A celebration of 2020 (not something you'll hear often)! My local craft brewery Siren have put together a collage of all the beers they made over the year. It's an amazing collection, and typical of modern craft breweries like them, variety and experimentation is their "thing" and I'm all for that. The picture shows 10 barrel aged ales (in bottles) and 14 examples of their "suspended" series (in cask), basically the same light sessionable 4% base but with different hops each time (the blue labels at the bottom) The other 71 beers are a collection of one offs, repeats and collaborations with other breweries, all in can, it's an impressive haul!
I had a quick scan of the hi-res PDF and reckon I've tried 56 out of 71 of the cans but only 2 of the barrel aged beers in bottles. I've had quite a few of the "suspended" in series, probably around half of them. That's pretty good from one producer, certainly not possible from more traditional, larger brewers who tend to limit their production to a handful of regular (i.e. the same) recipes. Siren are lucky, they did a small funding round two years ago and installed a swanky canning line just in time for the pandemic and the lockdown, pretty much all of their business this year has switched to cans from cask (to pubs and bars) and that format is perfectly suited to high turnover and variety, particularly when they can sell direct to people with the "collector" gene (like me).
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