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Cassels & Sons Medicinal Ale

Cassels & Sons Brewing Company
Christchurch, Canterbury
Beer style: Flavored - Other
Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024

Common descriptors are
We call our Winter brew medicinal because it contains generous quantities of elderberries and honey. Elderberries grow all around the world and their berries are widely used for a variety of medicinal purposes - mostly to combat flu. Around March, when the elder berries are looking ripe, we harvest them from an Joe’s uncles land in Little River - this is usually a family outing with kids and dogs and a picnic. Once the berries have been gathered in used malt sacks they are taken back to the brewery and frozen. On brew day the stems are removed by hand. Our head brewer, Nigel Mahoney adds them to the brew right at the end of the boil along with the honey, so as much as possible of their flavour and aroma is retained.

The berries give a rich earthy aroma and flavour as well as a nice dark reddish colour to the beer. The honeydew and beech honey adds a sweetness and helps us get a mighty 6.7% alcohol content. Cassels and sons medicinal is an enjoyable strong lager with fruity earthy notes and a smooth finish. Creating this brew is a lot of extra work for us but its a beer we are all proud of - its like capturing the goodness of Summer and preserving it for the dreary months of Winter.

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Cassels & Sons Medicinal Ale

Cassels & Sons Brewing Company
Christchurch, Canterbury
Beer style: Flavored - Other
Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024

Common descriptors are
We call our Winter brew medicinal because it contains generous quantities of elderberries and honey. Elderberries grow all around the world and their berries are widely used for a variety of medicinal purposes - mostly to combat flu. Around March, when the elder berries are looking ripe, we harvest them from an Joe’s uncles land in Little River - this is usually a family outing with kids and dogs and a picnic. Once the berries have been gathered in used malt sacks they are taken back to the brewery and frozen. On brew day the stems are removed by hand. Our head brewer, Nigel Mahoney adds them to the brew right at the end of the boil along with the honey, so as much as possible of their flavour and aroma is retained.

The berries give a rich earthy aroma and flavour as well as a nice dark reddish colour to the beer. The honeydew and beech honey adds a sweetness and helps us get a mighty 6.7% alcohol content. Cassels and sons medicinal is an enjoyable strong lager with fruity earthy notes and a smooth finish. Creating this brew is a lot of extra work for us but its a beer we are all proud of - its like capturing the goodness of Summer and preserving it for the dreary months of Winter.

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Cassels & Sons Medicinal Ale

Cassels & Sons Brewing Company
Christchurch, Canterbury
Beer style: Flavored - Other
Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024

Common descriptors are
We call our Winter brew medicinal because it contains generous quantities of elderberries and honey. Elderberries grow all around the world and their berries are widely used for a variety of medicinal purposes - mostly to combat flu. Around March, when the elder berries are looking ripe, we harvest them from an Joe’s uncles land in Little River - this is usually a family outing with kids and dogs and a picnic. Once the berries have been gathered in used malt sacks they are taken back to the brewery and frozen. On brew day the stems are removed by hand. Our head brewer, Nigel Mahoney adds them to the brew right at the end of the boil along with the honey, so as much as possible of their flavour and aroma is retained.

The berries give a rich earthy aroma and flavour as well as a nice dark reddish colour to the beer. The honeydew and beech honey adds a sweetness and helps us get a mighty 6.7% alcohol content. Cassels and sons medicinal is an enjoyable strong lager with fruity earthy notes and a smooth finish. Creating this brew is a lot of extra work for us but its a beer we are all proud of - its like capturing the goodness of Summer and preserving it for the dreary months of Winter.


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Cassels & Sons Medicinal Ale

Cassels & Sons Brewing Company
Christchurch, Canterbury
Beer style: Flavored - Other
Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024

Common descriptors are
We call our Winter brew medicinal because it contains generous quantities of elderberries and honey. Elderberries grow all around the world and their berries are widely used for a variety of medicinal purposes - mostly to combat flu. Around March, when the elder berries are looking ripe, we harvest them from an Joe’s uncles land in Little River - this is usually a family outing with kids and dogs and a picnic. Once the berries have been gathered in used malt sacks they are taken back to the brewery and frozen. On brew day the stems are removed by hand. Our head brewer, Nigel Mahoney adds them to the brew right at the end of the boil along with the honey, so as much as possible of their flavour and aroma is retained.

The berries give a rich earthy aroma and flavour as well as a nice dark reddish colour to the beer. The honeydew and beech honey adds a sweetness and helps us get a mighty 6.7% alcohol content. Cassels and sons medicinal is an enjoyable strong lager with fruity earthy notes and a smooth finish. Creating this brew is a lot of extra work for us but its a beer we are all proud of - its like capturing the goodness of Summer and preserving it for the dreary months of Winter.

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Cassels & Sons Medicinal Ale

Cassels & Sons Brewing Company
Christchurch, Canterbury
Beer style: Flavored - Other
Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024

Common descriptors are
We call our Winter brew medicinal because it contains generous quantities of elderberries and honey. Elderberries grow all around the world and their berries are widely used for a variety of medicinal purposes - mostly to combat flu. Around March, when the elder berries are looking ripe, we harvest them from an Joe’s uncles land in Little River - this is usually a family outing with kids and dogs and a picnic. Once the berries have been gathered in used malt sacks they are taken back to the brewery and frozen. On brew day the stems are removed by hand. Our head brewer, Nigel Mahoney adds them to the brew right at the end of the boil along with the honey, so as much as possible of their flavour and aroma is retained.

The berries give a rich earthy aroma and flavour as well as a nice dark reddish colour to the beer. The honeydew and beech honey adds a sweetness and helps us get a mighty 6.7% alcohol content. Cassels and sons medicinal is an enjoyable strong lager with fruity earthy notes and a smooth finish. Creating this brew is a lot of extra work for us but its a beer we are all proud of - its like capturing the goodness of Summer and preserving it for the dreary months of Winter.

ratebeer

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Cassels & Sons Medicinal Ale

Cassels & Sons Brewing Company
Christchurch, Canterbury
Beer style: Flavored - Other
Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024

Common descriptors are
We call our Winter brew medicinal because it contains generous quantities of elderberries and honey. Elderberries grow all around the world and their berries are widely used for a variety of medicinal purposes - mostly to combat flu. Around March, when the elder berries are looking ripe, we harvest them from an Joe’s uncles land in Little River - this is usually a family outing with kids and dogs and a picnic. Once the berries have been gathered in used malt sacks they are taken back to the brewery and frozen. On brew day the stems are removed by hand. Our head brewer, Nigel Mahoney adds them to the brew right at the end of the boil along with the honey, so as much as possible of their flavour and aroma is retained.

The berries give a rich earthy aroma and flavour as well as a nice dark reddish colour to the beer. The honeydew and beech honey adds a sweetness and helps us get a mighty 6.7% alcohol content. Cassels and sons medicinal is an enjoyable strong lager with fruity earthy notes and a smooth finish. Creating this brew is a lot of extra work for us but its a beer we are all proud of - its like capturing the goodness of Summer and preserving it for the dreary months of Winter.