Blackjack Brewing Company Squalor

The last of our quarterly lager releases, we simply had to do a Schwarzbier aka Black Lager. We began with building up the malt base - additions of Amber and munich malt give a strong biscuity base alongside an addition of dehusked carafa roast malt which brings lots of colour without too much astringency. Together thi

The last of our quarterly lager releases, we simply had to do a Schwarzbier aka Black Lager. We began with building up the malt base - additions of Amber and Munich malt give a strong biscuity base alongside an addition of dehusked carafa roast malt which brings lots of colour without too much astringency.

Together this gives a malty base with notes of cold brew coffee and bittersweet chocolate without being too 'dark'. A Hop combo of Perle and Phoenix brings traditional lager hop characteristics to the beer but less grassy and more spice and tobacco.

Cold fermented over 2 weeks at 11C to produce delicate lager yeast notes before step cooling down to -1C for 2 weeks to crisp up and become clean, easy drinking.

440ml can, 5.0% ABV