Futtle Spelt Beer with Sweet Woodruff

Spelt Beer with Sweet Woodruff

 

Futtle in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Speciality Grain - Spelt Regular
Score
6.79
ABV: 3.5% IBU: - Ticks: 2
This pale, aromatic, Belgian-style wheat beer is light and refreshing.
It’s brewed with organic whole spelt grains, as well as organic wheat, oats and floor-malted barley, followed by two additions of organic whole leaf Rakau hops for balance and bitterness.
We added foraged woodruff at the end of the hop boil to impart the plant’s characteristic almond, nutty, hay-like sweetness to the beer.
It’s a little nod to the Berliner tradition of adding green woodruff syrup to wheat beers. Traditionally the Berlin beers would have been soured and the syrup was a way to sweeten them in the bar when they were served.
Our spelt beer is not sour, but we’ve used the aromatic flavour of the woodruff to create something reminiscent of these delicious, traditional beers.
Raw, unfiltered, unfined. Vegan.

Ingredients:
Water: Borehole
Malt: Organic Spelt, Wheat, Floor-Malted Barley, Oats
Hops: Organic Rakau
Yeast: House blend
 

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6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours hazy yellow gold with a short-lived thin white head. Aromas of light citrus, nutty malt. Taste is light sweet, grassy, faint malt. Light sweet finish.
Tried on 28 Jan 2026 at 09:57

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
330ml can from Futtle website - hazy pale yellow body with a short lived white top. Slightly watery start, rather sweet citrus tang with a bit of herby lemon background. Sweetened a bit by the woodruff, reminds you of a Berliner Weiss with the green syrup.
Tried from Can on 14 Jan 2026 at 19:48