Our second time releasing a coffee beer after our first foray in 2024's Angucho. Aceh is a single barrel bottling of golden beer, brewed in November 2022. The wort was made using a turbid mash, including an inadvisable quantity of caramelised barley malt and aged hops.

We initially set about selecting a coffee that we thought would best marry with our beer, before delving into the barrels to find its partner. After extensive tasting round the cellar, a barrel was selected to complement the addition of an Indonesian coffee from the Aceh region of north Sumatra, made using an anaerobic honey fermentation process.

The coffee fermenting naturally on one side of the world, while our beer fermented naturally on the other, destined to meet in a French-made glass bottle under a Portugese cork...

The whole beans were steeped in the beer for just a few hours before filling into bottles for one further fermentation. The finished beer has been darkened to amber by the coffee. It has been endowed with a mix of tropical fruit, floral and dark sugar notes from the coffee. On the palate, it is relatively full for the ABV, thanks to the large dose of caramal malts. Which is cut by a firm acidity which carries the coffee's natural funk.

The coffee was sourced and roasted half a mile from our brewery by Noni's Coffee roasters.