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Bristol beer and coffee collaboration
In St Werburgh’s, if the wind is blowing in the right direction, you can smell the hops and barley from the Wiper and True brewery and also the coffee from Extract Coffee Roasters based only a few hundred yards away.
Now two of Bristol’s finest drinks businesses have joined forces to create a new Indian Pale Ale, called Dr Strangelove after the coffee bean blend, which will be on sale from Friday at branches of Boston Tea Party and other outlets from next week.
The aim was to produce a brew which left you unsure which of the beer’s flavours came from coffee and which came from its usual components of hops, malt and yeast.
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“Combining coffee and beer isn’t new, but we specifically wanted to create something where it was difficult to pinpoint where one started and the other finished,” said Wiper and True founder Michael Wiper.
“Through endless experimentation Extract evolved the bean combination and roast, then the fine tuning came from getting the perfect weight and timing in every single drop of espresso.”
Dave Faulkner from Extract Coffee Roasters added: “Roasting great coffee is at the heart of what we do. Usually I’m constantly thinking about how it’s going to work when it gets to a customer in a coffee cup at home or in one of the stores we supply. There’s so much we can do to affect the end result of how it tastes and I loved the challenge of trying to project ahead in my mind how this was going to work in a Wiper and True beer.”
There will be a launch event for Dr Strangelove at Boston Tea Party on Gloucester Road on Thursday, October 30 between 6pm and 8pm. Visit www.wiperandtrue.com/events/ for more information.
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