Great Farmhouse Exploration
The Great Farmhouse Exploration is back for it’s second year taking place over the 1-5 May across 30 hand-picked locations. Beer venues Duration know and trust to showcase our love of classic European farmhouse styles.
Come and enjoy some crisp, balanced and delicious beers to make new discoveries on your beer journey. Each venues will pour an individual, hand picked line up of 8 beers and all events free to attend.
The Great Farmhouse Exploration will showcase 4 new farmhouse beers: a Lemon + Thyme Grisette and Raspberry Gose, a Continental Pale and a Lime Wheat Beer alongside some crisp lagers, juicy pales, a Lambic-style sour and a wild card choice.
We’ve worked hard developing our beers using the best ingredients and honing our recipes to make the beers the very best examples of the style they can be. You can’t hurry when it comes to beer making and The Great Farmhouse Exploration is the results of several months if not years of dedication to our craft.
A Great Farmhouse Exploration Beer Bundle will be on the Duration webshop from Friday 25th April – but we highly recommend making it out to enjoying the beers at a venue near you. Read on to see the list of participating venues and the beers pouring.
BEER LIST
Each venue will pour a hand curated line up of 8 beers. These will include at least 3 our special farmhouse releases, a Lager, a Lambic-Style Sour, a Pale Ale, our award-winning flagship IPA Turtles All The Way Down. Plus one Wild Card choice!
See what could be pouring at a venue near you below (*denotes award-winners).
FARMHOUSE OPTIONS
Farmhand 4.5% Continental Pale
Nicely effervescent to quench a well earned thirst with Waimea hops bringing lime and pine, Mandarina Bavaria and Saphir lend old world charm and a hint of tangerine.
Lekkerding 3.8% Lemon + Thyme Grisette
Grisettes are rustic, elegant, low-strength pale ales. Often overlooked for hoppier styles yet utterly delicious. Typically crisp, dry and refreshing with a light lilt of spice or tartness.
Sorbetto 4.2% Raspberry Gose
A gently tart and ever so lightly saline light bodied German style beer. Raspberry and Lemon added for a blush of colour and a burst of fruitiness. The perfect palette cleanse.
Frisbee 4.4% Lime Wheat Beer
Motueka hops from New Zealand bring vibrant fresh lime notes. We added lime peel to compliment the tropical notes. An energetic wheat beer that is lyrical and full of agility and flex.
LAGER OPTIONS
*Doses 5.2% German Pilsner – Crisp, dry and delicious a straight up German Pilsner
*Cuttin’ Grass 4.5% Italian Pilsner – Zippy lemony crowd pleaser – punchy on the hops yet only 4.5%
*Good Times 4.2% American Light Lager – A sprightly and malt sweet session beer to let the good times roll
LAMBIC STYLE | MIXED FERMENTATION SOUR OPTIONS
*Fold + Fly 5.1% Foeder Aged Lager (Balance Collab) – Cold conditioned in a lightly steamed American oak foeder for 5 months. A farmyard lager with subtle brett character.
Oak + Jay – 6% Biere De Miel (Honey Beer) – A beer 2.5 years in the making that truly reflects our landscape. Local honey brings sweet chestnut and orange.
Vermillion Sky – 8.4% Dark Cherry Sour – Aged in a charred oak foeder for 3 years. Dark malts, cherries and vanilla meld over time resulting in toasted oak, rounded richness and balanced tartness.
CORE IPA / PALE OPTIONS
*Turtles All The Way Down 5.5% IPA – A deliciously juicy IPA with soft bitterness and a wonderfully tropical taste. Made with great balance for year-round easy refreshment
Another Day Done 4.4% Juicy Pale – Ajuicy and crisp pale ale with tropical and fruit aromas, soft bitterness and a refreshingly dry citrus finish.
Sweeping Coast 4.8% West Coast Pale – Clean and bright, this West Coast pale has a dry pallet to let the classic American hops shine through with Mosaic, Azacca, Simcoe hops.
Where The Buffalo Roam 5.2% Pale Ale – A bold, hazy pale ale t with vibrant citrus and passionfruit notes. Krush hops lay down a juicy foundation, while Nelson Sauvin introduces savoury, grape-like complexity, and Simcoe contributes earthy citrus with hints of pineapple.
WILD CARD OPTIONS
This could be anything from a cask special or one of our new collaborations
Altiplano 5.2% American Pale Ale (Two Flints Collab) – Nectaron hops burst with bold pineapple and nectarine. Simcoe and Mosaic add herbal citrus notes and subtle dankness. We added Quinoa for light nuttiness and a pillowy soft texture.
