Пиво Jumis - Malanka

How many odd ingredients can one use in a single beer? How exciting can a beer with these ingredients can be? Well, it is up to you to decide, but here is the story. A while ago, we brewed a Belgian-style witbier, not a refreshing one, but super-rich and heavy. Right from the beginning we started playing with crazy ingredients – we added some fragrant and fresh rose petals to the kettle, then spiced the brew with strange and beautiful pippali peppers (well known in Ancient Greece and The Roman Empire, but later displaced from general use by black pepper and chili pepper, now a rarity) from faraway South-East Asia. We fermented this beer with classic Belgian witbier yeast and then conditioned atop gentle amount of Bergamot puree. Some might say, that could be enough for a beer, but we went further and aged it in a freshly emptied apple brandy barrel. After more than a year of slow maturation, we bottled it and further conditioned for that soft and fluffy cloud of tiny bubbles. What we got is a thing of beauty, exercise in restraint and balance, despite being loaded with quaint ingredients. This is a golden-to-copper colored elixir, which might turn you into a completely different being, so please be careful, but please also be curious enough to try it.