Collection: Field & Oak

Peach & Nectarine | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Peach & Nectarine | 2021 Harvest is a blend of two different batches from our first season of Field & Oak during Fall of 2018; one with blueberry blossom honey added to the coolship. This three-year spontaneous blend had New Jersey yellow and white nectarines and peaches at a rate of 8 lbs per gallon. At bottling this bottle had an average age of 39 months and has been conditioning with young spontaneous since its bottling in 2022. Peach & Nectarine | 2021 pours deep gold with notes of stonefruit, honey & vanilla, finished with a balanced acidity.

Peach & Raspberry | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Peach & Raspberry | 2021 Harvest – The base for this traditional spontaneous beer was brewed in the Spring 2020 brewing season and was approximately 16 months old when it was fruited directly in oak with red raspberries sourced from Pure Berry Co. in Vineland NJ followed by a large amount of crushed yellow clingstone peaches from Phillips Farms in Milford, NJ. After 6 months of conditioning on fruit this beer was then racked out of oak and bottled shortly afterwards before then resting an additional 12 months prior to release. Peach & Raspberry pours with a pretty peach yellow color with hints of pink and pushes heavy raspberry fruit flesh aromatics with subtle background peach notes all pulled together by a medium plus acidity level.

Peach & Strawberry | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Peach & Strawberry | 2021 Harvest is from three different batches of pour traditional spontaneous recipe over two brewing seasons. The first from Fall 2019 fermented in one of our Foudres; the second from the Spring of 2020 and the third from another Foudre from Fall 2020. Hand picked New Jersey strawberries and yellow clingstone peaches were added to the blend at a combined rate of 7lbs per gallon. Bottled in January of 2022 with young spontaneous to condition, Peach & Strawberry | 2021 pours with a deep orange, light pink due with notes of peach flesh, crushed berries and peach rings and crushed strawberries.

Raspberry & Cherry | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Raspberry & Cherry | 2021 Harvest was pulled from a single barrel of traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beer from the 2020 brewing season. In early July 2021, we received a fresh harvest of Montmorency Cherries and added these directly to oak with the beer at a rate of over 4 lbs per gallon. Soon after, we received our harvest of New Jersey Red Raspberries and added them directly to the same barrels at a rate of over 1.5 lbs per gallon. At bottling, this blend had an average age of 17 months and has been conditioning since its bottling in 2022. Raspberry & Cherry | 2021 Harvest pours an ambered red with an off-white pink foam, and pushes aromatics of sweet red fruits, raspberry jam and underlying cherry pie filling. Flavors of cinnamon and a particularly jammy cherry profile balance a firm raspberry acidity and fruit tannins.​

Rhubarb | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Rhubarb | 2021 Harvest is a blend of two traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beers brewed in the Fall of 2019 and Spring of 2020. ​ In the spring, our team made the trip to get rhubarb from a 105-year-old patch in New Jersey. The rhubarb stalks were split and added directly to oak at a rate of over 4 lbs per gallon. ​ At bottling, this beer had an average age of 26 months. It has been conditioning with young spontaneously fermented beer since its bottling in 2022. ​ Rhubarb | 2021 pours a burnt yellow color with a firm white foam, with aromatics of peach and flavor notes of fruit cup and lemon meringue.​

Rhubarb & Nectarine | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Rhubarb & Nectarine | 2021 Harvest was blended from a base of cognac barrel-aged spontaneously fermented beers from the 2019/2020 brewing season. In early July 2021, our team received several hundred pounds of Rhubarb from an over 100-year-old local patch and added them directly to oak with the blend. In early September, we received several hundred pounds of Yellow Nectarines which were then also added as a complement to the blend. The overall fruiting rate of this beer came in at over 6 lbs per gallons. At bottling, this blend had an average age of 27 months and has been conditioning since its bottling in 2022. Rhubarb & Nectarine | 2021 Harvest pours peachy yellow with aromatics of jammy vanilla, deep apricot stonefruit perfume, spritzy high carbonation, fruit syrup and a full mouthfeel supported by a high minerality and low acidity.​.​

Riesling | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Riesling | 2021 Harvest is a blend of traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beers across three brewing seasons, with the oldest portion brewed in the Spring of 2018. In the Fall of 2021, our team picked up freshly harvested whole cluster New Jersey Riesling Grapes, which were then destemmed and added directly to oak with the blend at a rate of over 6.5 lbs per gallon. At bottling, this blend had an average age of 45 months and has been conditioning since its bottling in 2023. Riesling | 2021 pours a clear amber yellow, aromatics of sweet orange blossom honey, waxy grape skins, white raisin and a firm alcohol warmth

