Picked up a couple of Wild Beer Company beers yesterday in Waitrose. Based in Somerset these guys have a specialty for alternative fermentation's and unorthodox yeasts as well as barrel-ageing and blending, the beers they produce are usually guaranteed to raise eye-brows! The first one I tried was called "Nebula" a hazy New England style IPA weighing in at around 5% ABV - nice and fruity up front with reasonable bitterness, not the most balanced beer I've ever had but nice enough, could easily sink a couple of these. The second beer was a stout called "Millionaire" (see below)
This beer was amazing, velvety smooth and highly complex it's made from dark and caramel malts and includes sweetness from lactose sugar and a salted caramel/chocolate from cocoa nibs and actual sea salt - it sounds like a dogs breakfast but was more like a posh ice-cream Sunday! Usually you'd expect a mouthfeel like this to come with a 10-12% alcohol penalty, but this beauty was only 4.7% - perfect!
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