Bush Pilot Brewing launches with Stormy Monday barrel-aged barley wine
Hastings County-based Bush Pilot Brewing Co. has launched with their first product, Stormy Monday, a barrel-aged, spiced barley wine.
Bush Pilot is currently contract brewing out of Niagara College Teaching Brewery and Nickel Brook, but identified plans to build a microbrewery in the Hastings Highlands.
The 11% ABV Stormy Monday was described by Bush Pilot as, “a spiced barley wine aged in Calvados barrels. Legendary Danish craft brewer Anders Kissmeyer (of Nørrebro Bryghus fame) created the recipe and supervised the brewing/aging process. We prepared a huge cargo of spices consisting of star anise, bitter orange peel, cocoa, cinnamon, dried fruit (quince, apple, dates, raisins, figs), real vanilla beans, cardamom, juniper berries and the list goes on and on… We also used pure maple syrup from our long time supplier and friend Frank Higgins of Combermere, Ontario. It is fair to say we logged quite a few hours sourcing some of these ingredients all over the world.”
“The resulting beer was aged for over seven months in Calvados barrels sourced from Domaine Dupont, Normandy, France. A second, non-barrel aged batch was brewed in order to create a rather harmonious presence of oak and Calvados notes. At the end, we settled for the 60:40 blend (barrel vs. non-barrel batches).”
Stormy Monday is currently rolling out across Ontario at $12.75 per 750 mL bottle with availability details to be announced.
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