Epochal Barrel Fermented Ales - "Aiken Drum" Scottish Stock Brown Ale (375ml)

Continue Shopping Add to Wish List

UNT

3.67

Price: $11.99

Qty:   Add to Cart

Quantity in Stock: 5

Producer	Epochal Barrel Fermented Ales
Country	Scotland
Style	Sour Ale,  Brown Ale
Sku	7350141840465
Size	375ml

5.8% Scottish stock brown ale dry hopped with Amarillo

I'm delighted to announce a very new Epochal beer just for you. This is a blend of ales brewed with crystal and amber malts, boiled with aged Admiral hops, fermented neutral oak and Bordeaux casks with Pilgrim hops, known for their strawberry notes. These beers were aged for between a year and 18 months to achieve significant funk and subtle acidity before final blending and dry hopping with a judicious quantity of whole leaf Amarillo.

The result is a singular, subtle and delicious beer combining approachably fruity vibrancy with deep funk and restrained, piquant acidity. It has a lovely colour at the paler end of brown, tight foam and a very pretty aroma of peaches, red berries, pineapples, flowers, pine, subtle oak, aromatic acids and a little biscuity note of amber malt. On the palate, it is light, tart, subtly bitter and most refreshing.

The beer is named after the central creature in the 1825 poem The Brownie of Blednoch, by William Nicholson.

The poem inspired a delightfully goth depiction of Aiken Drum by Edward Atkinson Hornel (1889), which which currently hangs in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow.