Mysterious Brewing Digital Relic – new on today at The Fox Inn at Fox Corner.
Mysterious Brewing Digital Relic
A smooth, easy-drinking traditional Best Bitter.
This deep, copper coloured beer has honey, caramel and toffee notes from the malts, which are beautifully balanced with the fruity and floral British hops.
ABV 3.4%
Mysterious Brewing
Mysterious Brewing are a small independent brewery, located near Reading, Berkshire, producing hop-forward Modern Classics in Cask, Keg and Can.
Like all the best ideas Mysterious Brewing Company started as a crazy conversation over a few pints. Except this wasn’t just any old pint of beer…
However, to start at the beginning we need to wind the clock back a little further. Ken and Adam met through Reading Amateur Brewers, a highly active home brew club in Berkshire. In early 2022, Adam had talked the organisers of Burghfest, a charity beer festival (run by the Burghfield Santas), in to allowing the home brew club to run a competition to find the festivals very own special brew. Andy Parker at Elusive Brewing had agreed to scale up the winning home brew and produce it commercially… all that was missing, was a winning beer.
Twenty beers had been brewed by members of the club and the standard, as always, was exceptionally high. But there was one beer that stood out clearly as a sessionable and flavoursome beer. Ken’s name was called out as the winner and the first chapter of the mystery was now written.
It was now June and the brewday had arrived. Ken got stuck in to mashing in with the team at Elusive with much support and encurragement from the watching Burghfield Santa’s (it was also one of the hottest days of the year!)
The beer was released in early July, selling commerically as Mystery Fox across the region and at Burghfield Santa events over the summer. It was then brewed a second time ready for Burghfest which took place at the end of September.
Burghfest was now upon us, and Adam had arranged a “Meet the Brewers” event for members of RAB and for the brewers supplying the event to have a sociable beer together. Brewers from 5 local suppliers attended, during the afternoon Adam started chatting to Andy Watts from Little London Brewery in Silchester.
A year earlier Adam had finished writing a business plan to launch a new brewery but had decided in the current financial clement it was probably not the best time. As the afternoon progressed Andy Watts made an incredible offer, one that was simply too good to refuse.
Later that evening, Ken and Adam agreed that maybe it wasn’t such a stupid idea to start producing beer commercially after all – Mysterious Brewing was born!