About Us
Local Beer in Wake Forest, NC
Blackbird Brewery Beer
We at Blackbird Brewery understand that craft beer is no mere beverage. Each drop, each pint, is a form of history, anthropology and sociology. We are students and teachers of the culture and process of brewing. We do not just deal in tanks or barrels or kegs, but in magic and transformation—of our art, craft and chemistry—by every subtle aroma, each fleeting moment.
We explore flavor development through challenging and lesser used traditional techniques combined with the newest discoveries and ingredients we can find. Our highly customized 7bbl brewhouse houses an automated mash mixer and decoction capabilities giving us more control over recipe variables and the ability to process local non-malted grains. We also squeezed in tank designs for adjuncts, fruit, high hop loads, massive malt loads, and natural carbonation in horizontal tanks. This means authentic European styles, expressive IPAs, tart fruit beers, barrel aged stouts and barleywines. Read on to see what local beers we are brewing!
In addition we offer prosecco and cider on draft, fine wines by the glass, and an assortment of non-alcoholic drinks. Making a trip here for something particular? We do our very best to keep the beer page updated but it’s always best to check our live inventory before traveling.
Looking for our distribution page? Visit our Wholesale Requests page to submit your request for distribution within the Triangle Area.
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Even thrill seekers like Bodhi need a beer break once in a while. This one uses Citra and Ahhhroma hops for a bright lemony grapefruit citrus vibe with a supportive dank and resinous undertone from Mosaic. You could jump out of a perfectly good airplane, but it would be a lot easier enjoying a well executed West Coast IPA like this one. Utah, get me two!
- Style: West Coast IPA
- ABV: 6.8
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When you’re out shreddin’ waves this summer and you find the best barrels ever, you just drop in and WAPAH, get so pitted! Then you wash down that salt water with some freshy West Coast IPA like this one. Citra, Simcoe, and Riwaka kicked up some pungent and classic hop character on a dry and crisp malt base.
- Style: West Coast IPA
- ABV: 6.8
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![Birdopramen](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Birdopramen-1024x778.png)
A special type of pilsner packed with flavor from a lengthy brewing process. Czech Prostejov malt was triple decoction mashed for five hours, a complicated old world brewing process where a portion of mash is separated, boiled and returned to the main mash to hit 5 enzymatic temperature zones. It’s then hopped with huge additions of Saaz and Kazbek, fermented cold and slow and matured in a horizontal tank for rustic nuance and natural carbonation.
- Style: Czech Pilsner
- ABV: 5.0
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![Pre-Pro Prohibition Lager](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Pre-Pro-Prohibition-Lager-1024x958.png)
To celebrate American independence we put together a crisp refreshing lager featuring 100% local ingredients sourced from small, independent businesses. Asheville’s Riverbend Malt House supplied Cumberland corn from Tennessee which we cereal mashed and then combined with their Avalon barley grown in Virginia. It’s then hopped with New York grown Perle, cold fermented and lagered.
- Style: Pre-Prohibition Lager
- ABV: 4.9
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![They Kilt It Scottish-style Amber Ale](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/They-Kilt-It-1024x936.jpg)
This one’s designed to showcase some quality kilned malts. We put together five crystal malts from England and Belgium for their caramel and dark fruit flavors and threw in a couple toasted malts too. We did a rough and dirty step mash with a single decoction to get a saturated depth to the flavor with a good amount of sweetness and then gave it a cold and neutral fermentation to let the malts shine.
- Style: Scottish-style Amber Ale
- ABV: 6.7
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![Pay the Man Hazy IPA](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Pay-the-Man-981x1024.png)
The third in our series of slightly drier hazies with Vermont yeast. We Paid The Man and kept tweaking the body and haze level to get it closer to our vision. We’re particularly fond of the Simcoe we’ve found lately so we decided to go 100% Simcoe for this one. Do the work and get er done!
- Style: Hazy IPA
- ABV: 6.8
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![Fanum Tax - English Porter](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Fanum-Tax-English-Porter-1024x792.png)
Taxes are intertwined with beer history in the UK, but that’s history. It’s 2024 and you’re so fanum tax. We made this soft little roasty porter and kept it low gravity so you can stick out your gyatt and show off your rizz all night long without getting skibidi. Plus you’ll look so sigma with a mug of this in hand.