Shiro Plum | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Shiro Plum | 2021 Harvest is a blend of traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beers from two batches from the 2018 brewing season; one batch containing New Jersey blueberry blossom honey, and another aged in a chestnut puncheon. In August of 2021, our team picked up that year's New Jersey Shiro plum harvest. We added them whole, directly through the head of a barrel at a rate of over 8 lbs per gallon along with the blend for refermentation. At the time of bottling, this blend had an average age of 30 months and has been conditioning since its bottling in early 2022. Shiro Plum | 2021 Harvest pours bright yellow with orange highlights and a densely creamy foam with aromatics of plums and apricots. A firm but pleasant acidity supports the nuances of plum skins, pineapple upside-down cake and a touch of fermentation funk.

Strawberry & Cherry | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Strawberry & Cherry | 2021 Harvest is a blend of traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beers across two brewing seasons, with the oldest portion brewed in 2019. A portion of the blend was aged in one of our foudres. In the late spring, we picked up fresh, overripe strawberries from one of our favorite farms in South Jersey and squished them by hand into the blend for a short period of contact at a rate of 8 lbs per gallon followed by extended oak aging. In June, we received Montmorency cherries and added to a portion of strawberry spontaneously fermented beers at a rate of over 2 lbs per barrel. At bottling, this beer had an average age of 34 months and has been conditioning with young spontaneously fermented beer since its bottling in 2022. Strawberry & Cherry | 2021 pours a ruddy orange with aromatics of strawberry preserves and cinnamon, and flavors of cherry and strawberry rhubarb pie.

Yellow Peach | 2021 Harvest

Spontaneous

Yellow Peach | 2021 Harvest is a complex blend pulling from high gravity, honey and traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beers across three brewing seasons. In July 2021, our team picked up the year's yellow peach harvest and, at the peak of ripeness, hand-crushed the fruit and added it directly to the oak for extended refermentation at a rate of nearly 8 lbs per gallon. The blend was then racked on top of the fruit and allowed to referment with full contact of the peaches as well as their skins and pits for added complexity in the final beer. At the time of bottling, this blend had an average age of 26 months and has been conditioning since its bottling in early 2022. Peach | 2021 Harvest pours a peachy yellow color with a creamy white foam with aromatics of peach cobbler and plush mouthfeel all supported by a light acidity and high minerality.

Black Raspberry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Black Raspberry | 2020 Harvest is a blend composed of two traditional spontaneous beers brewed in the Spring and Fall of 2019. The blend was racked into a single cask with fresh New Jersey black raspberries where it aged on fruit for an additional 6 months. At the time of bottling, the beer had an average age of 19 months. We then laid the beer down in bottle for an additional 9 months of conditioning. Black raspberries bring intensely jammy pie aromatics with a warm, rounded fruitiness and a deep purple color. The blend drinks like a bold red wine with undertones of vanilla and a bit of an earthy funk.

Blackberry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In August 2020, we went to one of our favorite farms in Southern New Jersey to pick up that year’s harvest of locally grown blackberries to add to a carefully selected blend of our spontaneous beers. For this blend, we selected from barrels containing one and two year traditionally crafted spontaneous beer with a particularly low acidic profile to compliment the qualities of those specific berries. The blend soaked on the blackberries at a nearly 50% fruiting rate for two weeks before being transferred back to oak for six months of conditioning. After bottling, Blackberry | 2020 Harvest spent over two years conditioning to bring the fruit and base beer into perfect harmony. The average age of Blackberry | 2020 Harvest is nearly 45 months at release. Blackberry | 2020 Harvest pours a deep purple with burnt orange highlights and a purply white foam. Aromatics of fresh baked blackberry crumble and berry preserves with notes of vanilla and citrus are all reminiscent of these late summer berries.

Blackberry & Blueberry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

For the first release of this fruiting combination, we chose a blend across four different batches brewed in the Spring and Fall seasons of 2019. Approximately 20% of this blend consisted of an experimental batch that we brewed in Spring of 2019 where we replaced the unmalted wheat portion of the grist with unmalted buckwheat. The remaining portion of the blend was traditionally brewed spontaneous beer, a portion of which was aged in a chestnut puncheon. We pulled the blend at an average age of 13 months for fruiting in the summer of 2020. We separately refermented the beer on New Jersey harvested blackberries and blueberries and then conditioned for an additional 10 months in oak. Blackberry & Blueberry | 2020 Harvest pours a burnt purple, pushing aromatics of blackberry ice cream and blueberry wine along with deep flavor notes of raspberry jam, red wine and bramble. It pours with spritely carbonation and drinks with a balanced wine-like malolactic acidity.

