Bøgedal Sour’ish is Bøgedal’s version of hybrid beer. Sour’ish is brewed on barley malt & oats or rye from the Nordic genebank. The beer is fermented halfway on an Ale yearst and then put on 225 liter French oak barrels together with approx. 3 liters from a previous vintage of Sour’ish and approx. 0.75 liters of juice made from fermented blackberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb, apples or grapes.
Bøgedal's sour'ish are bottled around midsummer.
Bøgedal Grape Sour'ish Organic Oak F 21/22
A divine drink of a light Grape soft sour with fruit, fullness and parallels with natural wine, cider, a North German white wine or champagne. Pleasant light acidity.
Fermented 12 months in French oak (OAK F) together with crushed grapes & 3 liters from OakC 20/21 Brewed on malt without the addition of hops. The grapes are fermented with 1% salt for approx. 1 week after which everything incl. rubbish is poured into the dish, where it remains during the entire storage.
Pairing: Aperitif, a mixer for drinks or for Ceviche and fish where you would otherwise drink a dry white wine
Sold in bottles of 36,5 cl
Bøgedal Grape Sour'ish Oak F 20/21
A divine drink of a light Grape soft sour with fruit, fullness and parallels with natural wine, cider, a North German white wine or champagne. Pleasant light acidity.
Fermented 12 months in French oak with crushed grapes & 3l Sour'ish 13. Brewed on malt without the addition of hops. The grapes are fermented with 1% salt for approx. 1 week after which everything incl. rubbish is poured into the dish, where it remains during the entire storage.
Pairing: Aperitif, a mixer for drinks or for Ceviche and fish where you would otherwise drink a dry white wine
Sold in bottles of 75 cl
Bøgedal Citrus Sour'ish RomOak -Citrus'N'Rom
Wheat aged 24 months in Rum cask Guyana Enmore AWM with 3l Sour'ish 8 Nose: Citrus carbonation, the sweetness of Rum & lactic Taste: Like a good Orange wine in the notes. Rum sweetness, with dense bubbles, oxidation and malt flavor at the end.
Pairing: Raw fish, vegetable dishes with something fermented in them. Conferated game.
Sold in bottles of 36,5 cl
Bøgedal Sour’ish 12
Pale 2020 – barreled 2018
22 months on French Oak with ½l. fermented Blackberry, 3l. Sour’ish 5 & Honey Cider
Alcohol: 7.0 % Bøgedal No 627-B
A vinous Sour’ish. Although it is sour, it is also a bit like a sherry with sweetness from the honey in the cider. It has clear lactic acid in the nose with a hint of Brett notes. Red wine gum teddy bears and blackcurrant notes also appear.
Pairing: Aperitif instead of Crement snack could be salted almonds. A Cheese sourish: Made solid Cheese, red putty, dehydrated cheese, Havgus, Gnalling. It could handle a Danish tapas table, but it is best for cheeses.
Sold in bottles of 36,5 cl
Bøgedal Sour’ish 9 - fermenting soon ready
Pale soft sour 2020 – barreled 2019
1.Fermented 9 months on French Oak with fermented grapes juice & 3 l Sour’ish 8
Alcohol: 6.8 % Bøgedal No 659-A
Brewed: 5/9 2019 Bottled: 16/6 2020
It's a clear hybrid between wine, cider and beer, you are not really able to assess which is the base, but it is brew on barley. It is Vinose, lots of acid in the nose and a little after Berliner Wiser.
Pairing: Grilled squid, chorizo with apples and onions, fried pikeperch, grilled kidney, Asian spicy food without lime but with coconut, ceviche.
Sold in bottles of 36,5 cl
Bøgedal Rum Sour'ish
Light soft sour aged 8 months in Guyana Skeldon SWR 200l. Rum cask 2001-2021 & 22 months in wine cask with added blackcurrant & 3l. Sour'ish 5
Nose: Soft sour, very slightly lactic at first, but it builds up, notes of blackcurrant rind, oxidation.
Taste: Powerful notes. First sweetness, then rum, then oxidation and finally notes of Sherry.
Pairing: Spanish Tapas with seared anchovies, terrines of offal. Generally dishes where you would use a sherry.
Sold in bottles of 36,5 cl