Adnams has teamed up with Harbour Brewing Co to launch the second beer in its 2021 collaboration brew series, Break Point.

Adnams Harbour Break Point

Inspired by Harbour Brewing Co’s farm home, the coastal breweries’ collaboration is a farmhouse pale ale, with big waves of tropical fruit.

With the launch of Break Point, Adnams is committing to the removal of plastic from all future twelve-pack collaboration brew cases, which marks the next stage of Adnams’ commitment to building a sustainable future.

Embracing the farmhouse brewing process, Break Point is fermented with a Norwegian kveik yeast strain, known for generating deep, fruity flavours and aromas. This fruitiness is heightened with Citra hops and balanced with a biscuity, caramelised undercurrent from locally-sourced malted barley, and rye from Jonathan Adnams’ farm. The result is a light, juicy farmhouse pale ale, the colour of fresh straw.

Adnams’ head brewer, Fergus Fitzgerald, said: “I’ve known Eddie Lofthouse, the founder of Harbour, since 2015, and immediately fell in love with the brewery’s connection to their local environment and commitment to working with what nature has supplied them. At Adnams, we share that sense of place, and our coastal locations clearly influence our outlook.

Environmental commitment

“We really enjoyed collaborating with Harbour head brewer, Genevieve Upton, to design Break Point. This was our first time working with a kveik yeast strain and we were very excited in Southwold. It produced lovely, crisp, tropical fruit flavours, which are really going to lend themselves to summer drinking.

“This collaboration and its environmental commitment also focused our attention on our packaging, and we are really motivated to removing as much plastic as we can moving forward.”

Each new beer in Adnams’ 2021 collaboration series will support a sustainability commitment, continuing to build on Adnams’ eco-friendly values.

In addition to the removal of plastic packaging, all new Adnams products will launch in cardboard cartons rather than shrink-wrapped trays. With this pledge Adnams estimates reducing plastic consumption by 1.8 tonnes over the next 12 months.