A wild & spontaneous ale project
We work slowly. Wort cools overnight in an open coolship, ferments with the yeast living in our walls, and rests in barrels for one to three years before we ever blend a single bottle.
Oak & Wild is a blendery, not a factory. We brew a turbid mash, cool it overnight in a shallow copper coolship open to the night air, and let the wild yeasts decide what happens next. Years later, we taste every barrel and blend by palate alone.
Each blend is a one-time pulling of specific barrels. When a release is gone, it never returns the same way.
From the blending bench
Spontaneous
A blend of one, two, and three-year-old spontaneous ales. Bright, lemony, electric.
Spontaneous
Young and old barrels married, bottle-conditioned for a fine, persistent mousse.
Fruited
Two years on whole sour cherries in oak. Tart, deep, almost wine-like.
Fruited
Late-harvest apricots, eighteen months in barrel, soft stone-fruit acidity.
Farmhouse
Dry, peppery, hay and citrus from a slow Brettanomyces secondary.
Farmhouse
Low-alcohol table saison, delicate and refreshing, brewed for the harvest.
The blendery
Address
12 Cooperage Road, River Meadows
Hours
Thu–Fri · 3pm–9pm Sat · 12pm–9pm Sun · 12pm–6pm Mon–Wed · cellar work only
Reach
+1 (555) 012-0337
cellar@oakandwild.beer