Revisited this little beauty on Saturday. It's an IPA style beer made by my local craft brewery Siren and Norwegian stars Lervig. Lervig have a reputation for making excellent fruit beers, i.e. beer that's had fruit (of varying kinds) added to it at some point in the process. It's a very traditional thing to do in places like Belgium and the low countries but not so popular in the UK. This one has had a ton of blueberries added to it (hence the dark red colour) and it's delicious. As well as the more obvious malt and hop flavours, it's got that sweet-sour thing that blueberries have, i.e. initially they taste really sweet but after few seconds in the mouth you get a slightly sour sensation, it's delightful. I don't think you can buy this beer anymore, being a collaboration it was only made once, but hopefully someone made a note of the recipe and Siren can make it again sometime, I'd certainly hoover up a case for the Summer months, perfect BBQ beer!
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