Borough Pale Ale

A beer seller and two London brewers have collaborated on a beer that will raise funds for the Borough Market Traders Relief Fund.

Utobeer, which has a beer stall in the market, and The Kernel and Tap East have created Borough Pale Ale (4.5% ABV), which will be launched at The Rake bar, behind the market, next Wednesday (August 2).

Saturday, June 3, is a date that not many people who work, live in and love Borough Market will forget any time soon; when three men decided to try to impose their brand of terrorism on innocent people going about their Saturday night eating and drinking. People all over the world were shocked; this was not something that should happen anywhere, let alone a food market.

The market was closed for ten long, awful days as traders lost out on their livelihoods, employees lost out on wages and ordinary people and customers were not able to enjoy the peace and conviviality of a market that’s been around in one form or another for 1,000 years.

Since then, there have been tragic stories shared of the injured and dead, about acts of heroism from the emergency services and from ordinary people standing in the way of terrorists protecting their friends with their own lives. Now there is the job of healing and rebuilding.

With this in mind, Utobeer decided to collaborate on a beer to help the traders in the only way it can — by selling the beer! The idea was, of course, conceived over a few beers between Richie, the Utobeer shop manager, and ex-borough market cheesemonger, Evin O’Riordan, once of Neals Yard Dairy and now of Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey.

The beer is single hopped with a new German variety called Monroe, which has loads of red fruit aromas, such as raspberry and cherry, supplemented with orange syrup notes. The malt bill is one-third oats, which will give the beer a lovely creamy mouthfeel.