Going on sale this Thursday, March 4th, Fremont Brewing & Floodland Brewing's Woodland Park Avenue North is a marriage of ideas.
Unbeknownst to the average imbiber, what’s in your glass takes weeks, months, and sometimes year’s to produce. Oh sure, breweries could grind up some grain, add a dash of hops, some water, and a splash of yeast and call it beer, but you wouldn’t want to drink it. Thankfully for the brewers at Fremont Brewing and nearby Floodland Brewing, didn’t just toss a bunch of ingredients into a stainless-steel tank and call it beer. Instead, they took their time both in coming up with a thoughtful recipe and in releasing a love letter called Woodland Park Avenue North.
But like so many collaborations, the genesis of this beer didn’t happen overnight. In fact, the brewers, well, here are their words on the matter.
“It all started with a busted, leaky mess of an oak foedre from France. Adam Paysse, owner/brewer of Floodland, had purchased the foedre and upon receipt realized it would take a great deal more time and effort to bring it back to life than he had for the project and graciously gifted it to Fremont,” said Matt Lincecum, Co-Founder and Brewer of Fremont Brewing.
Much like breaking a bottle over the bow of a newly christened ship, Woodland Park Avenue North celebrates the re-christening of Fremont Brewing’s refurbished foedre, made with Adam’s help.
image courtesy Fremont Brewing Company
Made with a blend from Fremont’s Black Heron Project, Woodland Park Avenue North is made with malted and raw Washington triticale (a hybrid of both wheat and rye) and barley grown and malted at Mecca Grade in Oregon. Following this process, Woodland Park is mashed-hopped with aged, whole leaf hops from Washington, before being aged in a refurbished oak wine foedre, chaperoned by mixed yeast cultures from Fremont and Floodland.
Post-fermentation, Woodland Park is re-fermented on Viognier grapes from Washington’s 2019 harvest, and then conditioned in the bottle producing natural carbonation. The result is a beer that is a reflection of The Black Heron Project goal of creating small-batch, mixed fermentation beers, made with local grain, hops, and fruit.
A 7.2% ABV (alcohol by volume) isn’t just a collaboration, it’s also a celebration of the street where Fremont Brewing Company’s Urban Beer Garden, original brewery, and Floodland’s fermentation and aging facility call home.
Oh, be you a fan of collaborations, mixed-culture beers, Fremont Brewing Company, or Floodland’s, you’ll want to purchase a bottle (or 2 but only2), this Thursday, March 4th. Going on sale at 12 pm, Fremont Brewing Company will host the sale online with a few 750ml bottles and “Magnums” available. Afterward, the brewery will provide pickups from March 6th at their Urban Beer Garden starting at 12 pm.
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About Fremont Brewing:
We are an independent, family-owned, award-winning craft brewery founded in 2009 to brew small-batch artisan beers made with the best local ingredients we can find … Because Beer Matters! Fremont Brewing is known for its’ barrel-aged beers including B-Bomb Imperial Winter Ale, The Rusty Nail, an Imperial Stout with Licorice and Cinnamon Bark and Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Star Imperial Oatmeal Stout. Fremont’s year-round offerings include Lush IPA®, Golden Pilsner, Interurban IPA, Sky Kraken Hazy Pale Ale, Dark Star Imperial Oatmeal Stout and creative one-off beers, such as its’ Head Full of Dynomite Hazy IPA Series and the Field to Ferment fresh hop series. Fremont Brewing…Because Beer Matters! www.fremontbrewing.com/our-story
About Floodland Brewing:
A Brewery in Seattle, founded in 2017, focused on barrel-aged and mixed-culture beers.
