Kiesbye Naturbrauerei - Waldbier 2019 Elsbeere

The 2019er Waldbier presents itself with a robust character of the dark malt, fruitiness of the yeasts and fruits as well as with tonic-like tartness and freshness of the hops. The natural and unfiltered creative beer, which was clarified by a very long cold storage, can mature over several years in the cellar. The brewing ceremony took place in the Kiesbye Naturbrauerei in Obertrum near Salzburg in June. The beautiful Else, also called Elsbeere, Oschitzn or Adletzbeere, is a nearly forgotten tree of deciduous trees. They were harvested in the Federal Forest District Breitenfurt in an oak-beech forest west of Vienna, where the Elsbeere finds its natural range. The fully ripe, rust-red fruits were shock-frozen after the harvest, thoughtfully thawed and processed into mus. After a short fermentation with tree-own wild yeasts, the highly aromatic fruit pulp of the wort was added to the brewhouse. For 300 hectoliters of forest beer, a total of around 30 kilograms of the precious fruits were harvested.