Dear Taproom Friend & Baird Beer Enthusiast:

November is the month for the annual release of a monster Baird Big Beer Seasonal brew — West Coast Wheat Wine.

Stylistically, Barley Wine is the granddaddy of all beers in terms of gravity and alcohol strength. Wheat Wine is an unique American west coast interpretation of the British born Barley Wine style. Legend has it that the Wheat Wine style, in which wheat replaces barley as the chief base-malt ingredient, was conceived and first brewed at a small brewery-pub in Sacramento California. We brew Baird West Coast Wheat Wine in homage to the irreverent creativity that forms the rock-solid foundation of craft brewing in the United States.

West Coast Wheat Wine is a huge beer in terms of alcohol strength (approximately 10.5% by volume). 60 percent of the fermentable extract is derived from malted wheat and this lends a quenching drinkability rare to beers of this strength. The hops are 100% American west coast types that are bold and citrusy in character.

In the glass, Baird West Coast Wheat Wine is a deep copper-gold color and sports a very tight, creamy-white head. The nose is piquantly complex -? we detect notes of pears, plums, raisins and the ominous foreboding of alcohol. In the mouth, you will experience a panoply of sweetish honeyed-fruit flavors that are washed clean by a robust hop bitterness and a hot alcohol finish.

West Coast Wheat Wine will be poured from The Taproom taps beginning Thursday, November 18. It will be available only by the glass. You will feel the first one; you will be happily buzzed by the second, you will be crawling out of here by the third (so please don’t even think about driving!).

Cheers,
Baird Brewing Company & Fishmarket Taproom