We're excited to announce the release of our second-ever cider bottling!

Last fall, we received Arkansas Black apples grown in Arkansas, pressed them in-house at Jester King, and fermented the juice in stainless steel with our mixed culture. We aged the cider in stainless for seven months, then bottle conditioned for another two months. The result is dry, tart, crisp, effervescent, and refreshing with bright apple and fermentation flavors and aromas. 6.9% abv.

Purchase a glass or bottles to go (750ml/$28) today. Available for pickup here. We have about 950 bottles available. 11 bottle limit per person. Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas.

Photo by Regan Vaca. Artwork by Joshua Cockrell.

We're very excited to release our third wine from the 2021 grape harvest — our 2021 Red Blend. 2021 Red Blend is part of our Have We Met? series of wines. It features Texas-grown Black Spanish, Merlot, and Syrah grapes from Sulphur Bluff, Texas east of Dallas.

The grapes were harvested in August of 2021, crushed, and fermented in stainless steel at Jester King with the same mixed culture we use to ferment our farmhouse ales. We then sent the wine to neutral oak barrels for nine months. This June, we blended and bottled without the addition of sulphites. Our 2021 Red Blend is just grapes and our mixed culture. 9.7% abv. We hope you enjoy this authentically Texas wine from Jester King!

Get a glass or purchase bottles to go (750ml/$28) today. Available for pickup here. We have about 600 bottles available. 11 bottle limit per person. Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas.

Artwork by Joshua Cockrell. Photo by Regan Vaca.

We're excited to announce the release of Afield — our 2021 Cinsaut wine made in collaboration with our friends at Field Recordings Winery in Paso Robles, California, and American Solera Brewery in Tulsa, Oklahoma!

For Afield, we took 100% 2021 Cinsaut grapes grown in the California Central Coast and had them undergo carbonic maceration (fermenting the grapes from the inside out using natural CO2 pressure). Interestingly, the carbonic maceration took place in transit! The grapes were sealed upon shipment to Texas, and spontaneously fermented during their journey in the presence of native yeast. After we received the grapes at Jester King, we pressed them and racked the wine to neutral oak for about four months. We then blended and bottled without the addition of any sulfites or other preservatives. Afield is just Cinsaut grapes and native yeast, nothing else. 8.8% abv.

Thank you to Field Recordings and American Solera for working this us! Both our industry friends we greatly respect, admire, and draw inspiration from.

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We're very excited to release our first wine from last year's Texas grape harvest — Jester King 2021 Blanc du Bois! Our 2021 Blanc du Bois is made from 100% Blanc du Bois grapes grown in Sulphur Bluff, east of Dallas. We received the grapes last August and fermented on skins for about a month, yielding an orange wine. Fermentation was started by pitching our mixed culture — the same one we use to ferment our farmhouse beer. We then pressed the grapes and aged the wine in neutral oak barrels for about five months. Finally, we blended and bottled without the addition of any sulfites or other preservatives. Our 2021 Blanc du Bois is just grapes and our mixed culture — nothing else added or removed.

We love the fruity, tropical character of Blanc du Bois and have been using it for years in our beer. We're really excited to have finally made wine with it. Blanc du Bois is a hybrid grape developed in Florida. It does well in our hot Texas climate and is resistant to Pierce's Disease. By no means a sparkling wine, expect a little bit of natural carbonation in the bottle through...

We're excited to release this year's batch of Jester King Blueberry Wine! This wine is 100% blueberries fermented with our house mixed culture. We don't add anything else but blueberries and yeast.

After the crush, we did primary fermentation in stainless steel, then pressed and racked to neutral oak for six months. We blended and packaged the wine still. 7.9% abv.

This year, the blueberries came from Michigan instead of Texas. The 2021 Texas freeze severely reduced the quantity of blueberries we were able to get from Texas growers. The Texas-grown ones we were able to get went to Colour Five and Recented, our collaboration with Pinthouse. We hope you enjoy our latest wine from Jester King! More to come...

Head to the brewery starting April 12, 2022 to get a glass or purchase bottles to go (750ml/$30) onsite in the Jester King shop. We have about 400 bottles available. 11 bottle limit per person. Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas.

Artwork by Joshua Cockrell. Photo by Jess Attie.

Our first wine release of the new year is here — Jester King 2022 Sparkling Cherry Wine!

Our Sparkling Cherry Wine is a blend of 50% Balaton and 50% Montmorency cherries from Michigan. We fermented the cherries with our house mixed culture last May, then aged the wine in oak barrels for seven months. We then naturally conditioned the wine through refermentation in the bottle. No additives, preservatives, adjunct ingredients, or anything else. Just fruit, yeast, and time. 5.5% abv.

This cherry wine is a lot of fun. Despite the very simple process, the flavors and aromatics leap out of the glass. We got bold aromas of cherry pie and marzipan. It finished around zero Plato, so it's fully fermented and dry. We hope you enjoy the first Jester King wine of 2022. More to come!

Head to the brewery this week to get a glass or purchase bottles to go (750ml/$24) onsite in the Jester King shop. Also available to-go here: https://bit.ly/3sGkaUg. We have about 450 bottles available. 11 bottle limit per person. Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas.

Art by Joshua Cockrell....

We're very excited to introduce our first-ever cider! Jester King Farmhouse Cider is a mixed fermentation cider made from 100% Texas-grown apples!

Last October, we received Red Cortland, Winesap, and Arkansas Black apples from Sweet Ruthie's River Ranch in Canadian, Texas (Texas panhandle). Our team juiced the apples in-house at Jester King. We pitched the juice with our mixed culture -- the same one used to ferment our farmhouse ales -- and fermented to total dryness in stainless steel. We then naturally conditioned the cider in 750ml bottles. No additives or sulfites. Our process was remarkably simple so as to feature the character of the Texas apples and the complexity of mixed culture fermentation with native yeast and bacteria. 8.0% abv.

We get notes of yellow plum, cinnamon sugar, muscat grapes, golden raisins, honeydew melons, and lemon meringue.

Jester King Farmhouse Cider is now available at Jester King! Because of the low bottle count (384 bottles), we're limiting Farmhouse Cider to onsite drinking only...