2018 Blog

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We’re happy to announce that we are releasing our second batch of Super Ultramega Hyperforce today at 4pm! Super Ultramega Hyperforce is a farmhouse ale with dried tarragon, ginger salt, and refermented with cantaloupe.

This beer was brewed in July with Texas Hill Country water, malted barley from Blacklands Malt, and rolled oats. Ginger salt was added to the boil. It then fermented in stainless steel with our mixed culture of native...

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We sometimes forget the key word of agriculture is "culture" -- the myriad of learned experiences unique to countless societies around the planet. We share our humanity through dance, music and art, but we must also share it by working together for the development of plants, animals, and food.

To help toward this end, we recently hosted our first ever international farmer here at Jester King named Luke Barbuto. Luke is...

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We're pleased to announce that our next Founder's Tour & Guided Tasting will be this Saturday, December 22nd from Noon to 1:30pm! Jester King founder Jeffrey Stuffings will take guests on a private tour of the brewery, followed by a guided tasting of rare and vintage Jester King beers.

- Guests will receive a welcome pour of one of Jester King's farmhouse ales.

- The tour will progress through...

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Today at 4pm, we'll be releasing our latest batches of Noble King Hoppy Farmhouse Ale and El Cedro Hoppy Cedar-Aged Farmhouse Ale!

Noble King, along with Le Petit Prince, is about as simple, straightforward expression of place as we're capable of achieving through beer. We brew with well water and local grains, boil with noble varieties of hops, and ferment in stainless steel with our mixed culture. The result is a hoppy, bitter, dry,...

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For SPON Day on Saturday, December 8th, we'll be releasing 2018 SPON Three Year Blend, 2018 SPON Still and 2018 SPON Shiraz & Cabernet Sauvignon!

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We're pleased and excited to announce 2018 SPON Estate Peach — our first-ever beer refermented with fruit grown at Jester King!

Back in 2014, we planted a peach tree right next to the brewery. We don't actually know what variety of peach tree it is, but we do know it's an early fruiting tree. Its peaches are low in sugar content, high in acidity, and very aromatic. We've watched the tree slowly grow over the past four...

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This Friday at 4pm when our Tasting Room opens, we will be releasing our 4th batch of Foudreweizen, a collaboration with Live Oak Brewery in Austin, TX!

For this beer, Live Oak brews the wort for their Hefeweizen. The wort is transported to Jester King and placed in one of our oak foudres, then fermented with hefeweizen yeast and our mixed culture of native yeasts and bacteria.

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We're pleased to announce that our private event hall at Jester King is now open for bookings!

Earlier this year when we purchased the ranch we've called home since 2010, we inherited a beautiful, secluded private event space at the heart of the property. We're happy to now be accepting bookings for weddings, rehearsal...

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POST-EVENT UPDATE -- 12/09/18

Thank you very much to everyone who came our to SPON Day yesterday! We hope you had a great time, and enjoyed good food, drink and community with friends and family.

As far as the spontaneous beer and wine we have left today, here's the list. Everything is available by the glass and to go unless otherwise noted. We're open from 12-9pm Sundays (kitchen closes...

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We're happy to announce that our restaurant is now open on Thursday nights! Starting this Thursday, November 29th, we'll be open every Thursday from 4pm to 10pm with our kitchen closing at 9pm.

Our restaurant is located just down the hill from the brewery in an old barn. It's the space formerly occupied by Stanley's Farmhouse Pizza. There are two bars, three wood-fired ovens, a kitchen, a large beer hall, and an...

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This Friday, November 23rd (Black Friday) at Noon, we'll be releasing our 2018 blends of Cerveza de Tempranillo, Bière de Blanc du Bois & Birra de Sangiovese! All three of these beers are aged in oak barrels for roughly a year, blended, then refermented with Texas-grown Tempranillo, Blanc du Bois and Sangiovese grapes respectively.

The overlap between wild beer and...

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We are excited to announce that we are releasing Le Petit Prince in magnum bottles today when our tasting room opens at 4pm. The magnum sized bottle is meant for sharing, and what a better time to share than on Thanksgiving!

Le Petit Prince is about as simple as a farmhouse beer can be - unfiltered well water from the Trinity aquifer, a small amount of Texas-grown barley and wheat, and a good amount of Saaz hops. We...

