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Alba

Alba
Price: £3.30
Description
This Beer is a dark triple fermented beer of 7.5% abv. It is rich warming and certainly wood-like.

Alba is Gaellic for Scotland and is a beer made by using pine sprigs and spruce shoots instead of hops. Pine Ales were introduced to Scotland by the Vikings and were popular until the end of the nineteenth century when the hop began to dominate. Captain Cook used this style of Ale on long sea voyages it can have medicinal properties, preventing scurvy. Cook introduced the style of beer to New Zealand. Shetland Spruce ale was said to stimulate animal instincts and give you twins.
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