Wildflower Brewing & Blending - Perpetual Desire 2024

Perpetual Desire 2024 is a blend of two ales aged with organic rhubarb, Morello cherries and Ruby Red grapefruit. The first ale was brewed entirely with organic barley in December 2021 and allowed to ferment only with yeast and bacteria present in this summertime coolship inoculation and aged for 1.5 years in puncheon until it was macerated with 1,000kg of organic rhubarb stalks from Moonacres Farm. The second ale was brewed with organic red wheat and organic heritage barley wholly fermented by a diversity of yeasts and bacteria collected from native flowers from NSW and macerated with Morello cherries from Thornbrook Orchard. These two were blended, with only a small portion of the blend coming from the cherry ale, and together were macerated with fresh Ruby Red grapefruit wheels before bottling. It was allowed to naturally condition and carbonate in bottle before release. Made exclusively for The Collective. The label for Perpetual Desire was made by Topher's wife Bernadette using seaweed collected in the Sydney Harbour pressed and dried against watercolour paints.