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Wunderkammer Bier | Volume Two – Bufo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ale brewed with lichen, mushrooms, some sticks and leaves, as well as other typical materials.\u00a0 Fermented in an oak barrel.
\n375ml | $9.99<\/p>\n

From brewer\/owner Vasili:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

What is a Wunderkammer?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The word roughly translates into ‘curiosity cabinet’ in German, and describes a contained collection of art, artifacts and specimens. It was like a personal museum for fascinating objects from nature, human history or other endeavor. This is where the aesthetic of the natural history museums and art galleries originated.<\/p>\n

Why Wunderkammer?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Like it’s namesake, I attempt to bring together a collection of beers that is based on my curiosity and fascination with the world. Like our experience in the world, each beer is a one time only event, produced in small batches.<\/p>\n

My goal?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Create great beers that are unique experiences. Collaborate with friends. Go on walks and see stuff. Grow a garden full of things. Have fun and be creative.<\/p>\n

Volume two,\u00a0bufo<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The word is from the Latin name for all amphibians in the toad family (Bufonidae) ‘true toads’. I chose this name after the small toads I see hopping around in lawns and forests, blending in with the pinecones and dried leaves until they have to jump out from underfoot!<\/p>\n

My goal was to make a beer that tasted like a Fall walk in the woods; chilly but bright, rich and earthy, dry and delicate.<\/p>\n

I picked reindeer lichen and turkey tail mushrooms from woods around my house and other well trod paths, and mashed and boiled them with a light smoked amber wheat base. For beer-geek points, I made a base beer loosely based on Gratzer, a defunct Polish smokey, sour style of wheat beer.<\/p>\n

Tasting Notes<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n