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Seraphina Barrel Aged Scotch Ale

$39.00

Seraphina Barrel Aged Scotch Ale is a rich, smooth, nutty, strong ale that has been aged for ten months in French oak wine barrels that previously held New Zealand Whisky Co’s Double-Wood Whisky for many years. Like all our beers, it is made with New Zealand-grown malt and hops.

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About This Beer

Seraphina Barrel Aged Scotch Ale is a deep amber strong ale that was aged more than 10 months in 6 whisky casks that held a very special NZ single malt whisky. The resulting beer is rich, malty, and smooth, with notes of dried fruits, raisins, Christmas cake, and tawny port.

Seraphina Barrel Aged Scotch Ale will age gracefully for many years, but are fabulous right now. Do not serve cold! Treat it like you would a port or red wine and serve it in an elegant glass. The butterfly on the label is the New Zealand Coastal Copper Butterfly and the name ‘Seraphina’ means ‘fire angel’. Only 2304 bottles were produced and each one is hand-numbered.

Want to try more than one variety? Choose 3 different barrel-aged beers!

Beer Details

Barrel-Aged
Red Amber
10% ABV
50 IBU

Ingredients: Water, NZ Barley, NZ Hops, Yeast.

Brewers Notes

Kereru obtained 140 unique oak barrels from the NZ Whisky Collection, a company founded around the stock of the former Wilson's Distillery in NZ. The stock was lost for many years and was then found and the whisky had aged to perfection. Some of the casks were 60 year-old American oak ex-bourbon barrels which contributed vanilla, oak and hints of maple to the whisky. Some of casks were French and American oak ex-red wine barrels from Mills Reef which contributed red wine and port notes to the whisky. The casks arrived in small lots as they were decanted of whisky, and were wet and sloshing with a bit of magical spirits still inside. Each cask can impart its whisky character into a beer only once. After that the cask can be used again, but will only offer oak barrel character. This makes all our whisky barrel-aged beers unique and never to be repeated. Each bottle is hand numbered.

Food Matching

Cheese: blue, aged gouda, sharp aged cheddar

Mains: risotto, mu-shu pork, beef Wellington, venison, lamb

Dessert: fresh figs, fruit cake, steamed pudding