Innis & Gunn Launches Independence Day Beer
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Great news from Innis & Gunn:
The lineage and history between the Scots and Americans are deeply interwoven and play significant roles in American History. In fact, 21 of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence were of Scottish descent and two others had been born in Scotland, only to come to the Americas later in life. Even America’s favorite relative, ‘Uncle Sam’, was actually based on a real man, Samuel Wilson, whose parents were native Scots. Today, about 30 million US citizens can trace their descent from Scotland. Now, just in time for the Fourth of July, the Innis & Gunn ‘Independence Day’ beer has arrived as a summer-long toast to Americans and Scottish-Americans everywhere.
“When we first produced Innis & Gunn Original in 2003, its wonderful flavor resulted from the interaction between our (SCOTTISH??) beer recipe and the American Oak in which we aged it. The success we have had internationally has only been possible because the USA has been the trailblazer for craft beer for over a decade. We owe a great deal to the USA and the brand would not exist without the American Oak used to flavor the beer, so we have brewed this special Independence Day beer to celebrate and honor this,” explains Dougal Sharp, CEO of Innis & Gunn.
Sharp adds “Independence Day is quite unusual in that it marries two characteristics: complexity and refreshment, which you don’t often find in a single beer. It both satisfies thirst but also has a full and rounded flavor, which comes from the oak maturation. We challenged ourselves to create a beer that was both refreshing but complex – something that would quench the thirst over a long, hot summer but that would not lose any of the unique flavor attributes our award-winning team is known for.”
The outcome is a light and fruity beer with notes of candied apple and marzipan. The combination of biscuit malt and citrus hops tingle the palate only diminishing after the first sip to allow the signature Innis & Gunn vanilla and oak notes to shine through. Because of this combination of Scottish malted barley and mouth-watering zesty American hops, ‘Independence Day’ beer is a great partner to BBQ dishes.
Innis & Gunn Independence Day is now available for a limited time only on US shelves and is priced at $11.99 for a 4-pack. Innis & Gunn Independence Day is the second Limited Edition beer to be released in the US, following Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Cask which was introduced in January and sold through the trade almost immediately. Over the past nine years, Innis & Gunn has won an international following for its innovative limited editions as well as the core range of Innis & Gunn Original and Rum Cask.
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