Buxton TSAR Bomba

Buxton Brewery • England

From the brewery:

“In 1978, The Courage Brewery brewed a batch of Imperial Russian Stout, aged it in infected, wooden Hogsheads and some time later…. it was put into bottles.

34 years after that, we opened a bottle, drank the beer (which was amazing) and rescued the intriguing combination of sedimented yeasts and debris from the bottom of the aged vessel. We then inoculated a barrel of our own Russian Imperial Stout – TSAR with this precious sludge and left the beer to its own devices for 9 months. The only attention this beer got from us was a weekly roll-around-the-brewery, just like the Courage Hogsheads got.

Following this 9 month ageing, the beer that we now tasted had changed in character remarkably. The familiar landmarks were still there – huge body, chocolate, molasses, but now there was so much more. The Brettanomyces strain of yeast that had laid dormant in the bottle all those years had re-awakened when dispersed amongst our young, fresh Imperial Stout, and had gone to work with vigour. Boosting the ABV by a further half-percent, and adding a delicious, trade-mark tartness to the beer, complimenting its hop bitterness and deep malty and dark fruit flavours.

The TSAR Bomba was born.”

Style: Russian Imperial Stout

ABV: 10.0%

Packaging: 330ml bottle

Brewer Website: http://www.buxtonbrewery.co.uk/

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