Here’s an extra special beer we brewed on our 8th Birthday way back in February (8 percent!) and also to celebrate reaching the brewery’s 500th Gyle. 

We brewed a super strong, very hoppy, reasonably bitter saison with carefully aged low alpha English hops, and fermented with a fun yeast strain which ferments bone dry but leaves a lot of body from glycerol production. We then blended in a handful of barrels of sour beer we had been aging in oak, with our mixed culture of native Northumbrian wild yeast, pediococcus and lactobacillus, before further aging in stainless to allow the two beers to integrate fully. 

Breaking from our usual tradition of putting our mixed ferm beers in green bottles, we packaged this one in cans.

It’s a strong beer, but deceptively easy drinking, hence the name. Pairs great with salty food, and best treated like a red wine, not served too cold, and not drunk too quickly!

440ml can

Vegan. Contains gluten.