After discovering wild hops growing in the countryside near my hometown of Suceava, Romania in 2016, I was curious of their variety and what kind of beer I could brew with them. Despite being well past their harvest season, the samples I took went into a first experiment the following year with my "Dust N' Bones" pale ale out of which half was dry-hopped with these, giving it a very interesting piney aroma. The following season I was fortunate enough to have my family's help in harvesting even more wild hops, this time packed and sealed in proper vacuum bags. This was the harvest I used to brew the first batch of "Straja" in early 2018, out of which 25% was dry-hopped and 25% was double dry-hopped. The double dry-hopped one was too grassy, while the single dry-hopped one barely had any extra aromas, so it was the regular batch that made the final cut. Later that year I brewed an entire batch using that same pale ale recipe followed by a few more iterations in the years after, trying to see just how much I could get out of those wild hops. Eventually though I decided to make this a truly wild ale by changing the yeast to a blend of low attenuating Belgian saison yeast, Lactobacillus, and three Brettanomyces yeast strains.