BIRD OF PREY

HEAR FROM ALAN FULCHER ON OUR FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION…

Bird of Prey is our first ever international collaboration, and was a fantastic opportunity to really stretch what we can produce for the cask seasonal calendar. Uiltje Brewing Company is based in Haarlem, Netherlands. It was founded in 2012 as a contract brewery but transitioned into its own brewing in 2016. They are renowned in the Netherlands for their bold, experimental and inventive beers, and have a prodigious output of sometimes 10-20 new beers a year!

We contacted them in 2024 and decided to convert one of their most popular beers, Bird of Prey, to a cask edition. Bird of Prey is a fruity hoppy IPA, full of citrus and tropical, and they term it a superhero IPA! After a visit to Haarlem and the Uiltje Brewery, and a lot of discussion with their Head Brewer, I took their recipe back and modified it for cask and to fit our process, while maintaining the balance of hop aromas and flavours. We dropped it to 5.2% from 5.8% to make it more palatable to the average consumer and have been ecstatic with the result!

Uiltje are also well known for their fun, viral marketing (if you have time, look up some of their adverts on YouTube as they are amazing!) so to advertise the collaboration, we decided to follow suit and inject a bit of fun into our video. I hope you enjoy!

Watch our video HERE