Creature Comforts Brewing - The Tree That Owns Itself 2021

The Tree That Owns Itself is a bourbon barrel-aged English-style Barleywine (13.7% ABV). We named this beer as a tribute to an admired landmark in our community of Athens, Ga. The story goes that the tree's owner, desiring to protect it, deeded ownership of the tree and surrounding land to itself. In honor of the local legend dating back to the 1800s, we brewed this Barleywine, which aged 23 months in Willet bourbon barrels. We set out to achieve a sublime expression of malt flavors, using a traditional English barley base, all English ingredients, a long boil, and extended maturation in select small batch bourbon barrels. The Tree That Owns itself is fruity, rich, decadent, and complex with rich caramel, molasses, toffee, and brown sugar notes.