- Style: English Porter
- ABV: 4.4
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![There Is No Spoon - Hazy IPA](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/There-Is-No-Spoon-Hazy-IPA-827x1024.jpg)
Hazy IPA hopped with Neomexicanus Talus and HBC 586 for peachy coconut vibes. This one’s dedicated to everyone who has ever tried to stare at something hard enough to make it move. Remember, you must only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Then you will see it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
- Style: Hazy IPA
- ABV: 8.0
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![Walkabout Creek - West Coast Aussie Pale Ale](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Walkabout-Creek-West-Coast-Aussie-Pale-Ale-1013x1024.jpg)
If I give my beer to you then I’ll have none and you’ll have two. We decided to bring the Down Under to Wake Forest with this single decoction mashed Pale Ale brewed with Daybreak yeast, a hazy IPA strain with the haze tendencies removed to bring some new character to clear West Coasts. Hopped with dank and piney Australian grown Vic Secret and Strata.
- Style: West Coast Aussie Pale Ale
- ABV: 5.6
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This is the base beer for “Gave Me Cookie, Got You Cookie Spiced Brown Ale”. We decided to save
some base from this year’s batch for the traditionalists who just want a solid English brown ale without
added flavoring. It’s brimming with a beautiful chocolatey toasted nutty flavor that’s light and easy on the
palate.
- Style: Brown Ale
- ABV: 5.0
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Part of our staff beer series where each team member gets a chance to choose a beer style and spend a day creating it themselves on the brewhouse! This one is Rishi’s turn! He brewed a Russian Imperial Stout with Harmony and Ian. The recipe is a throwback to early 2000’s Imperial Stouts when roast and hop bitterness were prized traits that mingled beautifully on a high ABV malt base and are less sweet than the flavored imperial stouts of today. Brewed with a good dose of roasted barley and features a notable hop aroma and firm bitterness from Cascade, Nugget and Simcoe hops.
- Style: Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV: 9.0
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![Saison Du Héritage Farmhouse Style Ale](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Saison-Du-Heritage-Farmhouse-Style-Ale-962x1024.jpg)
Saison Du Héritage was brewed out of love for authentic Belgian Saisons. We did our best to pay our respects to the tradition and methods of brewing this style of beer. Utilizing local rustic malts such as spelt and red wheat from Epiphany Craft Malt in Durham, along with doing a traditional step mash. This beer consists of a blend of 2 saison strains from Belgium and is full of luscious fruity esters. This beer is also naturally carbonated to heighten the drinking experience and flavor. A votre santé mon amies!
- Style: Farmhouse Style Ale
- ABV: 5.7
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Sometimes in life you just need a cookie. Whether it’s celebrating life’s successes or just reminding the homies that you love them and expressing your words is hard and giving a cookie is easier. This cookie beer is for that exact moment. The base beer is a Northern English Brown Ale with waves of roasty chocolate and toffee. We conditioned this beer on heaps of golden raisins and Vietnamese cinnamon. Reminiscent of Grandma’s warm, fresh baked oatmeal cookies.
- Style: Brown Ale
- ABV: 5.2
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![Perry's Epiphany Hefeweizen](https://blackbirdbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Hefe-942x1024.jpg)
Classic German style wheat beer. 50% of this beer is made from wheat grown at Perry Family Farm in Rolesville four miles from the brewery and malted at Epiphany Craft Malt in Durham. Brewed the hard way, this went through five mash steps including two decoctions to get every bit of character these malts have to offer. Naturally carbonated and unfiltered.
- Style: Hefeweizen
- ABV: 4.8
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We all live in a yellow submarine, propelling through a sea of hazy IPAs and this is a damn good one. We dove all in by double dry hopping with Citra for those looking for juice. Made with a base of oat malt and London yeast for an opaque and creamy base. This brew was dry hopped mid fermentation with Citra Cryo to pick up those lush biotransformation characters from the yeast and then doused a few days later with hand selected Citra T90s.
- Style: Hazy IPA
- ABV: 7.6
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