Fernet Stout 22°

The production of this extra strong black ale started in the second half of the 18th century in London’s Thrale’s Brewery specifically for export to Russian royal court of Catherine II. Great. It is generally believed that London brewers must had modified the standard Stout recipe to withstand the thousand-mile jurney to Russia via the Baltic Sea. Our inspiration for the development of this beer was Italian herbal liquor Fernet. Italian monks were experimenting with herbs in order to create medicine for digestion and stomach ache. Original recepie for Fernet contains of dozen herbs , orange and grapefruit peel. We were looking for the composition which would comply with complexity of our Russian Imperial Stout. The herbs choosen by us Were macerated for coulpe of weeks after which we added them directly to secondary fermetation While That results to our Fernet Russian Imperial Stout.