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Fraoch

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Price: £4.05

Description

This beer is floral and light, it is 5% abv, a dry fluffy beer that can be good with food. It lacks the hop bitterness and tastes distinctly of heather.

Scotland has always been known as a nation fond of alcohol, though usually due to its wide range of single malt whiskies produced in distilleries across the country. In recent years however Scotland’s solid reputation as a brewing nation has been well publicised. Beers from Scottish Breweries have won CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain two years running.

The History of brewing dates back far beyond using hops to give beer a bitter taste. Bruce and Scott Williams opened the Fraoch brewery in Strathaven near Glasgow in 1994 where they decided to re-introduce some of the ancient Scottish brewing methods for Ale.

The beer they produced was from was the idea of adding heather to the malted barley instead of hops. Heather has grown wild in Scotland for many thousands of years making it a far better ingredient than the hop which has not. The recipe the Williams brothers used was found on an archaeological dig and is the oldest surviving beer style in the world dating from at least 2000 B.C. Leann Fraoch is Gaellic for Heather Ale.