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The Red Messenger

Reaver Beach

Wild – 7% ABV


Red Messenger was 100 percent fermented in oak barrels using a mixed-culture fermentation. This mixed culture includes farmhouse ale yeast, brettanomyces, and a culture of wild yeast and souring bacteria native to Coastal Virginia. Every wild/sour beer we make will include this native culture in fermentation. While we could source laboratory cultures for souring purposes, we feel it’s important to ground our wild beers in the local environment and give them complexity that only a truly “wild” culture can provide. Our philosophy is that to create genuinely wild beers, we must harness the environment and allow nature to imbue a sense of place into them. In this way, we are creating something unique and something that cannot be exactly replicated elsewhere.

Where to get it

Not currently available in Richmond

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