St Andrews Brewing Company has created a new beer in collaboration with BrewDog for its CollabFest 2019 festival.
Hippophae Fife is a Sea Buckthorn IPA 6.2% which will be launched along with other collaboration ales in Brewdog bars. One 20 litre keg was sent to each bar in the UK and made their away to the overseas BrewDog bars in Barcelona, Brussels, Dogtap Berlin, St Pauli in Hamburg, Budapest, Oslo, Malmö, Södermalm in Stockholm, Norrköping, Nice, Paris, Reykjavík, Tallinn.
Sea Buckthorn is a superfood known as an incredible source of Vitamin C but also used by golf course designers who plant it to stabilize the dunes and provide a wind break on links courses such as St Andrews. It was fed by the ancient Greeks to their horses to give them a shiny coat, hence the name Hippophae from Hippo, the ancient Greek for horse.
The beer is described as having a "natural tartness" with secondary flavours of star fruit, unripe mango and hints of pineapple.