Blueberry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In July of 2020, we picked up a massive harvest of New Jersey blueberries from one of our favorite farms. Our team matched those berries with a blend across two years of spontaneously fermented beer, a portion of which was brewed with buckwheat in place of the traditional wheat usage. The beer was racked onto the blueberries and allowed to soak cold to extract all of their fresh berry flavors while limiting their tannic extraction. The beer was then racked off the fruit and back into oak for further conditioning for an additional 10 months. After bottling, Blueberry | 2020 Harvest spent two years conditioning in bottle to allow the fruit and blend to develop gracefully. The average age of Blueberry | 2020 Harvest is 49 months at release. Blueberry | 2020 Harvest pours a purplish pink with a pretty off-white foam. Aromatics of jammy blueberry pie, fresh citrus and peach with a structured mouthfeel and a balancing vinous character.

Chambourcin | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In October 2020, our team visited Bellview Winery to pick up a half a ton of New Jersey grown Chambourcin as they were coming off the crusher destemmer. We immediately transferred a single chestnut puncheon of young 8-month-old traditional spontaneous beer onto the crushed grapes for refermentation on the skins at a 49% fruiting rate. We allowed the beer extended contact with the grape skins before racking it back to oak to condition for an additional 10 months. Finally, we laid the beer down in bottles for an additional 5 months of conditioning. Upon release, Chambourcin will be 23 months old. Chambourcin pours a royal purple while overflowing with aromatics of strawberry, raspberry, wet stone and beautifully delicate funk. It drinks with a creamy mouthfeel with lightly balanced acidity and fruit, akin to a Beaujolais.

Cherry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Cherry | 2020 Harvest comes from a blend of two batches across the Spring and Fall of 2019. Approximately 45% of the blend came from a 16-month-old traditionally brewed spontaneous beer brewed with an elevated hopping rate while the balance of the blend came from 7-month-old traditional spontaneous beer with the addition of New Jersey blueberry blossom honey in the coolship. For Cherry | 2020 Harvest, we pulled this blend with an average age of 11 months for fruiting. We then added a very large amount of New Jersey grown and harvested Montmorency cherries directly to oak barrels with the beer where it rested for an additional 12 months to integrate all aspects of the cherry from the juice, skin and pits. We bottled this blend in June of 2021 and it will have conditioned for over 12 months prior to release. Cherry 2020 Harvest will have an average age of 35 months. Cherry | 2020 Harvest pours with a beautiful blush red with big cherry pie aromatics supported by almond and nuttiness while the flavor brings juicy and jammy stonefruit, a light funk and a very balanced acidity.

Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In June 2020, we traveled down to our favorite New Jersey strawberry farmer to pick up some overripe and incredibly aromatic strawberries. For this blend, our team selected a blend of two casks with an average age of 13 months to showcase the bright strawberry aromatics. After hand crushing the strawberries, we opt for a short contact time to extract the aromatic juices of the strawberries. We then took a portion of this beer and racked it onto the 2020 harvest of New Jersey Montmorency cherries. The beer then conditioned on the whole cherries in oak casks for an additional 6 months prior to bottling. Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 harvest spent an additional 2 years in bottle to allow for additional flavor development. The total average age of Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 Harvest is over 3.5 years at release. Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 Harvest pours a beautiful deep red color with immediate aromatics of fresh strawberries and pie cherries. The top-note perfumy aromatics of strawberries are intermingled with the deeper baking spice, cinnamon and sweet pie notes.

Elderflower | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Grüner Veltliner | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In preparation for the New Jersey wine grape harvest in September 2020, we blended two different batches of our spontaneous base. The first component was from a portion of mature spontaneous beer brewed with buckwheat in place of wheat. The second component was from a traditional batch aged in a Moscatel cask. Freshly pressed juice from New Jersey grown Austrian white wine varietal was added to our spontaneous blend and allowed to referment in oak twelve months before racking it out of oak for bottling. This marked our first use of the elegant Grüner Veltliner grape. At release the average age of Grüner Veltliner | 2020 Harvest is 37 months. Grüner Veltliner | 2020 Harvest pours like a sparkling white wine with high carbonation that pushes a rocky white foam head. Aromatics of fresh cut grass, citron, yuzu and fresh baked brioche from extended bottle conditioning compliment the dry finish.

