Red Duck Gruitest

Style
Golden Gruit
ABV
6.3%

A couple of years back, Red Duck's brewer made one of his regular ventures back in time to create a beer with its origins in Medieval, pre-hop Britain. Canute the Gruit featured homemade nettle juice, deliberately scorched grains and various other unusual ingredients to create a beer that was smokey, sour and odd, but over time developed into something really rather good. He followed it up with Gruiter, described as a "Renaissance" take on the style that lacked the complexity of the former but made up for it with possibly the most lip-puckering intensity of any beer released in Oz last year. Now the superlative trilogy is completed by Gruitest, a "modern gruit ale". If you're not sure what a modern gruit ale is, don't worry, we've no idea. Thankfully brewer Scott is on hand to at least tell us what's gone into it. Namely: "yarrow, wormwood, mugwort, dandelion leaf, sweet dried orange peel, lemon balm, elderflowers, hibiscus flowers and hawthorn berries." If it sounds like something you'd stumble upon in a tent in the Green Fields of Glastonbury circa 1994, it probably is, but with the shrooms replaced by booze. He tells us it "has a wonderful strong malt character, balanced by soft herbal and floral aromatics ... and a slight natural tartness, which occured naturally from the gruit additions." Intriguing...

Published September 17, 2013

Name
Red Duck Brewery
Address

11a Michaels Drive
Alfredton
VIC 3350

Phone
(03) 5332 0723
Open Hours

All week: midday to 5pm

CBCo Goldy
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