Verdant Brewing Co, Light Bulb

Here’s your cheat sheet for Light Bulb by Verdant Brewing Co. I’m experimenting with putting this out a day earlier than usual so you can have more time to sort out the food pairings if you see anything there that takes your fancy.

Verdant are one of a handful of British breweries who are really killing it right now. They recently opened a taproom in London, in collaboration with Pressure Drop, called The Experiment. I went to try it out on its opening night and, while I didn’t try this beer, I did taste a few of their other ones which were tasting really great, so expect good things from tonight’s offering.

Verdant Brewing Co, Light Bulb / Pale Ale / 4.5% ABV / IBU not available

Featured in main subscriber box on 12 July 2018.

Find Verdant Brewing Co on Twitter at @VerdantBrew and on Instagram at @verdantbrew.

Serving temperature

Serve this beer between 7°C and 10°C; stick it in the fridge for 90 minutes.

As ever, be wary of over-chilling your beer. More chill means less flavour. To learn more read my post on recommended serving temperatures.

Flavours to expect

Verdant describe this beer as having “mild sweet malts and bright modern hops”, which sounds good to me. Expect a light, bright, juicy beer bursting with modern flavours. The hops in question are:

• Magnum: resinous, herbal, pine
• Simcoe: pine, grapefruit, passionfruit
• Centennial: lemon, herbal, resinous

It sounds like there will be a decent bitter kick to this – herbal, piney and resinous – with plenty of tropical and citrus fruit playing over the top. It should taste full and rounded despite its relatively low ABV.

Verdant beers are always unfiltered, so expect a bit of haze. Their beers are suitable for vegans.

Food pairings

This style of beer is good with a wide range of foods. The usual pork and burgers should be OK, along with charcuterie – in particular capocollo apparently. For cheese matches cheddar should be fine, or try a Cantal or l’Etivaz if you can find them. (If you’re anywhere bear Borough Market, I know Mons sometimes has them.) For a veg matching, I think some grilled asparagus might be worth a shot.

Further info

Read more on this beer from BeerBods. I couldn’t find anything on the Verdant Brewing Co website.