Merlot | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

During the 2020 harvest, we had the chance to receive New Jersey grown Merlot grapes from our friends at Bellview Winery. The grapes were allowed to undergo carbonic maceration before having a single barrel of mature spontaneously fermented beer racked on the grapes. For the base beer, we chose a barrel from the Spring of 2019 that used a special recipe consisting of New Jersey malted barley and unmalted buckwheat from Rabbit Hill. The beer was allowed to referment on the grapes with 20 days of skin contact before being racked back to oak for extended aging and conditioning for an additional 10 months to mellow. We bottled this blend in August of 2021 and have conditioned it for 15 months prior to release. Merlot | 2020 Harvest will have 46 months of age upon release. Merlot | 2020 Harvest pours a deep maroon with beautiful clarity and a burgundy foam that lasts. The beer presents aromatics of blackberry jam, fresh pressed black cherry juice and pleasant cellar floor with flavors of juicy red fruit, light white pepper all supported by pleasing tannins and well-integrated acidity.

Peach & Grüner Veltliner | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In September 2020 we received our first pressing of some New Jersey grown and harvested Grüner Veltliner juice. In preparation for the blend, our team chose a barrel of mature 2-year-old buckwheat spontaneously fermented beer and a younger traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beer. After marrying the juice with our spontaneously fermented beer, we allowed the blend to referment and mature in oak with the addition of that year's New Jersey yellow peach harvest for an additional year. Peach & Grüner Veltliner was then bottled and conditioned for a year and a half prior to release. The total average age of Peach & Grüner Veltliner 2020 Harvest is just over 3 years at release. Peach & Grüner Veltliner | 2020 Harvest pours a light peach color and is brimming with fresh, juicy peach aromatics. The Grüner Veltliner shows through in the lean, crisp body of the beer that is enhanced with a sparkling high carbonation lending notes of fresh sliced apples, honey, and ginger.

Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest is a blend across three brewing seasons with the oldest component brewed in the Fall of 2018. In 2020, we received a beautiful harvest of New Jersey grown peaches and nectarines. We took our base blend with an average age of 15 months and refermented it on over 6.5 lbs per gallon of yellow peaches and 3 lbs per gallon of yellow and white nectarines before aging it in cask for an additional 5 months prior to packaging. We then laid the beer down in bottle for an additional 11 months of conditioning. Upon release, Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest will be 31 months old. Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest pours a pale yellow with juicy aromatics of ripe peaches along with floral top notes, flavors of grapefruit, a touch of noyaux and a pleasantly balanced acidity.

Peach & Noyaux | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Peach & Noyaux | 2020 Harvest was pulled from several batches across the 18|19 and 19|20 brewing seasons.⁣ ⁣ The blend had an average age of eight months for fruiting. 90% of this blend originated from a turbid mashed spontaneous beer brewed with only barley and the addition of both aged and fresh hops. The remaining portion of this blend came from traditionally brewed spontaneous beers.⁣ ⁣ For fruiting we received 1,100lbs of New Jersey grown yellow Clingstone peaches which had the pits separated and were hand-crushed at peak ripeness.⁣ ⁣ We then lightly cracked the peach pits and added them to the blend with the fruit. The beer was allowed to referment and condition on the fruit for an additional year in oak.⁣ ⁣ We bottled this blend in August of 2021 and it will have conditioned for 12 months prior to release.⁣ ⁣ Peach & Noyaux | 2020 Harvest will have an average age of 32 months upon release.⁣ ⁣ Peach & Noyaux pours a bright yellow with aromatics of juicy peach flesh, vanilla and marzipan. ⁣

Pinot Noir & Chardonnay | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In September 2020, we drove to Northern New Jersey to pick up freshly harvested whole clusters of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes from one of our favorite local grape growers. To complement these grapes we selected a blend of two unique barrels, comprising of a two year old component brewed with buckwheat and an eight month old component brewed with spelt. We hand crushed and destemmed the grape clusters before adding them directly to oak. The spontaneous blend was then racked on top and allowed extensive contact time with the grapes and the skins. After a year it was racked to stainless for bottling. The average age of Pinot Noir & Chardonnay | 2020 Harvest is nearly 46 months at release. Pinot Noir Chardonnay | 2020 Harvest pours with a pink hue and white rocky foam head. It has aromatics of strawberries, cranberries, tree-ripened bosc pears, apricots and a firm minerality and pleasantly earthy notes.