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This week we'll be releasing our third-ever batch of Jester King Buddha's Brew — our farmhouse ale blended and re-fermented with Buddha's Brew Kombucha tea!

What would later be called "Jester King Buddha's Brew" was one of our first-ever test batches. In 2010, we took some of our homebrew and blended it with kombucha tea from Buddha's Brew at about a 10:1 ratio. The idea was to...

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We're excited to announce that our Inaugural Vineyard Tour & Wine Tasting will be Saturday, November 24th from Noon to 1:30pm at Jester King!

Jester King Wine Coordinator Traci Walker will lead guests on a private tour of our 3.5 acre vineyard, followed by a guided tasting of some of Traci's favorite natural wines!

Here are more details:

- Guests will receive a welcome pour of Jester King Terroir...

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We're pleased to announce that we will be releasing our latest batch of Figlet today! Figlet is a farmhouse ale refermented with Texas figs smoked by our friends at Franklin BBQ.

For this year’s Figlet, we sourced 200 pounds of figs from Little Om Farm in Elgin, Texas. Those figs were taken to Franklin BBQ where they...

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We're excited to once again be hosting our tree planting day at Jester King! This Sunday, November 11th at Noon, we're looking for 100 volunteers to help us plant fruit trees at our farm. We promise an early afternoon of nature, music, beer, camaraderie, education and fun. We hope you'll join us!

We ask that all volunteers arrive at Noon on the 11th with gloves, a shovel or spade, water, and closed-toe shoes. After...

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We're happy to release our latest batch of Colonel Toby today! Colonel Toby is our hoppy little farmhouse ale brewed in collaboration with The Kernel Brewery in London, England. We love simple, little, crisp, bitter, drinkable beers, and Colonel Toby fits this bill. Over the last few years, it has emerged as a favorite amongst our staff here at Jester King and garners excitement...

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We have a new goat in our herd for mating season! His name is Prince Charming, and he's a Nigerian Dwarf goat from Darla Faye's Mini-Farm near San Antonio.

We're really excited to have Prince Charming join us. His grandfather was the grand champion best Nigerian Dwarf goat in the country two-years running, and he has a lovely demeanor that exudes warmth and kindness. He'll be...

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We're very happy to introduce 2018 SPON — Texas Plum & Nectarine! It's a blend of one and two year old 100% spontaneously fermented beer from 2016 and 2017, refermented with Bruce sour plums from Lightsey Farms in Mexia, Texas, Morris plums from Engel Farms in Stonewall, Texas, and white nectarines from Cooper Farms in Fairfield, Texas!

Our SPON beers are 100% spontaneously fermented with airborne yeast and bacteria collected...

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We’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve hired Damien Brockway to be our Executive Chef at Jester King! Damien is a very talented, thoughtful, passionate chef, who now runs the kitchen at our restaurant (formerly Stanley's Farmhouse Pizza). Over the last few months, Damien has begun creating food that mirrors the philosophy of our beer. He's been using local agriculture, fermentation, and old-world techniques to make...

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We're very happy to introduce Jester King Terroir Project!

Terroir Project is collaborative endeavor organized by our friends at Firestone Walker Brewing Company in Paso Robles, California. It involves stretching the limits between wine and beer by co-fermenting 51% wort with 49% native grapes....

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This Friday, October 5th, we're pleased to release CRU-55 Blend 2!

CRU-55 is our "grand cru" version of RU-55 Barrel Aged Sour Red Ale. For Blend 2, we aged RU-55 for 26 months in Pinot Noir Barrels. Soft, elegant acidity slowly developed over time as the beer took on a vinous character.

This is our second blend of CRU-55. It's 6.9% alcohol by volume and was packaged in August. It's 100%...

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We are extremely excited to announce the lineup for 2018 Jester King Funk n' Sour Fest on October 25th! We believe it's the best lineup yet and brings together an incredible collection of food and drink talent from our area.

For those unfamiliar, Funk n' Sour Fest is the night when we pair some of the best restaurants in and around Austin with some of our favorite producers of beer, wine and cider. Each restaurant...

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We are excited to host Zwanze Day this Saturday! This celebration marks our eighth year hosting. Unlike past years, 2018 Zwanze Day is open to the public! No ticket is necessary to join the festivities.

Here's what to expect:

Our 30 liter keg of 2018 Zwanze will be available at a tent located south of the brewery towards our farm. We ask that you please wait until Noon to start a line at the...

