Sailors Grave - Dark Emu Dark Lager

Dark Emu Dark Lager

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Abv
4.8%
Volume
355ml

A genius collaboration between two brilliant minds, the beer of course is superb. Rich, dry and complex with roasted malts and seeds with gentle, refreshing bitterness keeping things tidy. We love this beer and are honoured to offer it on to you.  As this is a deeply important collaboration between Bruce Pascoe and the team at Sailors Grave, we have edited their words on the project. “When we first read Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu we suddenly felt that we were seeing the true Australian landscap...Read More...

A genius collaboration between two brilliant minds, the beer of course is superb. Rich, dry and complex with roasted malts and seeds with gentle, refreshing bitterness keeping things tidy. We love this beer and are honoured to offer it on to you. 

As this is a deeply important collaboration between Bruce Pascoe and the team at Sailors Grave, we have edited their words on the project.

“When we first read Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu we suddenly felt that we were seeing the true Australian landscape for the first time. Over the last 200 years we have been cloaking the environment with layers in our own image, to make us feel safer and more comfortable in what can sometimes be an unfamiliar land. We have since been on a sometimes deeply personal journey ‘looking over our shoulder at the past’ and as Bruce says so eloquently “you can’t eat our food until you can swallow our history”. Over the last 6 months we have been working with Uncle Bruce and the team at Black Duck Foods to bring Dark Emu ~ Dark Lager to life, Using the addition of roasted mamadyang ngalluk and burru ngalluk grass seed from the Far East harvested by Yuin people on the banks of the Wallagaraugh River.
Dark Emu ~ Dark Lager will be brewed whenever enough grain can be gathered to make the beer, but the beer itself will be an evolving story reflecting the seasons and the availability of the grain. The beautiful art on the can depicts the giant creator emu, Baiame, after it left earth and rose into the sky, becoming the huge dark space in the Milky Way. It was created by Yuin man Terry Hayes who also harvested the grain used in Dark Emu.
We thank Uncle Bruce Pascoe & family for entrusting us with this project and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders past and present of the lands in which we dream, learn and live.
We’re privileged to share and walk this special country together, the world's oldest continuous culture and we’re committed to honouring this history and knowledge through our work at Sailors Grave. A percentage of the proceeds from the sales of Dark Emu will go to support the studies of local Aboriginal students at Orbost, Mallacoota and Eden."

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