– World Cup 2022 – We’re Showing It
– 11 Nov: Balance x Polyspore – Wild Ale w/ Mushrooms launch
– Sierra Nevada Tap Takeover
Iconic California brewery Sierra Nevada shook things up in the beer world in the 80’s and paved the way for the beer industry as we now know it. These days, they’re continuing to create great beer and pushing boundaries as they explore sustainability in their business. It’s for this reason we’ve chosen them as one of the few international brewers we’re invited to IMBC and we’re overjoyed to invite them to take over our taps as part of IMBC Fringe. Including three vintaged of their fantastic Bigfoot barley wine, and (maybe more impressively) three incredibly rare in the UK beers, all versions of Sierra Nevadas iconic ‘Pale Ale’, and get this, they’re on bloody cask.
Check out this line up….
On keg
Bigfoot barleywine (9.6%) is a beast of a beer, packed with bittersweet malt and heaps of aggressive whole-cone Pacific Northwest hops. First introduced in the winter of 1983, Bigfoot is a cult-classic brewed in the barleywine style—strong and robust with the refined intensity of a wine. Bigfoot is prized by beer collectors for aging in cellars. Under the proper conditions, it can develop enticing new flavors and character as it matures in the bottle. Each new release or “expedition” is vintage dated. Collect your own and savor the evolving flavors.
– Unity Brewing Tap Takeover
Inspired by some of our favourite cask beer in the UK, this is a real showcase of East Anglian Malt and Hereford hops, combined to create balance and drinkability.
The latest vintage of our ongoing project with Charlie Herring wines. The ’21 is a simple pale ale base aged on the UK’s only Riesling skins for 5 months before further conditioning in tank and package.
The second beer in our ongoing project with Charlie Herring wines. The ’21 vintage of Graff is a blend of a simple pale ale co-fermented with cider from Charlie Herring wines.
A rye saison secondary fermented with wild yeast and bacteria from grape skins.
A West Coast IPA secondary fermented with wild yeast and bacteria from grape skins