La Sirene Brewing, Dark Star 2.0, 375ml
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"Part 2 of our long standing collaboration with one of the pioneers of Australian Whisky. DARK STAR is our well-known Praline that has been thoughtfully aged in freshly disgorged premium STARWARD whisky barrels for 12 months.
Back in early June we visited Head Blender and fellow South Australian Jarrad Huckshold & Co at the coveted Starward for a cheeky tipple and a general sharing of information across the beer & spirit categories and wondered how our Praline would age in freshly emptied whisky barrels. Having had aged our Praline in our French Oak barriques for years now we know we develop a wonderful sourness courtesy of our native airborne and barrel-tenanted souring bacteria however putting our Praline into freshly disgorged whisky barrels was a whole new level of discovery altogether.
Well we are happy to announce that the results are in and we are delighted with the balance of whisky flavour to Praline with enthusiastic acid development during the extra time in barrel. In the past, we have noticed that outside trends have leant towards loud ‘whisky punch to the nostrils’ results when ageing a Stout in whisky barrels, which is great when you’re looking for that. However in true La Siréne fashion, we were targeting a more elegant & subtle dance that delivered a more balanced and nuanced result that allowed for the ‘sum of its parts’ to equal more than just the individual components. We feel this honoured both contributions of the our Praline beer & Starward’s whisky barrels and was more in the true spirit of collaboration!" - La Sirene Brewing.
BREWERY: La Sirene Brewing
STYLE: Stout
ABV: 6.3%
SIZE: 375ml Bottle
ORIGIN: Melbourne, VIC
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Meet the Dealers
We’re Antoinette, Natasha, Matt and Simon. We’re good booze lovers just like you. We started our beery journey in 2013 when we opened the famous Brewski on Brisbane’s infamous Caxton Street. In 2018 we opened our first My Beer Dealer under Brewski, it’s one of the few drink-in bottle shops in Queensland and we’re super chuffed with it. 2020 was a big year for us, we launched our online store (you’re looking at it) and opened our second bricks ‘n mortar shop next to Eagle Junction station in Brisbane’s Clayfield (we’re super chuffed with it as well). Both of these have allowed us to complement our awesome beer range with our other passions of good wine and good spirits.
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