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London based
Bimber Distillery and Brew By Numbers
brewery announce their first
collaboration beer - 64|Imperial Stout.
Brew By Numbers an exploratory and
modern brewery which has been hand-crafting beer in
South London since 2012 has teamed up
with Bimber distillery in London which
was founded in 2015.
In their first collaboration with Bimber
Distillery, Brew By Numbers has used
their classic Imperial Stout recipe to
showcase Bimber's whisky. The beer
started with a complex malt bill,
including Golden Promise, oat, Cara,
chocolate, roast and smoked malt
alongside muscovado sugar in the boil,
contributing fermentable sugars, colour
and a rich and rounded body.
This big, sweet and roasty stout was
left to condition in tank for two
months, building a smooth and complex
profile. Oak chips were soaked in
Bimber’s ex-bourbon oak cask single malt
whisky, absorbing their distinctive
fruit-forward whisky profile and
contributing notes of sweet caramel,
rich vanilla and subtle spice. These
chips were added cold-side
(post-fermentation) to the base stout
along with organic cacao nibs,
Madagascan vanilla pods and washed
Colombian coffee from a top London
roastery. The resulting beer is said to
be incredibly complex, rich and
well-balanced with the distinct Bimber
whisky profile.
The first beer, 64|Imperial Stout –
Bimber, will be available on the Brew By
Numbers webshop from 26th August for
delivery across the UK. Brew By Numbers
tells said that "this collaboration is
an incredibly exciting project for them,
providing the opportunity to work with
one of the finest distilleries in the
country and we can’t wait for you to try
this first beer".
Brew By Numbers commented: "This release
is the first step in a series of
collaborations with Bimber. Having taken
several casks of their first fill ex
bourbon single malt, we decided to age
an Imperial Stout in these incredible
vessels. They are currently resting in
our Peckham barrel store for release
later in the year – a huge stout with a
pure barrel-aged whisky expression. Once
these are emptied for packaging, the
casks will return to Bimber where they
will be used for an upcoming project
inside the walls of the North Acton
distillery".
If you fancy trying the London
distillery's impressive young single
malt whisky you will find it available
from specialist online whisky retailers
such as
The Whisky Exchange and
Master of Malt
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