Old Wives Ales Get Frukt

TASTING NOTES

Get Frukt (it’s Swedish for Fruit, we promise!) is a kettle-soured 3.5% Berliner Weisse with a blend of three fruits….blueberry, passionfruit and raspberry.  A true shed-series release, co-owner Shannon had a party for his 40th coming up and wanted to exploit his passion for brewing sour beer, so cultured up a big batch of Berliner Weisse on his home brew kit, split it across 3 kegs and added one of those fruits into each.  Whilst each beer on its own was delightful, something inspired him to try a blend of all 3 in the one glass, and Get Frukt was born!  The fruit combination makes the beer taste like a classic “Fruit Tingle” cocktail.  We first released this as a one-off for a summer beer festival, and our beloved punters have been hassling us to get it into cans ever since…so here you go!

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

Starting out as home-brewers, the boys at Old Wives Ales commandeered soup pots for kit brews and watched on as plastic tubs of murky liquid burped and bubbled in their sheds. It was yellow, it was fizzy, but it wasn’t good. Not in the beginning. But they were learning. They have each earned a first rate home-brewing education in exploding bottles, dead yeast and beer that tasted more like cardboard than malt, taking heart from the fact that slowly but surely, the beer was getting better.

DID YOU KNOW?

Justin Spicer, co-founder of Old Wives Ales and also the Merri Mashers, discovered his interest in home brewing when a friend invited him to a “brew on premise” venue. He learnt the basics in brewing that night which ignited his passion for craft beer and brewing. Justin soon learned that there were several home brew clubs around Melbourne, however there were not any in the Northern Suburbs. It was this realisation that inspired him to become the inaugural president of a new home brew club two years ago. Merri Mashers now has over 75 members and is one of Victoria’s biggest home brew clubs today.