Gin Barrel Aged Tree Tipper 2023

Tree Tipper is the result of carefully considered combinations. Spruce tips with honey. Ingredient with process. We steeped spruce tips in locally sourced honey from The Hive Supply prior to adding both ingredients to the fermenting beer. This process allowed enzymes in the honey to transform some of the more aggressive, resinous compounds in the spruce tips into flavors and aromas that are more floral and fruity. Notes of green mango, toasted white bread, pineapple, cotton candy, maple sap and unripe strawberries lead to a delicate finish of spruce and tangerine zest.

We rested this version in Caledonia Spirits Tom Cat Gin barrels for a year with our mixed culture and brettanomyces. After aging we added some fresh spruce tips to…spruce it up…sorry. The result is a truly remarkable beer with notes of bright citrus, spruce tips, honey-sweet aromas, fruity pebbles, juniper mango, and lightly sweet notes of vanillin and a lightly acidic finish.