This beer started out as an experiment to see what would happen if
you aged a regular strength pale beer in fairly expressive oak
barrels. Fermented out with a saison yeast in primary this beer then
spent 4 months in an American oak (4 Roses Bourbon) barrel before Wilderness racked it into a French oak barrel (ex pinot) for another 14 months.
Finally they dry hopped the beer with HBC-472 - an experimental hop variety that has oak/bourbon/vanilla notes.