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In our effort to farm here at Jester King, a major challenge we face is the condition of our soil. Our soil, along with much throughout central Texas, has been either abandoned, overtilled or overgrazed. What’s left behind is often in need of much repair in order to support local agriculture. Fortunately, we have a familiar friend we can turn to for help – fermentation.

To fertilize our soil, we’ve chosen to use a technique adapted...

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We're very pleased and excited to announce that this weekend we'll be releasing 2018 SPON Raspberry & Cherry!

2018 SPON Raspberry & Cherry is a blend of one, two and three year old 100% spontaneously fermented beer refermented with raspberries and cherries.

For our 2018 blend, we selected two puncheons of SPON from 2014, two puncheons of SPON from 2015, and one 225 liter barrel of SPON from 2016. After creating the...

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We're pleased to announce that our 2018 batch of Kollaborationsbier will be released this Friday! Kollaborationsbier is Live Oak Pilz wort fermented with our mixed culture of wild yeast and bacteria.

The wort is brewed at Live Oak, then driven across Austin and out to Jester King for fermentation in stainless steel. This year's batch is 4.3% alcohol by volume. It was...

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Our inaugural Founder's Tour & Guided Tasting will be on Saturday, October 6th, 2018 from Noon to 1:30pm! Jester King founder Jeffrey Stuffings will take guests on a private tour of the brewery, followed by a guided tasting of rare and vintage Jester King beers.

- Guests will receive a welcome pour of one of Jester King's farmhouse ales.

- The tour will progress through Jester King's brewhouse...

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This weekend, we're pleased to release our 2018 Bière de Coupage Blended Farmhouse Ale. Bière de Coupage is a dry-hopped blend of young farmhouse ale with old 100% spontaneously fermented beer.

"Bière de Coupage" simply means beer that is "cut" or "blended". We originally learned of the technique listening to the lectures of Yvan de Baets of Brasserie de la Senne not long after we opened. Yvan spoke of...

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We're pleased to introduce a new vegan pizza on our menu called the "Jeffries"!

For the Jeffries, we use two different sauces — one made with charred local tomatoes blackened in our wood fired oven, Sherry Barrel Atrial Rubicite vinegar, burnt onion, and olive oil from Texas Olive Oil Company, and another green sauce made with five different herbs from our farm and Texas wildflower...

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This Friday, September 14th at 4pm, we'll be releasing 2018 Aurelian Lure — our barrel-aged sour beer refermented with apricots!

For this year's blend, we took eight oak barrels of beer and refermented it with 1,200 pounds of apricots at a ratio of 3 lbs. per gallon. We de-pitted the apricots from Blossom Hill Orchard in Patterson, California by hand before adding them to...

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We're pleased to have one of our very first food offerings on our menu this weekend. It's still a little surreal for us to have a kitchen at Jester King now, after operating without one for nearly eight years.

For one of our first dishes, we received a pig from Chubby Dog Farm in Grapeland, Texas, made a stock from the roasted bones infused with charred vegetables and herbs from around the...

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We're pleased to introduce 2018 Das Überkind Vieille Saison. Das Überkind is our vieille or "old" saison aged for about a year in oak barrels.

This is only our fifth-ever release of Das Überkind. Most of the Das Überkind we make ends up being refermented with fruit. But every year or two, we like to take some our favorite barrels and blend them without fruit. Our Head Brewer Averie Swanson writes:

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2018 Zwanze Day at Jester King is Saturday, September 29th! This is the day when Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Belgium releases a special, one of a kind beer simultaneously at dozens of locations around the world. We're honored to once again be one of the host locations!

This year's Zwanze is a special blend of Lambics aged in wine barrels previously containing either Sangiovese, Amarone or Chianti wine. It's an ode...

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We're pleased to introduce 2018 Jester King 分 桃 (Fēn táo) — our barrel-aged wild ale refermented with Hill Country peaches! This year's blend was refermented on three different varieties of peaches (Carored, Regal and June Gold) grown at Vogel Orchard near Fredericksburg, Texas, about an hour drive west of Jester King....

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We're pleased to introduce Jester King Soul Conduit -- a table beer aged in gin barrels and refermented with dried makrut limes and thyme!

