A sister beer to our wild fermented Golden Strong, The Dickens. A top fermented very strong black beer that sits somewhere between a Belgian Dark Strong ale and an Imperial Vatted Porter.

The wort is made from barley, wheat, brown malt, and dark molasses sugar. A large quantity of European hops are added during the boil to add herbal bitter flavours. Noire is brewed in the summer and fermented with a fruit-forward ale yeast in our coolship at ambient temperatures. The fermentation is allowed to naturally rise in temperature with the warmth of the active yeast, producing rich boozy aromatics. Once this primary fermentation starts to subside, the nascent beer is racked into large oak casks with our indigenous wild yeast and bacteria to mature in the cold of winter. They slowly work away at the remaining sugars, producing a drier and more elegant drink, all the while tempering the heat of the warm fermentation and releasing all manner of new aromatic interests.

Finally, the beer is dry-hopped with whole-leaf hops and bottle conditioned for several months before release, around a year from the original brew date.