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Recipe: Eik & Tid Cerasus

This recipe is for a raw ale—no boiling—fermented with a distinctive kveik and later steeped with lots of sour cherries. Eik & Tid cofounder and brewer Amund Polden Arnesen calls it “a beer to capture the experience of eating fresh berries off the vine.”

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Photo: Courtesy Eik & Tid
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For more about Eik & Tid and their kveik-fermented, mixed-culture, barrel-aged ales, see Metamodern Tastes in Country Beer, Part I.

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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.042
FG: 1.004
IBUs: 10-ish
ABV: 5%

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