Barney’s Beer focuses on barrel-aging project For 2023

Barney’s Beer, recently named Best Small Brewery in Scotland, has seen great success with its latest barrelaging project, Post Mortem, and is planning on regular new releases in 2023. These special edition beers - named after the space used to produce and mature them, the former Post Mortem Room at Summerhall - are all limited production and form the breweries most experimental range to date.

From mixed fermentation and gueuze-inspired brews to new Imperial stouts and barrel-aged versions of some of recognisable Barney's Beer classics you can expect intriguing expressions, bold styles and big flavours.

The Post Mortem Project exists to allow the team to dissect and examine unique styles of beer and experiment with unusual processes or ingredients in the brewing process. With six beers already available in the range, and over 30 casks currently maturing in the warehouse waiting for release it’s fair to say that you can expect some very exciting new beers from the Edinburgh-based brewery.

Operations Manager Aly Mathers said that the brewery had been working on the project since lockdown: “We’d always wanted to experiment more with barrel-aging, and the quiet spell during Covid allowed our brewers the time needed to do the research and put the work in. Some of the beers we have resting in casks at the moment have been aging for nearly two years and we’re really happy with where they are at.”

For more information go to www.barneysbeer.co.uk