Kiesbye's forest beer

As specialists for craft beers from all over the world, our range consists almost exclusively of special beers, but there is one brewer who surpasses even the most unusual craft beer with his creations Axel Kiesbye is not only a passionate brewer and beer sommelier, he also loves to go hiking in his life This in itself is certainly not a unique selling point - but the fact that he collects his ingredients on his forays is

Every year, the nature lover brings out a forest beer that revolves around one or two plants from his adopted home of Austria Using completely new, unconventional methods, he captures the spirit of the plant and transports it into the beer

The forest beer of the year 2022 is made with the bark of the silver willow and the dried flowers of the meadowsweet Both raw materials are at home in the picturesque floodplains of the Danube and share a very special ingredient: The salicylic acid it contains is the basis for aspirin and was previously used in herbal form to relieve headaches and other pains The beer certainly does not contain this healing effect, or only in homeopathic doses, but the bark and flowers give the brew its unique flavor The forest beer with meadowsweet and silver willow is a fresh drop in sunny gold, bringing a fine sweetness and notes of crisp apples and wild herbs to the tongue