Vinoteca, the London based group of wine bars, restaurants and wine shops, has collaborated with The Beak Brewery and Burgundy winemaker Mark Haisma to create a limited-edition farmhouse-style beer, named Rodney and The Horse Meets The Beak.
Aged in a single oak Viognier barrel, the new beer will be the latest addition to their very own Rodney and The Horse portfolio, which currently includes a single vineyard Riesling and Shiraz from the Clare Valley in South Australia. The beer will be available on the drinks list at each Vinoteca and a surprise bar snack will be thrown in, which pairs fantastically with the beer.
The man behind The Beak Brewery is Daniel Tapper who travels the country creating seasonal, unpasteurised & food-centric beers in collaboration with some of Britain’s best artisan producers. He calls the authentic ‘saison’ style farmhouse beer he brewed for Vinoteca ‘a beer for wine lovers’, made using ale yeast from the French-Belgian border, and designed, developed and tested in a 100-litre nano-brewery.
Tapper aged the beer for three months in a 300-litre oak barrel, donated by award-winning winemaker Mark Haisma after having used it to age his incredible Viognier white wine. It’s an unfiltered beer which then underwent a further six weeks of bottle conditioning.
What is produced is an authentic ‘biere de garde’ – a French, farmhouse-style beer famed for its deep burnished gold colour, spicy flavours, refreshing acidity and complex aromas.
With a quirky label designed by East London artist Peter Dobbin, the team at Vinoteca are incredibly proud of their first venture into beer – a deep yet refreshing one-of-a-kind saison with subtle characters of cider, oak, elderflower and apricot.
