Thieves of Fire

From Lora Brewing

Thieves of Fire is a mixed culture beer with dried wild fennel pollen, fronds, and stalks conditioned in bottle with raw honey. 

5.4% ABV

374 x 750ml bottles available

The two beers which compose Thieves of Fire were first brewed in November 2020 and February of 2021.

The brew in November of 2020 consisted of organic Motueka hops, organic pale Schooner barley, organic raw and malted wheat and was primary fermented in an upright 500 litre puncheon with the head off before being transferred to smaller format oak barrels for extended aging and maturation. 

February 2021's brew was a more hop forward recipe using a heavy hand of organic Motueka hops, organic pale Schooner barley and organic malted wheat. This beer was both fermented and allowed to mature in a 500 litre puncheon. 

In early June 2021 these two beers were blended together in a 60/40 ratio respectively and allowed to coalesce for a month before being steeped for an additional month on air-dried wild fennel pollen, fronds and stalks gathered from around Sydney. The resulting beer was taken to bottle in late July, naturally carbonated and conditioned with raw, unheated Malfoy's Gold Blue Mountains Polyflora Wild honey. 

Tasting Notes - Fennel mukhwas, sunshine and orange zest up front with pepper transitioning to graham cracker and woodsy, eucalypt honey. 

Production Notes - The brewing process for our beers involves taking a more hands off approach than typically used. There were no process or brewing aids used outside of a carbon water filter to remove chlorine from the water. No acid or acidulated malt for pH adjustment, brewing salts, enzymes, yeast nutrients, fining agents, antifoams, filtration, or extracts were added or used in making this beer. Additionally, we have utilized a hot sparge to intentionally pull tannins from the grains so they may provide some structure and texture into the resulting beers.

Storage - Beer isn't typically a fan of sunlight and as such we recommend you store our beers in a cool and dark environment. Not only will this help protect the beer inside, but it will also preserve the labels as well (see below). 

When/how to drink - This beer has been well aged and we feel is ready to drink now! However, we would expect it to age well for up to 3 years if you'd like to see how it transforms over time.

We recommend allowing the bottle to chill upright for 24 hours before opening and allowing yourself time to sit with the beer as the flavors and aromas will evolve over an hour or two as it opens and warms. This being said, enjoy the beer whenever and however you like, with friends and family or by yourself. It's more important to us for you to enjoy the beer in a situation that suits you than to get caught up on the finicky details! :)

Labels - We’ve painted our labels with natural pigments gathered from landscapes around New South Wales. As such each bottle is unique and these natural hues may change slightly over time, much like the evolution of the beer inside. 

🍻 Lora