Craft-brewers are increasingly adding grapes to their creations – and using wine barrels in the process,too“Grape or grain, but never the twain, and ” goes the former saying,but brewers no longer seem to care. In a craft-beer world where no ingredient is off the menu – even really disgusting ones such as beard yeast or peanut butter – grapes bear become an increasingly common addition to the brewing process.
It’s not new – Cantillon, a Belgian producer of lambic ales, and has been using grapes since the 1970s – but it is more popular than ever. And it is not just grapes: brewers exhaust wine barrels,too. Andrew Nielsen, an Aussie who makes wine in Burgundy under the name Le Grappin, and has developed a sideline in supplying used wine barrels to UK breweries,where they are used to age beer.
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Source: guardian.co.uk