Soul Conduit began when our Head Brewer Averie Swanson decided to put our Le Petit Prince Farmhouse Table Beer into the Old Tom gin barrels that previously held Jester King Viking Metal. Averie writes, "I originally wanted to put Le Petit Prince into the gin barrels...

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This Friday, August 24th at 4pm, we'll be releasing our 2018 batch of La Vie en Rose -- our farmhouse ale refermented with the the raspberries from Atrial Rubicite. This is our seventh batch of La Vie en Rose (time flies)! We'd say this year's batch has a bit more raspberry character than last year. It's 5.8% ABV, fully attenuated with mild funk and balanced acidity. It was packaged on July 18th, 2018.

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Last week, we had the pleasure of visiting and brewing with La Sirène brewery in Melbourne, Australia! We brewed two beers together -- a 100% spontaneously fermented beer with aged hops from the northern and southern hemispheres, and a hoppy farmhouse beer with cultures from Jester King, La Sirène and Wildlife Bakery.

We first met...

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The more time we spend as part of the beer industry, the more we realize it's all about community. Saint Arnold Brewing Co. founder Brock Wagner once said, "Beer is people." We couldn't agree more. Making something we love and getting to experiment with cool ingredients and techniques is a lot of fun, but it doesn't come close to the satisfaction we get from spending time with the wonderful people in our community. Frankly,...

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We planted a 3.5 acre vineyard earlier this year as part of our farming expansion. The goal of this vineyard is to source grapes for our beers from right here on the Jester King farm, and ultimately, to make natural wine.

Grape harvest season is in full swing here in Texas. The Jester King vineyard, however, still needs time to become established before we are willing to harvest our grapes. Instead, we chose to prepare the land and the...

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On Wednesday, we had the wonderful experience of brewing with Wildflower Brewing & Blending in Sydney, Australia! Wildflower was started in 2017 by our friend Topher Boehm, and focuses on things that are very close to our heart like mixed culture and spontaneous fermentation, farmhouse ales and barrel aging. We met Topher at Jester King back in 2014, then had him intern at our brewery a year later. It's...

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We are excited to announce that we are now opening the lottery for this year’s Atrial Rubicite Magnums! We decided last year to move to a lottery system for super-limited releases such as this. Starting today, Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm, you may enter the lottery for the chance to purchase an Atrial Rubicite magnum (1.5L). Please note that entering the lottery does not guarantee you a bottle.

Submissions open today at 7pm and close at...

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This Friday, at 4pm when the tasting room opens, we will be releasing our most recent blend of Das Wunderkind! Das Wunderkind is a blended saison which is made by blending old, barrel aged beer with young, dry hopped farmhouse ale. For this blend, we decided to dry hop with Simcoe hops.

This blend of Das Wunderkind has an ABV of 4.5%. It will be available by the glass and in bottles to go (750mL/$14) with no bottle limit. There are...

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Tomorrow at 4pm when our tasting room opens, we will be releasing our second batch of Vulgar Affectation. Vulgar Affectation is a farmhouse ale with Kapoor Holy Basil Flower and Chamomile. This beer is the exhibition of floral character in compliment to the unique nature of our mixed culture fermentation.

A note about the floral ingredients used for this year’s Vulgar Affectation from Jester King Brewer Allison Huffman, “for this...

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This Friday when our tasting room opens at 4pm, we’ll be releasing our 2018 Detritivore! Detritivore is made by taking the spent cherries used in Montmorency vs. Balaton and refermenting them a second time with a younger beer.

The inspiration for this beer comes from a beer made by Cantillon pre-Jean Van Roy in which they refermented the cherries initially used for their Kriek creating a new beer with a lighter cherry flavor. This...

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Earlier this month, our friend Brandon Ade of Blacklands Malt delivered us the first of the 2018 Texas barley crop! Brandon brought us several hundred pounds of Pale Moon two-row barley grown in Moore County near the Texas panhandle and malted in Leander, just north of Austin.

Being able to finally make beer with Texas malt is not something that has worn off on us. When we started in 2010, we...

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We’re very excited to announce that this Friday, July 27th at 4pm, we’ll be releasing a brand new beer refermented with Texas-grown Gala apples and aged in fresh Muscat wine barrels for over a year called Jester King Correlation!

This is the first time we've ever worked with apples. To be totally honest, we were a little nervous about the results being too sulphuric. But in late 2016, we came across some Gala apples...

