It’s Dundee-based Holy Goat Brewing’s fourth anniversary month so, appropriately, it has four new beers on offer.
Foehammer 2024 is an 11.2% ABV imperial stout, inspired by an 18th century recipe for Courage Imperial Stout. It features large quantities of charred and roasted malts, balanced by layers of dark crystal malts and a touch of smoke.
Version four of Damnation IPA comes in at 6% ABV and is heavily hopped with Citra, Azacca, and El Dorado. Brewed in honour of Damnation festival, a huge metal gathering, it utilises Norwegian kveik yeast.
Holy Mountain (6.2% ABV) is inspired by the Belgian kriek-style sour beer. It’s a blend of two of Holy Goat’s favourite golden sour base beers, both brewed with local Scottish barley, wheat, and oats, and fermented with multiple Brettanomyces and bacteria strains. It has been aged for two months on more than 450kg of whole Stevnsbær sour cherries, sourced from the orchards on the Frederiksdal estate, used to produce award-winning Danish cherry wine.
Finally, there’s Cult of Arduinna, a collaboration with Women in Beer. Inspired by Flanders reds of old, the 8.4% ABV brew is blended from sour red ale, combining 70% provision strength ‘young’ stock beer, aged four months, with around 30% ‘mature’ stock beer, aged in well-used red wine casks for an average of one year.
