Artichoke have managed to get their hands on a few barrels of very hard-to-find

“Budvar Yeast Beer”

Budvar’s Yeast beer is the jewel in the Budvar brewery’s crown and one of the finest beers of its kind brewed anywhere in the world.

Yeast beer and Budvar Original start life as the same brew, The raw materials for the process are the same: Moravian pale malt, Red Bine (semi-early) Saaz hops and spring water from the brewery’s underground lake. The brewing process includes two mash decoction, manual application of hops followed by cold bottom fermentation.

The beer is matured in horizontal tanks for 90 days before filtering begins.

It’s at this point that yeast beer divides from Original. Yeast cells collected during the most intense fermentation period are reintroduced into the mature lager. The live culture of yeast gives the beer a high content of amino-acids, B complex vitamins and molecular proteins which give the brew its unique fresh fullness of flavour.

It can be called Krausened lager or krouzkovany-lezak, but we’ll call it Budvar Yeast beer (ABV 5%).

It tastes great, come and try it before it runs out.......