Sour Plum Porter

Fruit beer 6.8%
Bottle conditioned, in 375 ml champagne bottles.
Release date 21 March 2013.
Not sold in retail outlets: from the brewery only.

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Brewed on Wednesday 7 November 2012. Bottled 27.2.2013.

Design

The plums on this particular tree at the top of Hall Road never get sweet and they ripen very late in the season. But they have a sharpness that I thought would be good in a beer, giving it the sort of tartness that you usually find in a Belgian lambic. The wild yeasts have contributed to the fermentation, so it is as dry as a bone and the acids in the fruit have permeated the beer giving it the power to make your mouth water in the after-taste. Try this. It is a sipping beer to be drunk in a small glass. It is based on Ten Thousand Geese, the robust smoked porter but the plums were added in a couple of demijohns for about 3 months.

Tasting notes

This beer is produced without the use of any finings, filtering or pasteurisation, so all the flavours of the ingredients are preserved for your enjoyment.

Martin Warren, The Poppyland Brewer
31.1.2013