Crisps 4.6% XXPA (Five Points Collab) – A beer that pairs perfectly with crisps. Lager and pale malts with flaked rice keep it light and snappy, while Riwaka and Nelson Sauvin hops bring lime zest and white grape. A touch of MSG—like in crisps—amplifies the flavour and makes the hops pop.
Tmavé Pivo 4.4% Czech Dark Lager (Lost + Grounded Collab) – Our Czech Dark Beer brewed with Bristol legends Lost & Grounded pours a beautiful mahogany colour with rich, dark malts bringing deep notes of toast and coffee, finishing crisp and clean with a snappy pop of bitterness.
Grasshopper 4.4% Simcoe + Citra Pale (Cask Special) – Grasshopper is a bright and expressive Pale Ale that springs forth with tangy lime and juicy peach jumping out from Simcoe and Citra hops. Hints of spruce and citrus zest. Fresh, vibrant and effortlessly drinkable. This one’s made for sunny days and easy pints.
Saddle 4.8% West Coast Pale (Cask Special) – Saddle is Duration’s first ever West Coast in cask. Blending Amarillo’s orange and floral tones, Simcoe’s captivating tropical and resin notes and Citra for some zesty pop. All set upon a clean malt canvas, culminating in a crisp, refreshing finish and bitter bite that amplifies the hops.
Trampoline 4.4% Pale Ale (Cask Special) – Springboard into a delicious blend of stone fruits and citrus with a pop of pine from Azacca and Citra hops. Mosaic adds juicy berry notes to this soft and zesty pale. Catapult your way into summer and add some spring to your step with Trampoline.
Order the Great Farmhouse Exploration Beer Bundle (from 25 April) HERE
Click the map to see what venue is pouring them near you HERE
Scroll through to see a little more on each beer in the photo gallery below. Please check with the venue you are planning on attending to confirm which beers they will have on.
LAGER BEER
We have been dedicated to lager since we opened, in fact our brewhouse was designed and fabricated in Germany where they understand technically speaking how hard lager is as a style to produce. We have made helles, bocks, rice lagers, kolsches, corn lagers and even a jasmine and basil lager over the years. For this event we are showcasing our most loved sessionable lagers in an American Light Lager, an Italian Pilsner and a German Pilsner – all using noble hops.
BELGIAN SESSION BEERS
But that’s not all, we will also have some sessionable Belgian beers in the mix to show you just how approachable, simple and elegant a well made Belgian style beer can be. Often overloooked for a mis-association of being spicy or obtuse (no quads or tripels in this line up) these farmhand everyday styles like grisettes, goses or wheats in our view are utterly delicious, fully approachable and well worth a revisit. We promise nothing too out there all our fresh beers are designed to be ‘pintable’ and balanced. On offer will be a Lemon + Thyme Grisette a small Belgian table beer, a Classic Wit, and a Raspberry Gose.
LAMBIC-STYLE SOURS
Then for the fully adventurous we have the lambic-style portion of our line up with some mixed fermentation, entirely spontaneous fermented beers (meaning no yeast was pitched and fermentation was achieved solely through wild local cultures present in the air and in the barrel the beer went into). These beers that take months if not years to create and are definitely sip and savour beers. For this event we have teamed up with Balance Brewing + Blending and some local Beer Keepers and have an incredibly special Dark Cherry Sour to share too!
BEER DU JOUR
We of course know Lagers, Lambics and Belgians need a little more dedication so to play to the crowd, we have given each venue the option to pick some Pales/IPAs from our fresh everyday range (in cask too). Modern, hazy, juicy numbers loaded with American tropical hops we all can’t get enough of at the moment – Turtles our flagship IPA (Mosaic and Hallertau Blanc) will be pouring at all venues alongside a few new specials.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE WILD STUFF?
At Duration we have a dedicated barrel store where we house our coolship (a vessel that helps us innoculate the beer with local cultures), some foeders (large oak barrels more often seen in wine making) where we rest the beer to impart some of the oak into it and where we keep a culture of multiple yeast (bretty, more wild and complex) to sour the beer.
We call the beers we make in this project our Fermata Range – it’s a musical term that means to slow or prolong a note, after all Duration is the distance between two notes musically speaking.
We take things slow, aging on wood or fruit additions, spontaneous or mixed fermenting our beers and evenblending them to taste. Often tart, usually dry and with a curious undulating sensation these beer express themselves with a bit more carbonation and lot more depth and complexity. They ripple and flavours emerge in waves and undulate across the tongue. If you sip and savour these beers a lot can be revealed, compared to a big hearty chug you can give a fresh session beer.
