When Peter Bouckaert, founder of Purpose Brewing and former brewmaster of New Belgium, calls you on a random Thursday afternoon in October and says you need to drive into St. Louis and go to Side Project immediately, but he won’t tell you why, what are you going to do?
Yeah. I went.
What I saw there was the arrival and fire-branding of the so-called “rarest barrel,” pH1, a 30-year-old French oak barrel that has seen some miles.