RAMA (2024)

Two years since our first release of a RAMA white label blend, this bottling is made from a blend of Rival apricots and Red Haven peaches. This is the same fruit blend we use in Transmigration, if you were around for those releases. This blend is more apricot heavy because of how the yield was in the 2024 season, we used every apricot and peach we got from Nathan at RAMA for this beer. In fact, we went so far as to rack the peach beer onto the spent apricots a second time to emphasize that character. This was possible because the apricots ripen in July, whereas the peaches we take in late August, so the two components were both made separately at very high fruit rates and then after transferring we racked the peach beer onto the apricots to continue macerating and refermenting.

The result really showcasing the fruit acidity of the apricots, which you normally only seen in A Hex Against the World, but with the soft and floral peach character backing it up (to be clear, there's more peaches than apricots in this, but normally we'd use a 1 apricot to maybe 2 or 3 part peach blend).

The beer has so much fruit that again it has somewhat poor head retention, although better than the last RAMA. In addition to mixed cultures often containing fermenters which break down the foam-aiding compounds in beer, sometimes when you push the fruit levels that can be exacerbated. The beer is massively aromatic and if you agitate the beer in the glass you will see the carbonation rise and a ring will form in the glass. You'll get the best head retention if you use a clean glass which has been rinsed with water right before you pour into it (a side note that glasses out of the dishwasher that has rinse-aid or similar will always be head-retention defeating).

Bottling date: 10/03/2024
Conditioned with: Organic cane sugar.
Cellar: best before 2027