North Brewing Co. North X Northern Bloc Ice Cream Ube Sour

We’ve been hard at work with Northern Bloc’s technical chefs making a beer that replicates Northern Bloc’s Ube Ice Cream, it’s soft, cold, incredibly smooth, full bodied, colourful and vegan!We started out with a conversation with Northern Bloc, they Ube straight to the table. What’s Ube? It’s a purple yam aka Dioscore

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What’s Ube? It’s a purple yam aka Dioscorea Alata, but that doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as nicely… What does it taste like? Vanilla! 

A more nutty kind of vanilla though. Pilsner malt and flaked oats make up the grist, and North had a lot of room in the mash tun for a lot of oats and they squeezed out as much of that delicious pale smoothness as possible! Ube was added to the whirlpool and it let loose its incredible colour and beautiful flavours and aromas! Fermented with Philly Sour yeast for a gentle touch of tartness with fresh vanilla added during fermentation making for sumptuous smooth and thick super squishy rounded vanilla custard topped with crunchy hazelnut. Is it ice cream or is it beer? We don’t know where to place it, other than in a glass on a hot summer’s day.

North say “We’ve been hard at work with Northern Bloc’s technical chefs, creating a beer that’s… purple! Ok, it’s not all about that colour, but it is hard to take your eye away from it.”

 

Made to replicate Northern Bloc’s Ube Ice Cream, it’s soft, cold, incredibly smooth, full bodied, purple and vegan!”

3.2%

440ml can

Contains barley and oats. Vegan.