Facebook post by Hop Hideout Beer Shop

We just reopened our Hop Hideout doors on Saturday 10th January and it was brilliant to see so many of you pass by. We’ll be doing lots of restocking next week, so don’t worry! We did however pop #onthetaps this amazing mixed fermentation, nectarine wild ale from @crossoverblendery 🍑 “Crossover Blendery is located at Lannock Manor Farm in rural North Hertfordshire, UK. A beautiful, quiet place surrounded by rolling arable fields and small pockets of pasture. Founded by George and Charlie in 2018, Crossover Blendery is focussed on producing complex beers which challenge and intrigue the drinker. The beers age in old French oak barrels for many years. And the fermentations are spontaneous, meaning it is only wild yeast and bacteria which operate in these ales.” 🍺 Persia is a blend of 1, 2 and 3 year old golden ales brewed with malted barley and raw wheat. Spontaneously fermented and matured in neutral French oak barrels. Then refermented on Diamond Bright nectarines grown in Kent, UK. It’s tart, with juicy peach, citrus and earthy funk notes. Deliciously complex! This January we’re having a focus on breweries with a passion for mixed fermentation beers aka Mixed Fermanuary 🎉 Come by and discover something new, or support breweries and beers you already love 🙏❤️ Mixed Fermentation is a brewing process using multiple microorganisms think e.g. yeast plus bacteria or brewer’s yeast plus wild yeast or a mix of naturally occurring wild microorganisms. Creating unique and complex flavours. Microbes often involved include strains of Saccharomyces (brewer’s yeast), Brettanomyces (wild yeast),Lactobacillus (lactic acid bacteria), and Pediococcus (lactic acid bacteria). If you want to get really in-depth we recommend these places for starters ➡️ @milk_the_funk_podcast Wiki @brewyourownmag The Sour Hour podcast on @brewingnetwork Various articles on @pelliclemag 📚 UK Breweries specialising in mixed ferm beers include Crossover Blendery, Burning Sky, Mills, Sobremesa, Wilderness, The Kernel, Holy Goat, Balance Brewing & Blending, Pastore, Torrside, Saint Mars of the Desert, Abbeydale, Fyne Origins Brewing, Siren, and Cloudwater, amongst others.