Lea

750 ml

5.3% ABV

Lea is an extra aged wild fermented saison made from a blend of two pale beers, brewed in February 2020 and July 2020. The worts were made using single infusion mashing from grists containing pilsner malt, wheat, and maize. This produces a delicate malt flavour and allows for a more refined finished beer.

A mixture of aged and fresh German and New Zealand hops were used in the boil to both temper acid production and favour yeast influence during fermentation, and provide sweet floral aromatics. The beers underwent spontaneous fermentation and were left untouched in barrel for an average of 48 months.

The blend was dry hopped with a small amount of whole leaf NZ-grown Wai-iti prior to bottle conditioning. These wonderful hops add a little lime and apricot note to the aroma. The bottles were then matured for nine months to further refine the aromatics and produce a crisp dry finish.

Mills Brewing

Mills Brewing was started in 2015 by Genevieve and Jonny Mills. We make small batches of beer with minimal modern intervention, relying on local wild yeast cultures and the influence of nature to ferment.

We use traditionally made floor malted grain and whole-leaf hops to produce our wort at The Salutation Inn, at Ham.

All of our beers are fermented in wooden barrels by local indigenous yeast and bacteria at our tumble-down part-15th century barrel store in rural Gloucestershire, situated at the edge of the town of Berkeley in the Severn Vale. Our slow fermentations typically take two-to-four years before being selected for bottling.

Our focus on minimal modern intervention allows us to work with, rather than against, nature. As such we welcome in seasonal temperature changes and the local microflora, working at ambient temperatures year round and embracing the variation this brings to our fermentations.

We embrace the lack of control during the fermentation, as it can conjour wonderful flavours we never could have designed, with each barrel providing nuanced variation. The majority of our beers are made by blending together different barrels and batches to draw together this array of flavours into our ideal finished drinks.

All of our beers are finished by slowly bottle-conditioning with our local wild yeast and bacteria for several months before release. Our bottles all feature artwork by Genevieve’s father Martin Kaye.

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All beer is cold stored to ensure you get the best quality beer delivered to you and so you get to enjoy the beer as the brewer intended.