Lamington Ale has always been one of our more popular beers.  At every festival where Deeds sets up a stand, the first beer the first customer asks for is the Lamington.  There’s something to be said for that, especially if it so happens to be in the dead heat of summer.  The dark brown ale with notes of coconut plays on taste that most Australians grow up with.  It’s an iconic flavour and a staple of our winter releases.  Not the most common treat in America, it was easy to warm up too.  Several months ago during a recipe review session, the Lamington recipe came up and we started looking at what we could do to improve it.  However, the conversation quickly escalated and in short, the Double Lamington Variant was born.  The conversation basically flowed via a series of questions:

“What if we increased the ABV?”

“What if we put it in a 440mL can?”

“What if we tried to emulate the raspberry or strawberry jam?”

“What if we put it in a bourbon barrel?”

Before we knew it, we decided that the product as it is was solid, perhaps a tweak here or there.  Also, we decided what we really wanted to was create a variant.  Take all these what-if scenarios and make Lamington new again.

So, that’s what we did.

Double Lamington part of the Dark Deeds Series