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This is older brother of O'Gurke, our first attempt of "Grandma's pickles jar". In the beginning it was just Captain Salt + Tomato, but since one-time experiment it has grow up into seasonal must have and festival hangover relief. The name has found it itself, being a nick-name given by lovers, and now it's destined to stay forever.
This is a double version of our with chipotle. If you haven't known or forgot, chipotle is a smoked jalapeno hot pepper. We mostly boosted the alcohol, so don't worry, it still doesn't burn out the taste buds, at least we think so. And disclaimer: no, neither alcohol, nor hot pepper doesn't help to fight the virus, but they don't obstruct the it as well. So keep calm and wash your hands.
Long awaited collab between Siren form UK and our brewery. It's a merge between their Broken Dream and our Caribbean Dream. Imperial porter with coconut and coffee. Coffee was roasted at local Kyiv roastery, so it's almost a tri-collab.
We all need more white stripes in our striped life sometimes. So here they are. This is super seasonal, one-time brew our brewers envisioned for a long time and they've got all the ingredients at last. A lot of birch sap, barley and wheat and rye malts, saison yeast, few raisins and a bit of spring magic will definitely improve reality, at least to some degree.
When breweries meet and decide to brew something together, sometimes it takes a lot of efforts to choose an idea. But not this time. Expertise and experience of Saugatuck multiplied by love for the Varvar Milk Stout, and so we have a square milk stout. Or rather Imperial Milk Stout. Almost a month of e-mailing, more than a day and night of brewing, artwork, naming, a bit of magic and love for beer, and that's it. "Awaken your inner sweet-tooth and open up new flavor horizons!". No. Just enjoy this beer brought to you by three teams: Saugatuck Brewing Company, Beermasterday by Silpo and Varvar Brewery. And yes, beer is connecting people.
This beer is a new step of our evolution. The recipe was designed exclusively to became the first release in our canned line-up. We decided instantly that it should be something easy, summerish, but not lacking flavor and joy of hops. So the name just came after an evening run. Imagine coming back home slightly but pleasantly tired, thirsty, with new ideas and here it is, waiting you in the fridge, something not too high in ABV and flavorful. It is a Blisss. The ssss sound of can opening and joy and happiness melting in one. You don't have to run to enjoy it to the fullest, but it's a pretty neat match.
This triple IPA beast is a total submersion into the depth of hoppiness. Feel the pressure of high ABV, huge citrusy aroma, immense bitterness, it’s a buds scraper of 80 IBU. If you feel ready to push the limits of hops tolerance, jump in and join the ride on this Blue Yellow Submarine. Are you ready?
If you paid attention to the fact that this is the easiest beer we've ever made, you are right, it's only 2.8% ABV, but this wasn't our aim. We've decided to make a series of fruited Berliner Weisse with lactose for body, and for absolutely fantastic mouthfeel we introduced nitrogen. No, it's not a special nitrogen tap, it's addition on the maturation stage. This was the technic we wanted to try. And for the mousy, creamy head we've named it Schaum which is "foam" n German. But enough technicalities, believe us, it's amazing.
Collab with our friends from Tsypa, mountain spring water, Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial, Pekko hops, 50 IBU classic. To make your staying at home at least bearable. Cheers!
Confessions are not only about love, but yeah, that's the season now. We will throw in some other confessions. First we will confess that this beer was inspired by red wine, that's why contains grapes, wine yeast and we even aged it on American oak. Others will follow: Anton, our head brewer, loves folk music; Lena, our yeast whisperer has dreamed of being a poetess instead; Artem from sales has caught fish from fish tank in kindergarten, Lana is afraid of the dark. And Dmytro confessed his love to Yulia and said "Will you marry me?" And she said "yes".
We don't urge you to choose between red and blue pill, but ask you to dive into the sea of ripe mango and hops - Citra, Amarillo, Mosaic, Simcoe - of this vibrant, intense DIPA, brewed in collaboration with our Polish colleagues from Browar Raduga. Andrzei is a big movie fan, just as our Vasyl, so the hommage was inevitable. This version was brewed in January in Kyiv, and Polish part of collab took part in December in Warsaw. We are quite happy with result, are you?
We planned to get our Sanurai's Daughter few sisters for the longest time. But we couldn't get the right tea, or find more interesting rice variety, and here it just clicked. We've played with wine yeast and champagne yeast already, and now sake yeast. There was no other options for it's usage. We avoided adding ginger this time so no to obstruct the fine aroma of the yeast. So welcome the younger sister, sake version.
Winter fruit teas became an inspiration for this beer, but as with borsch recipes of those are unlimited. Arrowwood tea was too hardcore even for us, so we've decided to brew a sea buck-thorn and ginger variant. This tea is often considered a great help for colds or preventing other microbes from getting at you during humid and cold season. Bright fruity tartness and light bite of ginger (added on cold side to avoid the flavor of boiled ginger which we re not fond of) make for a great colorful spot amidst greyness of this winter.
Sometimes beer gets its name long before final maturation, sometimes during the process of brewing, and it happens as with this one that we have not a slightest idea of the name just before the initial tasting. So when we've got a first sip of this quad after all technical measurements we've been surprised. It turned out to be beautiful and dangerous, well hidden alcohol, rich malty body, typical Belgian profile. We are cocky enough to think that Trappists would have approved of this one. So we've named it Rad. Rad as cool and awesome.
Trio of Citra, Mosaic, Ella and triple-hopping (hot and twice cold) instantly throws you into the turbulence zone, or rather DIPAzone. Round, full-bodied, with distinct hoppy profile, engulfed into tropical fruits and citrus, this is almost ideal salvation these cold and dark days when all you can think is how to finish all the tasks and survive the holidays. This is it, your perfect hoppy remedy.
DOK Brewing loves experiments as much as we do. An interesting not too famous style? Yes, please! New ingredients? Bring them on! So we brought them Ukrainian honey and they brought us Belgian one. Tropical stout is a funny branch of foreign stouts which travelled to islands and became popular in slightly changed form. On new lands the style grew its own roots, anchored in alternative sugars such as cane sugar or molasses. So the beer was quite strong, but still easy-drinkable. And caring hands of our Ukrainian-Belgian group of gardeners made it bloom.
One more cousin of our W-Saisons. This time it wears raspberry dress. Juicy, brights raspberry from nearby farm gives it the impression of summer sun and apparent fruity sweetness, though the base dry as bone. For our W (wild) series we brew a mixed grain wort and let Saison yeast have their fun first, and added a bit of wild touch later, just a bit of bretts, to not overwhelm this delicate, crisp, hayish profile. After almost a year we adorn it with fruits or leave as is.
Our W (wild) series grows bit by bit. It grows slowly, because you can't hurry beer like this. We brew a mixed grain wort and let Saison yeast have their fun first, and added a bit of wild touch later, just a bit of bretts, to not overwhelm this delicate, crisp, hayish profile. And after almost a year we adorned this beauty with cherries. If you ever helped your grandma to pick up cherries on the farm, you'll remember that day over a glass of W4.