Additional Barrel-Aged Beer Background
We recently spoke with some of the brewers at Avery who created the barrel-aged beers and managed to get a little more background information about the making and inspiration which may help as inspiration.
Brabant is a type of large, Belgian draft horse. The most interesting thing about our Brabant beer is the fact that it is fermented with two strains of “wild” yeast, or brettanomyces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brettanomyces) . Brett is well know to impart flavors and aromas of “sweaty saddle”, “barnyard” or “horsey flavors”, giving new meaning to our naming this beer Brabant.
Sui Generis – This beer was a blend of a BUNCH of different types of barrels, and was a very unique way to build/brew a beer, hence the name Sui Generis, which means “constituting a class of its own; unique”. Chardonnay, port, bourbon, Cab sav barrels etc. all went into this beer. Very rare way to make a beer!
The black tot is named after the infamous day when to British Royal Navy stopped serving sailors their daily allotment of rum. More information can be found at the following links:
