Morelia, Mexico - 4.5% abv

Now here’s a beer unlike any you’ve ever had before!  Beer itself is pretty simple - water, malt, yeast, and hops - so if you start with alternative base ingredients, they’ll yield quite a different end result.  This brew doesn’t even look like your typical beer.  It pours not opaque but definitely hazy gold with a soapy bubbly head.  You’ll find aromas and flavors of sweet tea, biscuit, and floral notes, which keeps this comfortably within the realm of familiar beer characteristics.  Thanks to its bottle-conditioning, or second fermentation within the beer bottle itself, you get a unique, creamy, mouth filling effervescence and a nice yeasty finish with sweet bubble-gummy esters.  It’s so smooth and light-bodied, it drinks more like an iced tea than any other beer.  

Cerveceria La Bru joined Mexico’s Slow Food Community’s urgent initiative in 2015 to help preserve these ancient and unique Mexican crop cultivars that are sadly getting replaced by more modern varieties each year.  If these special plant species aren’t consciously saved through such efforts, they may slip into extinction like many others have before.  La Bru responsibly sources the native blue corn for their award-winning beer, farmed in the same ancestral method that the local people of the region have for over 7000 years.  In doing so they support biodiversity, and help generational producers gain organic certification.  If drinking a unique beverage like this  benefits such a great cause, we’ll gladly have another please!