterness. Grab a 6 pk, a friend and chill with zest on the water this summer.

A Soloist loves to break free… leaving behind both the shackles and the safety of the group.  They prefer the simplicity and singularity of being out-front, alone.  The Soloist Golden Ale is simple and uses a single type of grain and only two varieties of hops; unaccompanied by anything unnecessary.  Only Pilsner malt and cane sugar are used in the creation of the sweet wort, yielding a remarkably dry and crisp finish. Sterling and Czech Saaz hops are used exclusively for their delicate, clean and floral character.  The finished beer is highly carbonated, creating a highly effervescent mouth feel, similar to that of Champagne.  Elegant, sneaky and warming.