This weekend Reina Mora Brewing Co. and Cervecería del Callejón will launch their Bière de Garde Style collaboration beer: SUSÚA
Bière de Garde is a “sister” style to Saison, that was developed in France where brewers would use available ingredients to make a stronger beer that would keep until the spring. As breweries became more industrial a shift to lager/cleaner yeast occurred in the French tradition of this brew
For their SUSÚA Reina Mora Brewing Co. and Cervecería del Callejón used lager yeast and was lagered / stored/ “Garde” for 6 weeks. The brewers say that the beer “Leans heavy on malt flavors from Pilsner and Munich malts. Solid hop aroma and medium bitterness in the palate with a slightly fruity/lemony finish”.
SUSÚA was naturally carbonated by “spunding”, which is the process of keeping the beer under pressure from a certain point and on during the fermentation. This helps the beer to keep a lot of flavors/aromas that normally are “blown off” during fermentation. Some aromatics as a result of fermentation can be perceived in the nose and flavor.
SUSÚA has an ABV of 7.2%
To mark the release of SUSÚA there will be 2 special launch events
April 15: Reina Mora Brewing Co. Sabana Grande from 2pm
The event will feature a welcome beer, 3 course beer and pizza pairing from El Domo which have been created to pair with SUSÚA and other beers from Reina Mora Brewing and Cervecería del Callejón.
During the tasting Carlos Ayala from Reina Mora Brewing Co. and Antonio Muñiz from Cervecería del Callejón will be providing an educational talk on Biere de Garde, Saison and Farmhouse ales In addition to the pairing, El Domo will be there throughout the event so that you can compare their pizzas
Music will be in the hands of DJ Eduardo Somoza (2:00 pm) and Jazz por Barrecampo (7:00 pm)
Tickets for this event cost $45pp and are available at EventBrite
April 23, Cervecería del Callejón, Old San Juan
More details to follow
Photo by Reina Mora Brewing Co.
