Epochal Barrel Fermented Ales - "Visionary Pursuits" Scottish Stock Pale Ale (375ml)

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Producer	Epochal Barrel Fermented Ales
Country	Scotland
Style	Saison
Sku	7350141840472
Size	375ml

8.7% Scottish stock pale ale hopped with Bramling Cross and Tettnang

Summer is here and it's name is stock beer! Epochal has a luxury pale ale for you.

This was filled during the boil with a bounty of whole flower Bramling Cross, one of those delightful Ernest Salmon-bred hops which offer earthy English leafy spicy character but also appealing fruit wines.

As a child, I was not allowed Tettnang and ever since, Tettnang has held a special indulgence. This was dry hopped amply with the finest whole flower Tettnanger offering aromas noble in reason and infinite in faculty.

After open fermentation, the beer was transferred to neutral oak casks full of pale-ale-friendly microbes and allowed to ferment with with our special Tettnanger allowing hop creep and Brettanomyces fermentation to produce poised dryness and exquisite perfumes.

When ripe, the aged beer is blended with fresh beer to deliver lively carbonation, much foam and a touch of freshness.

The result is a complex but invigorating pale ale full of richly intermingled hop and fermentation character. There is jasmine and honeysuckle, blackcurrant jam, dried guava, pink peppercorn and elderberry wine. On the palate, it's exceptionally light, dry, bitter balanced and possessed of a gaseous, refreshing quality.

The beer is named after a favourite story about a young brewer and advocate of thermometers and hydrometers, back in the 18th Century when that was controversial. He brought these to Whitbread brewery to advocate for their use and was sent away, admonished "go home, young man, attend to your business and do not engage in such visionary pursuits!" Yes!