Bedlam Brewery has announced the release of its limited edition Freedom IPA, in support of the humanitarian effort in Ukraine.
Head brewer Clark Coslett-Hughes with a bottle of Freedom IPA
£15 from every case of 12 bottles sold will be donated to vetted relief organisations active in Ukraine via the international Brew for Ukraine initiative set up by the Pravda Beer Theatre in Lviv.
If all 260-odd cases of this limited-run beer are sold, that amounts to potential donations totalling some £4,000.
Additionally, a QR code has been included on the bottle label that will enable those who wish to donate additional funds to do so via the Disasters Emergency Committee website if desired.
Rob Shepherd, managing director of Bedlam Brewery, said: “Ordinarily, we’d celebrate the release of a new beer, but there’s nothing to celebrate here given the horrific ongoing situation in Ukraine.
“All we can hope is, that by releasing this beer, we can raise some funds in support of the enormous humanitarian relief effort that is, and will continue for a long time to be, required in Ukraine, a country where a bloody conflict is being fought but whose western border is only some 22 hours’ drive from the brewery.”
Freedom is a robust, piney, citrus hop India Pale Ale, with hints of tangerine skin bitterness accompanied by a deliciously smooth biscuit malt body. Persisting bitterness leaves one pleading to take another sip of this defiant and valiant IPA.
• Freedom (5% ABV) will be available to order in 500ml bottles via bedlambrewery.co.
