Floodland Brewing FAQ
Last updated 09/23/2018

>> Do you have a taproom?
We are focused on putting out bottled beer and there are no short term plans to have a taproom.

>> How do I get your beer?
We sell bottles through online public sales and through Oakworks, our bottle club. The 2018 membership is full. If you register at https://floodlandbrewing.vinespring.com/register you will be signed up for the reserve list, which acts as both the wait list for Oakworks, as well as the list to which I'll send first notifications of public bottles for sale. Public bottle sales are usually every 4 months or so for online sale and in person pickup.

>> How can I check to make sure I'm on the reserve list?
If you have a login here you are all set. https://floodlandbrewing.vinespring.com/account#login

>> How do I make sure I see the sales offers? I signed up for the mailing list but I haven't gotten any emails, what's wrong?

Your emails may get filtered to spam. You can search for how to add the email "info at floodland brewing dot com" to your contacts to avoid that happening based on your email provider. If you are using the gmail inbox categories/tabs and the emails are going to promotions, you can help train it by dragging emails from Floodland to your Primary tab. That goes for any emails you want to see. Additionally, you can add the info _at_ floodland brewing dot com email to your contacts. To do this, go to the Oakworks email, hover over or click on the email avatar to the left of the from name "Floodland Brewing" which will give you a little pop-up, then click "contact info" and then on the next page click "Add to My Contacts" at the top.

The archive of news emails is here:
https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=407b088ec2a9ffaea61021197&id=dfb348882a

>> How do I find out about _____?
Floodland has an active instagram (@floodlandbrewing) that is a good source of information. The best way to get general news and information is to sign up for the mailing list on floodlandbrewing.com. There are also Floodland threads on TalkBeer and BA that I respond to questions on.

>> Are You a Sour Beer Brewery? Are You a Farmhouse Brewery?
We have used the term "mixed culture" a lot to describe our beers in the past because we're not just using single strain, lab isolated yeasts. We also do not have a single "house culture" and instead work with a variety of strains and cultures so that we can create beers with varying fermentation characters.

Some of our beers are fermented with a wild culture which was taken from a coolship fermentation on a Seattle porch in early 2016 and then repitched into barrels starting in 2017 without being lab isolated or banked. Some of our beers are inoculated in a coolship. We also have a “saison” mixed culture which was taken from a variety of appropriated strains which were mostly harvested and propagated in house. This culture started with four primary saccharomyces yeast strains from farmhouse/saison origins, and a brettanomyces strain and has evolved through open fermentation and repitching.

Many of our saisons spend time in our open oak tank. In this tank the beer undergoes a primary fermentation completely open to the air in the barrel cellar, which allows for ambient/native yeast and bacteria to make their way into the culture. We in most cases temper and inhibit the production of acid in our beers with hops, which was always the tradition in English and Belgian beers prior the advent of sterile tanks and cultured yeast isolates. So although we use cultures that include bacteria, in this case "mixed culture" is a literal way to describe our fermentation, not always a euphemism for "sour." All of that said, many of our beers are acidic to some degree.

We brew in a somewhat rustic manner with no refrigeration, and our beers are refermented and conditioned in the bottle and keg as opposed to being force carbonated. Bottle conditioning is a lengthy process for our beers, but we believe that it is worth the effort and patience. That final refermentation in the bottle adds a lot of character to the beer and extends the ability of the beer to age gracefully. Additionally, we use only whole fruit for our fruit refermentations, which we source from local farms. At Floodland we enjoy dry, pale, and well conditioned beers with balanced acidity, and we brew what we like to drink.


>> What is Field Blend?
http://www.floodlandbrewing.com/fieldblend.html

>> When was this beer bottled/released?
We mark fruited beers based on harvest year and saisons/unfruited beers based on the release year. Because of our lengthy bottle conditioning, this means most fruit beers are released in the year following the fruit harvest. There is a log of bottles which have been released with packaging dates: http://www.floodlandbrewing.com/bottles.txt


This link to the 12/22/2017 Floodland news email covers answers to some other questions:
http://eepurl.com/dftE-P

>> Why is your website text?
IDGAF