Traquair House Brewery

Why it matters

The equipment is the record: the brewhouse had been sealed and forgotten for over a century, and the beer is fermented in the original oak. It is the closest thing in Britain to a working eighteenth-century brewery rather than a reconstruction of one.

Details

Reference beers

• Traquair House Ale7.2% ABV

  A Scottish strong ale fermented in eighteenth-century oak vessels rediscovered in 1965.

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Styles it is associated with

• Wee heavy — A strong, intensely malty Scottish ale with deep caramel and dried fruit and almost no hop presence.

Traditions

• British cask ale — Beer that completes its fermentation in the container it is served from and is dispensed without added gas, at cellar rather than fridge temperature.