Bent Paddle Brewing - Wilderness Tuxedo: Blood Orange and Papaya

Wild Tux Blood Orange Papaya is a beer brewed in the style of the Berliner Weisse. Our Wild Tux range uses a similar recipe where we use 2-row wheat, white wheat, unmalted wheat and carafoam to create this light, low alcohol base beer which we then acidify with Lactobacillus bacteria. Once the desired acidity is reached, we stop the acidification process by boiling and killing the lactobacteria in our kettle (hence the name "Kettle Sour"). Once the beer is in the fermenter, we use our American Ale yeast and let the fermentation process begin. On this particular variety, we added blood orange and papaya puree to the fermenter during fermentation. Once fermentation was complete, we added orange peel to the fermenter and allowed the beer to recirculate in the tank. When the beer was finally ready for centrifugation we ran the machine at a lower drum speed to leave more of the color and flavor of the fruit and peel in the end product. Expect this version of the Wild Tux to have an overwhelming orange flavor in the foreground, while papaya plays nicely in the background. Blood orange is also the dominant flavor when drinking this beer, and the papaya is more pronounced than on the nose. The addition of orange peel enhances the orange notes, which remind me of an orange cream ice cream. One can also detect a hint of the malt profile hiding behind the fruity aromas. The flavors in this Wild Tux play together very nicely, making this beer very drinkable. Expect medium astringency on the palette