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Last week we harvested tomatoes from our farm and used them for cooking at Stanley's. This was a mini-milestone for us. It was the first time we've ever harvested food from our farm and used it for cooking. All the tomatoes used as toppings on our pizza last weekend came from our farm.

For our first season, we planted 52 different species (mostly heirloom) with colorful...

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This Friday, we will be releasing our second batch of Cerveza Sin Frontera. This beer is a collaboration with Crooked Stave (Denver, CO) and Brasserie Trois Dames (Sainte-Croix, Switzerland).

For Batch 1, all three breweries brewed the same beer at their separate breweries, fermented that beer with their own mixed...

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We’re excited to announce that this Friday at 4pm, we will be releasing Deimos’ Companion – a farmhouse ale brewed with papalo and refermented with lime juice and zest. This beer is part of a collaboration with our friends and neighbors, Revolution Spirits, who distilled Phobos’ Companion – a spirit intended to be blended with Deimos’ Companion to create a beer cocktail. Both the...

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Today we're releasing our 2018 blend of Atrial Rubicite -- a barrel-aged, tart, fruit forward beer that took over a year to make. So we thought it would be fun to contrast it with a super-fresh batch of Le Petit Prince Farmhouse Table Beer!

Le Petit Prince is as simple as can be -- unfiltered well water from the Trinity, a small amount of Texas-grown barley and wheat (1.022 OG), and a substantial dose of Saaz hops relative to the size...

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This Friday, July 6th at 4pm, we're excited to release our 2018 batch of Atrial Rubicite (blend no. 8)!

Atrial Rubicite is our barrel-aged sour beer refermented with raspberries. For our 2018 blend, we racked 22 oak barrels of mature beer (about 1,320 gallons) onto 5,760 pounds of raspberries (4.4 pounds per gallon) in early April. After about six weeks of fruit refermentation, we packaged the beer and allowed it to...

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Another year comes along, and another independent craft brewery we highly respect and have worked with is purchased (in this case in part) by a giant, industrial behemoth. As Matthew Curtis recently wrote for Good Beer Hunting, "The Song Remains the Same." We're starting to expect and have become a...

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Fruit season continues! This Friday, we're releasing Omniscience & Proselytism -- our barrel aged sour beer refermented with Texas-grown strawberries from Marburger Farms and Engel Farms in Fredericksburg, TX! This is our fifth ever blend of O&P, as the beer has become known.

Strawberries are a tricky fruit to work with. For one,...

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This Friday, we'll be releasing our latest batch of Commercial Suicide Farmhouse Mild Ale. Commercial Suicide is inspired by the English tradition of low-alcohol, supremely drinkable ales with moderate bitterness, toasty/biscuity malt flavors, and interesting yeast character. It's a beer we've been slowly tweaking over the years in an effort to bring it closer to its classic counterpart.

We believe our latest batch is the closest we've...

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We're pleased to introduce Jester King Aurastone -- a beer brewed with a heavy amount of oats and spelt, refermented with peaches and apricots from 2016 分 桃 (Fēn Táo) and Aurelian Lure, aged in chardonnay and sauvignon blanc barrels for 18 months, and finished with powdered lime leaf and pink sea salt!

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We're very excited to announce that 2018 Montmorency vs. Balaton will be released this Friday, June 15th! Montmorency vs. Balaton is our barrel-aged sour beer refermented with both Montmorency and Balaton tart cherries from Michigan. This is our fifth ever blend or "bout"!

For this year's blend, we took about 960 gallons of mature barrel-aged beer and refermented it with 3,200 pounds of cherries (1,600 pounds each of...

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We're excited to announce that on Saturday, June 23rd from 12-5pm, we're teaming up with our dear friends Frederique Boudouani and Brian Bruening of Schera's Algerian-American in Elkader, Iowa and Abu Nawas Beverage Company to host the first ever Jester King SPON Day!

SPON Day will be a celebration of our 100%...

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This Friday, June 1st at 4pm, we’ll be releasing our second batch of Demitone. For Demitone, we brewed a young farmhouse ale with raw Texas Hill Country water and fermented it in stainless steel with our mixed culture of native yeast and bacteria. We then refermented that beer with the “spent” Texas-grown blueberries used in Colour 5. We find that the second refermentation of fruit creates a more subtle beer that still embodies the character...

