Cup o’ Kindness

ARTWORK BY CLARE FINDON

KVEIK GOLDEN ALE
5% ABV
SEASONS CHANGE

A perfectly light and lagery ale for Hogmanay. Brewed in honour of our pithy Bard on his special day come January and true mid Winter. 

A fairly traditional British Golden Ale recipe fermented with Voss Kveik, Cup O’ Kindness will keep you sweet. The clean orange-citrus esters from the yeast blend enormously well with the Winter berry flavours and subtle spiciness you get from the English hops. 

Endeavour, Goldings and Bramling Cross flavour the beer and lend themselves to the juicy, bramble-like aroma. A mixed up mash made up of pilsner, maris otter, Munich, chit, oats and spelt create a fluffy, light-medium bodied and dry beer with a golden sunshine hue. 

This straw-like, low Winter sun yellow is reflected in Clare’s artwork. The spirit of Hogmanay and the sense of community, conjured up in Burns’ famous New Years anthem, is delicately and beautifully portrayed in Findon's illustration, evoking harmony and hope.

The beer pours like a lively helles with a thick and persistent, cuff-like head. Foamy bubbles elevate smells of candy floss, treacly flapjack and mango rice pudding. There’s even a whiff of irn bru going on, and impressions of blackcurrant, loganberry, elderflower and heather honey. 

What permeates predominantly on the palate, however, is sweet satsumas and a clean citric acidity. So, call it a St. Clements, because it’s pure oranges and lemons. But then a pulpy dryness takes ahold with that Pilgrimmy bitter twang peppering the long finish.