Sour Beer

SOURDOUGH CULTURE + OAK BARREL FERMENTATION Beer and Bread have been showing off the magic of yeast for thousands of years, we decided to combine them using a 60 year old sourdough yeast!

OLD ALE + OAK-AGED FOR 90 DAYS + WILD YEAST This is the beer that started the brewery, a Wild beer, an untamed beast that thrives on the unpredictability of wild yeast and the subtlety and complexity of maturation in oak.

BLENDING + SOUR + NINKASI Ninkasi has long been a favourite at Wild Beer due to its versitility of flavours that work so beautifully with food. We wanted to take this further by bringing in some acidity to balance with the rich saison character and so we blended in our infamous sour beer 'Somerset Wild'. The result was divine!

PINEAPPLE + SPICES + WILD YEASTS

PRESERVED LEMONS + SALT = REFRESHING GOSE A refreshing summer gose made with preserved lemons, deliciously lemony, salty and refreshingly good.

BARREL-AGED + CHERRIES + SPECIAL EDITION 2020 To go “Beyond Modus” for this year we have added in barrels of sour cherry beer. Our favourite character of Modus Operandi is the beautiful notes of cherry pie, we thought amplifying this flavour would be a fun direction to take this year’s project.

PRESERVED LEMONS + SALT = REFRESHING GOSE A refreshing summer gose made with preserved lemons, deliciously lemony, salty and refreshingly good.

LIME & TROPICAL FRUITS A punchy tropical sour with lots of fresh lime zest to the fore, backed up with tropical fruits, fresh, zingly and clean. Sucker Punch’s bright pink colour comes from cranberries and boasts a big tropical skittles-like aroma.

Soft crisp with a slightly dry finish. This Gose style sour is given the jungle treatment with additions of mango.

Light, fresh, salty and tart, The Gose is our interpretation of the classic Leipzig sour beer in its purest form.

TRIPLE-FRUITED MELBA SOUR Brewed with our house cultures of yeast and souring bacteria, Who is Nellie? is a thick smoothie-like beer, brewed with wheat and oats and featuring 360 grams per litre of fruit. Peach, apricot and a hint of raspberry dominate the flavour finished with a sweetness from a touch of vanilla

Inspired by the 'recording studio as instrument' concept, this beer utilises our brewhouse in different ways to build the composition of the beer. We're simultaneously cold-steeping and kettle souring, before blending everything back together in harmony. The result is rich in flavour with incredible drinkability.

Strawberry, Kiwi and Watermelon Sour.

Inspired by classic Weissbiers and Belgian Wits, the background yeast character comes from the Munich Wheat yeast strain and the real raspberry puree added during fermentation imparts beautiful fresh fruit notes and gives a delicate pink hue to this hazy "white" beer. It's a real thirst quencher.

A An oud bruin style ale, fermented with our mother culture of wild yeasts and microbes, aged in stainless steel before transferring to a calvados barrel for three months ahead of bottling.

Inspired by aromatic white wines from the Alsace, The Jester & Lychee Sour brings together the tropical fruit and spicy aroma of Jester hops, with the floral, sweet perfumed notes of lychee. A light malt base and bright acidity keep the beer fresh and lively, and a clean American Ale yeast allows for all the fruity flavours to shine through.

This blackcurrant sour is the perfect combination of tangy and tart. Refreshingly sour, getting you into the vibe for Ribes. Other blackcurrant drinks are available, but this will be the only one to give you those good time ribes.

?Light Becomes Her Apricot is a barrel aged, sour golden beer with a hint of apricot sweetness, for the perfect balance of flavour. We brew a rich golden ale and then put it in our foeder (a big oak barrel) to ferment and mature over 6 months. Our Foudre has unique, live cultures in the wood that help the beer to sour and the flavours to develop over time, making every batch unique. Once the live cultures have got to work creating a lovely sour beer, we add the ripe apricots and leave to mature. Those apricots share their sweet ripe flavours with the beer and Light Becomes Her is born.

A mixed fermentation berliner weisse style beer conditioned on mango. Fresh mango, light acidity, dry and crisp.

Our Preserva series of sour fruit Goses take inspiration from traditional preserves, from the use of salt and coriander seed to live lactic fermentation and fruit selection. The first in this series is inspired by marmalade with the additions of orange zest and juice.

A mixed fermentation berliner weisse style beer conditioned on passion fruit. Massive tropical aromas, juicy acidity, dry and crisp.

Our core sour beer. A clean kettle sour, dry hopped with Citra. Crisp, tart and extremely refreshing.

A cognac barrel aged dark sour. Rich cognac and chocolate, acidic, oaky and vinous.

The IPAs of yesteryear were brewed strong, bitter & hoppy in order to withstand travelling long distances/ageing - a vast difference to what we generally accept IPAs to be today. We wanted to make something that bridges that gap & brewed a barrel aged, mixed fermented beer, generously hopped with Nelson Sauvin & Amarillo hops. The resulting beer is fruity and funky with a hop character that will continue to develop over time.

A festive fruit sour showcasing the classic pairing of juniper and sloe berries. A whirlpool addition of juniper imparts a gentle botanical aroma and pairs perfectly with the soft, fruity plumbiness of the sloe juice. A simple malt base of Maris Otter and wheat allow the berries shine through, whilst a fresh acidity balances the sweetness, leading to a bright, fresh finish.

This next instalment in our Assemblage Oenobeer series is 'The Cold Bay', a Sauvignon Blanc Sour beer. We have used coriander seed and sea salt to give a citrus bite and saline tang to the finish, reminiscent of a traditional Gose beer. This blends into a delightfully tart, clean wine finish with top notes of zesty key lime and preserved lemons.

Rich dark fruits, acidic, dry and refreshing.

We could all do with a slice of sunshine right now, and who better than Todd from Slim Pickens to help us out with some Floridian vibes. Our collaboration is loaded up with plenty of oats and wheat, a whopping 1,200 kg of mango purée and a generous helping of feel-good vanilla. A smooth and sour tropical treat.

A low alcohol mixed culture Sicilian lemonade sour. Conditioned on Sicilian lemons and a small quantity of mandarin oranges and pink grapefruit.

Fruited Sour IPA w/ Peach, Passionfruit, Vanilla & El Dorado Blender will be a focus on the mix of styles, additions and barrels. This iteration welcomes peach, passionfruit, vanilla and El Dorado hops. A vibrant colour and aroma lead into a full body and a silky mouthfeel, drenched in juicy, tart stone fruit flavours and a soft sweetness from the vanilla. If you're looking for a solero party in your mouth, you're in the right place.

3 Fonteinen ?Intens Rood? (Intense Red) is the result of macerating hand-picked whole sour cherries on lambic for at least six months, in a proportion of one kilogram of fruit per litre of lambic, and is then blended again with more lambic to obtain a minimum intensity of 450 grams of fruit per liter. The kriek lambic ferments in the bottle for at least another six months and develops into an intense wine-like fruit lambic. This bottle fermented, unfiltered and unpasteurised lambic is all-natural with no artificial juices, syrups, or sugars added. Traditional Lambic is living, cultural heritage rooted in the Zenne valley!

Absolutely full of berry wonderment backed up with Marshmallows and Chocolate

Juicy watermelon, tropical guava, smooth, light acidity, dry and refreshing.