From The Archives: The Three Threads

From The Archives: The Three Threads

Introducing Anspach & Hobday: From The Archives. In this blog series we’ll be looking at important milestones within the Anspach & Hobday story, digging through our archives to find blog posts and snippets that paint the picture of what A&H was up to all those years ago. Our first instalment is from 2014, when we brewed The Three Threads, a primitive version of a porter with uncertain beginnings.

When Edd went to Estonia (and why).

When Edd went to Estonia (and why).

First things first though, the beer. Tanker’s flagship beer is Sauna Session. We first tried this beer when they came to London in 2018 for a collaboration and tasting night with us in Bermondsey. We were quite taken aback by this truly unique beer. The beer uses a “tea” made from steeping Estonian birch leaves in water over night and using that for around half of the brewing liquor. All the flavour comes from this inventive method and absolutely no hops are used. The beer really stuck with us, so we thought it would be a fantastic idea to use this method to brew a kettle sour…