LUNA & FUEGO

BARREL-AGED MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE STOUT

Luna & Fuego Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout (11.9%) is the perfect winter sipper. We started with a whopping imperial stout with cocoa, cinnamon and vanilla, then spiked it with a trio of chilies – sweet ancho, tangy guajillo and smoky chipotle. Zing! Once fermented, the beer was transferred to Woody Creek Rye Whiskey barrels to age gracefully for eight months and soak up some of those caramel and vanilla notes from the barrels.
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The beer pours a thick, viscous black. The vanilla and cinnamon lend notes of horchata, while the cocoa and chili marry to create a decadently sweet and lingering spicy flavour. It’s impossible to tell where the warming alcohol begins and the chili heat ends. Did we mention it’s smooth? Ridiculously so.

CHAPTER 2

SHERRY BARREL-AGED BARLEY WINE

So closes our second chapter…
We have lovingly cellared our Now & Then barley wine in Pedro Ximenez sherry casks for 10 months. This 11.9% beer is wildly complex, with all sorts of malty goodness going on. It has big notes of raisin, dried fruit and caramel with underlying notes of coconut, vanilla and oak. It is full-bodied and luscious and smooth and chewy and is tasting incredible right now - but like our Chapter 1 beers it will continue to age gracefully for years to come.

STYLE: Sherry Barrel-Aged Wee Heavy

FLAVOUR PROFILE: Big smooth slow sipper

HOPS: Magnum

ABV: 11.9

IBU: 40