The Referend's Tenth Anniversary

About this event

The Tenth Anniversary party features: -Two bars (Barn Bar & Cellar Bar) pouring 20+ beers -Special bottle release, including one ten-year-old beer -Commemorative Riedel stemless glass -Hourly “txotx” cask tapping -Complimentary madeleines -Neapolitan pizza and more from Pizza Plant -Natural Wine from Therein Wine -Ceremonial Barrel Burning (weather permitting) -Many of your favorite Referend Emeriti -DJ Flexatone on the Barn Stage

Tenth Anniversary Bottle Release

Intention was brewed in May 2016, our first brewing season. The wort spontaneously fermented in neutral French oak puncheons for twenty-eight months before racking to two separate stainless casks: one with hand-destemmed 2018 harvest NJ Chardonnay grapes, one without. The beer was racked off of grapes after three years and topped for safe passage from NJ to PA. After ten years, 124 months after being brewed, the two casks were blended and bottled under still cork and wax. 6.8% alc/vol

"But must bring to the meeting the maturest, The longest-saved-up, raciest, localest We have strength of reserve in us to bring." -Robert Frost

Inner Mounting Flame was brewed in November 2021, our first ever house-brewed wort on our barn brewhouse. Local floor-malted pilsner malt, raw wheat, and aged hops, turbid mashed, long boiled, coolship-cooled and -inoculated, and spontaneously fermented in neutral oak puncheons in our bankbarn cellar for 43 months. Refermented in the bottle with local honey, bottled Jun. 22, 2025. 12% alc/vol

Le Différend Grand Cru was brewed in early 2022 with local floor-malted pilsner malt, raw wheat, and aged hops, turbid mashed, long boiled, coolship-cooled and -inoculated, and spontaneously fermented in Stagg bourbon barrels for three years. Blended and refermented in the bottle with local honeysuckle honey. Bottled Mar. 15, 2025. 8.8% alc/vol

“Silence, cooked like gold, in charred hands.” -Paul Celan

From The Referend Bier Blendery