Cornus Lupus
Browar Kormoran

This beer was created in a unique way. It's a boiled beer – meaning the wort was boiled. The wort boiled for 24 hours, a record-breaking time. What does this mean?

Firstly, this process significantly thickened the beer, increasing its extract. This resulted in a wort with 36.6 blg of extract. On the other hand, boiling the wort significantly reduced its volume. Therefore, the finished beer yields a very small amount. Thirdly, such a long boiling time led to a very intense process, which we would call kettle carmelization. Kettle carmelization is a process in which the intense heating of the wort and its prolonged duration cause caramelization of sugars, the formation of dextrins (unfermentable to yeast), and the enhancement of flavor and the development of a distinctive aroma.

Beers boiled before fermentation have a significantly stronger flavor. The sugars are concentrated and more caramelized, but not in a light caramel style, but more of a dark, pumpernickel flavor. The entire process is much more difficult, and the yeast has a harder time working, but... Cornus Lupus is probably the first beer in Poland concentrated before fermentation :-).

And the dogwood? We added it as whole fruit and aged it with the beer. It counteracts its sweetness and rounds out the flavor. The beer was aged for over two years!