Wild Beer Co has unveiled three new barrel-aged beers that each represent the maker’s brewing and blending methods in very different ways.
Natural ingredients are used in each of Wild Beer Co’s barrel-aged beers. There’s a natural ageing process, and the best quality barrels are filled to create a unique flavour with every brew.
The beers
Roots (9.5% ABV)
An oak-aged ginger beer with hits of sweet honey, ginger spices, and a hint of sherry. Without the use of hops, the brewer was able to create a rich and flavoursome beer that pays tribute to a previous blend, called Dr Todd.
“We filled Dr Todd into a Somerset cider brandy barrel and aged it for five years until it was perfectly balanced,” says the brewer. “We introduced honey and ginger to the barrel to compliment the flavours, producing a sweet hint that pushes its way through the oak tannins.”
Lally Wants a Cracker (5.8% ABV)
A crisp, salty beer, with enough acidity to soothe the soul, but not enough that you can’t enjoy it with food and friends. Crisp, refreshing, and thirst-quenching, it has been aged in ‘first use’ tequila and port barrels for four years, then carefully blended with oak-aged fruit beers.
Unvined (8.6% ABV)
A spontaneous beer fermented on 2020 Reichen-steiner grape juice and must from Melbury Vale winery. A sour beer with a lingering grape finish.
Using the delicate microflora straight from the fresh grapes, two batches of pale wort were fermented on the juice and the must for two years, in neutral French oak barrels. The combination of grape and grain makes this beer both vinous and refreshing, with a spritzy finish. The grapes were foot-stomped at the brewery in coolship vats, then left for a week to start their fermentation naturally, much like an orange wine.
