Temporal Artisan Ales Eternal Return (2021) Third Anniversary Blend

A celebratory 5.0% blend of four beers aged in oak barrels for 20, 28, and 36 months, created to celebrate Temporal's third anniversary.

The blend is 42% three-year-old beer from two barrels, including a bourbon barrel that brought a beautiful wood character, elevating the entire composition to the next level. The other three-year-old barrel had almost no acidity but a very strong level of brett-derived funk, making it an ideal partner for the bourbon cask.

Rounding out the blend is 21% from an "acid barrel" - filled in September 2018, featuring a very strong lactic acidity (super lemony and tart).

Finally, the youngest portion of the blend was from a barrel filled in May 2019, balanced in terms of acidity and flavour but lacking some of the complexity the older barrels bring to the blend.