Laissez Faire ‘23 - Wine Barrel Aged Brett Ale
Green Grape • Apricot • Lucious • 7.4% abv
Our third vintage, aged in William Chris Vineyards Sangiovese barrels.
Le Saison — French-Style Saison
Fruity • Dry • Spice • 6.5% abv
Vista’s house saison is a French-style modelled after the classic ales of Wallonia. This brew pours a rich golden color with a frothy white head and a slight haze. The aroma is tropical fruit, banana, clove, white pepper and honey.
The first sip gives you classic saison flavors of bready malt, honey and white pepper. The beer is dry with a full mouthfeel, with a good amount of ester and spiciness.
Twilight — Barrel Aged Brown Ale
Oak • Toffee • Dark Dried Fruit • 10.4% abv
Pours a soft brown color with aromas of caramel and spices. Mild acidity with a medium body hold flavors of oak, toffee and dark, dried fruit.
Glen Rose — Lambic Style Ale
Wine Barrel Aged • Dark Fruit • Leather • Red Wine • Vanilla • Oak • 6.5% abv
Pleasantly sour with hints of dark fruit and leather. Golden in color, with notes of red wine, vanilla and oak from the freshly-emptied wine barrels.
We draw all of our water at Vista from the Trinity Aquifer, 450 feet below the surface. Glen Rose is just one of the formations that make up this aquifer, providing us with beautiful, mineral-rich water.
This farmhouse-style ale showcases Vista’s water and pays homage to the styles of the Senne Valley of Belgium. A blend of six cultures produces a mildly tart ale that will cellar well for years to come.
Laissez — Brett Ale with Cab Sauv
Oenobeer Wine-Beer Hybrid • Tart • Red Grape • Mineral • 7.4% abv
This single strain Brett ale is tart and full-bodied with a beautiful pink hue and fruit notes of red grape, berry and apple with a slight acidity and minerality. Brett forward with vanilla and tannins from the red wine barrels.
Made with Texas-grown and malted American pilsner malt and unmalted wheat from Black lands Malt, house-aged whole cone hops, and Vista’s own limestone-filtered well water.
It spent 12 months in freshly-emptied, 100% Touriga Nacional red wine barrels from Lewis Wines with a Brettanomyces Trois yeast strain
Grato — Lambic Style Ale with Italian Plums
Wine Barrel Aged W/ Fruit • Stone Fruit • Tart • Earthy • 8.5 % abv
This fruit-forward and lightly tart wine barrel-aged ale is our Texas tribute to a traditional style, with the terroir of freshly-dumped local wine barrels and local grain.
Ripe plum on the nose with pleasingly tart dried fruit flavors. Medium bodied and earthy with a dry finish.
We began with 100% grown and malted Texas grain, Vista well water and house-aged hops. The beer fermented with a blend of yeast and bacteria, plus a heavy dose of Italian plums for over 12 months in Cabernet Sauvignon barrels from William Chris Vineyards.
Middle Trinity -Belgian-Style Tripel
Spice • Toasted Caramel • 9.6% abv
Pours with a faint haze and a snow-white head. Inviting, mellow spiciness and clean vanilla malty notes make way for appropriate pear and green fruit with honeysuckle-like floral aromas. Beware, the 9.5% abv is almost undetectable.
Bliss - Barrel Aged Wild Ale w/ Plums
Stone Fruit • Tannin • Grapefruit • 7.4% abv
Bliss is a mixed-culture, fruit-forward ale which begins with 100% Texas grown malts, house-aged hops and water from Vista’s aquifer-fed well. This Belgian golden ale, along with loads of plums, spent 12 months in neutral French oak barrels.