Truman’s has brewed its first tank ready beer — Truman’s RAW — a crisp and smooth, unfiltered, Kolsch-style lager.

The beer has a full-bodied, silky smooth mouthfeel with delicate flavours and aromas of light honeysuckle and biscuit, balanced with the bitterness from the Czech Hallertau Mittlefruh hops. The raw condition of the lager ensures that no flavour or aroma has been stripped out by filters or external gases.

Truman's RAWTank beer is not a distant cry from the old Truman days where, historically, the brewer’s biggest customers would install ceramic tanks in their cellars to ensure they would never run out of fresh, flavoursome beer. Truman’s RAW lager will be delivered from the conditioning tanks at the brewery in Hackney Wick direct to specially engineered tanks in the pub.

RAW Lager is unpasteurised and unfiltered which means the beer is still ‘alive’ and continues to mature and develop further flavour in the pub’s tanks. The delivery process guarantees the beer never reaches above 5°c, ensuring minimal oxidation and no contact with any external oxygen or CO2, giving the freshest pint possible outside of the brewery. In fact, the first time Truman’s RAW Lager has any contact with external gas is when it’s first poured into the glass at the pub.

Truman’s re-founder, James Morgan, said: “We’re excited to have produced our first tank beer, Truman’s RAW, which perfectly complements our existing range of cask and keg beers. Truman’s are committed to not only brewing, but also supplying the freshest beer possible to our customers, and Truman’s RAW is the epitome of freshness. Truman’s RAW is jam packed full of delicate flavours and aromas, our processes ensuring every pint is pure and unadulterated, as nature intended.”

Complementary menu 

Having secured its first order with Hippo Inns, the beer will be served to the public from February 2017 at the group’s latest pub launch, The Eagle, a former Truman’s pub located in Ladbroke Grove, West London.

The Eagle’s head chef, Stan Perry, has prepared a British- and Bavarian-inspired menu to complement the new beer. The RAW Lager will be great accompaniment to dishes such as chicken schnitzel, sausage and mash and seasonally-changing fish dinners, as well as the perfect sidekick to the pub’s snack menu, which includes breaded squid, pig knuckle croquettes and cocktail sausages.

Hippo Inns founder, Rupert Clevely, said: “We aim to create a one-of-a-kind experience within each of our neighbourhood pubs. We are delighted to be working with Truman’s, another great London brand known for their exceptionally fresh beer, who will offer our guests with an exclusive taste of London’s history at The Eagle.”