Process: A blend of 1 & 2 year old pale wheat beers brewed with malted barley, malted wheat and raw wheat. Spontaneously fermented and aged in neutral French oak barrels . The beer was moved onto Pinot Meunier grape pomace in tank. It remained there for 2 months with punch-downs performed for the initial stages of refermentation. We then blended in a portion of beer which had refermented on Guinevere plums from East Sussex. This plum beer had been in barrel for a year prior. Similarly to the arc, the beer was left to homogenise before further blending and bottling.

Conditioning: Packaged with a small amount of priming sugar for natural carbonation in the bottle. We do not add yeast at this point, or at any point in the process. Bottles laid to rest on side and conditioned until release.

Ingredients: Malted barley (pilsner), malted wheat, raw wheat, aged hops (whole leaf fuggle, saaz & strisselspalt), pinot meunier grape pomace, guinevere plums, water.

Brew season: 2019/2020 & 2020/2021

Fruit season: 2020 & 2021

We are a small blendery operation located at The Grainworks in Hertfordshire, UK. Our focus is on producing 100% spontaneously fermented beers aged in traditional vessels such as oak barrels. The aim is to source our ingredients as close to the Blendery as possible. We work with farmers and growers directly, and promote their amazing produce through our beers, our website and social media.

Our work is seasonal. We brew in the cold months and fruit in the warm. Each beer we make is of that year. It is of that season and it cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world. The way we make our beer and its eventual flavour characteristics blur the lines between beer and other fermented beverages.

Many of the techniques, methods and concepts behind wine/cider/perry are also found in our process. As a result we want to emphasise the ‘crossing over’ of beer into these other drinks which are often considered a distant and superior or inferior cousin.

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