Five Barrel Brewing Spiced Ginger Sour

Style
Spiced Ginger Sour
ABV
4.5%

A food processor was the quiet hero behind this beer. Brewer Phil O’Shea put 20kg into the 350 litre batch - all of which had to be chopped up by the food processor first. But, says Phil, he’s had to tackle more difficult ingredients before.

“The ginger wasn’t too bad,” he says. “It was easier than some of the other things we’ve done. Shucking oysters was worse and zesting lemons was worse again."

Cardamom and tea leaves (for some earthiness) were also chucked into the beer, which was made with a view to go a different way with sours rather than just adding fruit. He's been experimenting with that sort of thing at the brewery bar and the one keg he made of the spiced ginger sour was so popular it made its way into bottles.

The presence of the ginger really balances out the sourness of the beer. Combined with the carbonation, it calls to mind the ginger beer of childhood, even though there’s actually no real sweetness here. Phil actually brewed 700 litres of sour beer, splitting off 350 for the spiced ginger release. This means he has 350 more litres to experiment with new flavourings over the brewery bar. So stay tuned.

Glen Humphries

Published May 30, 2019

Name
Five Barrel Brewing
Address

318 Keira Street
Wollongong
NSW 2500

Phone
(02) 4200 8881
Open Hours

Sun to Wed: midday to 6pm
Thurs to Sat: midday to 9pm

AIBA 2024 dinner B2 BONUS

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