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This Memorial Day weekend, we're releasing a very special beer that we've been working on for over three years. It's the very first SPON beer we added a specialty ingredient to (i.e. an ingredient other than water, grain or hops).

Back on a very cold day in February of 2015, our former Head Brewer Garrett Crowell decided to zest and juice a big bag of Texas grapefruit. He was fueled by Le Petit Prince grapefruit mimosas as he worked!...

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When our tasting room opens this Friday at 4pm, we'll release our latest blend of Boxer's Revenge -- Barrel-Aged Strong Ale. First brewed in September of 2010, Boxer’s Revenge was the first beer that we ever brewed here at Jester King! This release marks our 10th blend of Boxer’s Revenge.

Boxer’s Revenge was fermented with native Hill Country yeast and bacteria and then barrel-aged about a year. This batch was blended on April 12th,...

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Today at 4pm, we will be releasing Queen’s Order Batch 2. Queen’s Order is a farmhouse ale brewed with Texas Tallow honey and Texas-grown lemons.

For this year’s Queen’s Order, we used Tallow honey from Desert Creek Honey in Blue Ridge, Texas. This honey was quite funky and very floral in comparison to the Guajillo honey used in Batch 1. The lemons were sourced from Hernandez Farms in...

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We're very excited to announce that Jester King has purchased the remainder of Ceres Park Ranch, which is the place it has called home since 2010! The purchase includes 107 acres of land, the Ceres Park Ranch Event Center, and Stanley's Farmhouse Pizza.

The land purchase brings the total acreage owned by Jester King up to 165. We had previously purchased 58 acres in 2015. We're very happy that this land will not fall prey to...

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We just finished planting year two of our melon patch! Last year’s patch was experimental and about seeing what would grow out here in our little part of the Hill Country. This year, we expanded the patch fivefold by planting sixty, 100 foot rows (a full mile of melons) of cantaloupe and watermelon.

Two-thirds of the patch was planted with Passport, Scrumptious, Sugar Queen Hybrid, Super 45 Hybrid, Charentais, and Israel (Ha’ogen)...

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We are happy to announce that fruit refermentation season for 2018 season has arrived! This Friday, May 4th, we’ll be releasing our 2018 batch of Colour 5! Colour 5 is our barrel aged farmhouse ale refermented with Texas-grown blueberries from Echo Springs Farms in Murchison, Texas. It’s our first fruit refermentation release of 2018.

Colour Five was brewed with raw Hill Country well water, Texas-grown grains, a blend of fresh hops and...

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This Friday, we're very excited to release our first two barrel-aged blends of 2018 — RU55 and Funk Metal! Up until this point, all our barrel-aged releases in 2018 (like Abscission and Wanderflora) were blended last year.

RU55 is our barrel-aged sour red ale and Funk Metal is our barrel-aged sour stout. Both beers actually have a connection to the state of Michigan. RU55 is brewed in tribute to brewer Russ Beattie formerly of Dark...

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We are excited to introduce our newest release Sacred Vessel — a collaboration with Bruery Terreux. This is our third collaboration with Bruery Terreux (the others being Bouffon and Imperial Cabinet) but the first to be made here at Jester King. Sacred Vessel is a barrel-aged beer inspired by Greek Retsina wine with rosemary from the Jester King farm and refermented with foot-stomped Roussanne and...

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We have shared some of our homebrew recipes in the past. It’s about time we share more recipes with you. Here are six Jester King recipes you can brew yourself:

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This Friday, we will be releasing Batch 5 of Provenance Lemon & Lime. Used in this beer were 150 pounds of Texas Valley lemons from Hernandez Farms in Weslaco, TX and 150 pounds of limes from G and S Groves in McAllen, TX. The zest and juice were added during primary fermentation and allowed to ferment in our stainless steel tanks with our mixed culture of yeast and bacteria. We find that the vibrant flavors of the lemon and lime create...

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We’re pleased to announce Abscission — a collaboration with Scratch Brewing Co. in Ava, Illinois! Abscission is a 100% spontaneously fermented beer with grapevines, fallen leaves, spicebush, juniper branches, laurel and sassafras steeped overnight in the coolship as the wort chilled. It was brewed in February, 2016 when our wonderful friends Marika Josephson and Aaron Kleidon of Scratch rounded up a...

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