GOTCHA! Hope you didn’t fall too hard for our April Fool (we’ve kept it below in case you missed it)!
But we do have real new beer news and our little joke wasn’t too far from the truth. We have indeed always wanted to make an oyster stout and, as a brewery committed to only producing vegan beers, that’s been a no-no. So we’ve worked around it and made a stout using oyster mushrooms!
Our oyster mushroom stout really is in tank right now and it will be available for drinking in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for news. The word on the streets of Walthamstow’s most glamorous industrial estate is that it’s tasting amazing!
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At Beerblefish we’re really proud of our commitment to keep our beers vegan, always. We’ve written much before about how we achieve this, and it means that some styles of beer are off-limits to us, or very difficult to make – no milkshake IPAs or honey beers for us!
However, we’ve always wanted to make an oyster stout and now, finally, we’ve found a way to do it – by using entirely vegan oysters grown specifically for the purpose right here in the Lea Valley. These oysters have never touched an animal product; no bacon butties for breakfast, no milk in their tea.
After a tense and meticulous growing program, our brewer, Michaela, put on her waders and carefully harvested enough to put in one small brew. She likes to call the oyster beds her “water allotment” – an extension of the land-based allotment she lovingly tends throughout the year.
One of the benefits of using vegan oysters is that they are less likely to produce pearls, meaning there’s less chance of breaking your tooth on one if it slips into your pint. Our oyster stout is in the tank now and should be ready to drink in the next couple of weeks – keep an eye on our social media for a launch date!
