Old Wives Tropical Overlord Imperial Sour

TASTING NOTES

You know how much they love fruited sours at OWA, and were particularly excited when the Imperial Sour thing started to ramp up. Of course they wanted to do it big, so Tropical Overlord is not only packed full of real guava, mango and passionfruit, it’s 8.3% abv. Their first release in 440ml cans. Be warned though, you might need a spoon. Oh and bonus points if you add icecream.

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

Starting out as home-brewers, the boys at Old Wives Ales commandeered soup pots for kit brews and watched on as plastic tubs of murky liquid burped and bubbled in their sheds. It was yellow, it was fizzy, but it wasn’t good. Not in the beginning. But they were learning. They have each earned a first rate home-brewing education in exploding bottles, dead yeast and beer that tasted more like cardboard than malt, taking heart from the fact that slowly but surely, the beer was getting better.

DID YOU KNOW?

Justin Spicer, co-founder of Old Wives Ales and also the Merri Mashers, discovered his interest in home brewing when a friend invited him to a “brew on premise” venue. He learnt the basics in brewing that night which ignited his passion for craft beer and brewing. Justin soon learned that there were several home brew clubs around Melbourne, however, there were not any in the Northern Suburbs. It was this realisation that inspired him to become the inaugural president of a new home brew club two years ago. Merri Mashers now has over 75 members and is one of Victoria’s biggest home brew clubs today.