Midtfyn’s Imperial Stout 9.5% is a dark and full-bodied beer with nice dark cream-coloured foam. It is brewed with several roasted malt types and is aged with oak, which contributes to its powerful body. An Imperial Stout with a strong and intense rising aftertaste of oak, coffee, bitter chocolate and vanilla. Can be served with strong cheese, game or chocolate desserts. A beer that can be enjoyed in a cognac glass in front of the crackling fireplace. Serving temperature 10-14 degrees. Beer novelty of the year 2007 (among 556 beers).
Midtfyns Bryghus was founded in 2004, and is housed in a disused butcher’s shop in Brobyværk, from where the first beer is sent to the market in 2005. Initially, the brewery focuses on brewing beer of Scottish origin under licence, and produces the two beers Moulin Ale and Braveheart, which are the only beers the brewery offers in its first year of existence. In 2006, the brewery is taken over by Eddie Szweda, who still owns the brewery today. In the same year, Midtfyn’s Brewery launches their Stout, Ale and Wheat. The following year, the range is further expanded, as Midtfyns Bryghus launches a total of six new beers on the market; Imperial Stout, IPA, Double IPA, Easter Brew, Christmas Ale and Christmas Stout. Imperial Stout is subsequently named beer novelty of the year 2007.
2007 will also be the year Midtfyns Bryghus gets Hollywood on its back. The film company behind the Mel Gibson film “Braveheart” will not accept that Midtfyn’s Brewery produces a beer that shares its name with the film, even though the same beer has been produced without problems in Scotland for 10 years. The decision to take Moulin Ale and Braveheart out of production had already been made, but Midtfyns Bryghus chooses to throw the matter out to the press, and gets an impressive amount of column space and publicity for the DKK 10,000 that Midtfyns Bryghus ultimately has to pay pay in compensation.
A collaboration with the Danish Arsenal fan club sees the light of day in 2008. Midtfyn’s Bryghus launches Gunners Ale, a red ale, where the white color of the foam and the red tinge of the beer are matched to the colors of Arsenal’s club colours. In the same year Wit is launched. Chili Tripel and Barley Wine will be launched in 2009, Chili Tripel will be named beer novelty of the year 2009 at the Danish Beer Enthusiasts’ general meeting at the beginning of 2010.
At the Danish Beer Enthusiasts’ Beer Festival in 2010, Midtfyn’s Bryghus shared a stand with the Dutch brewery Brouwerrij De Molen. That match was so successful that the brewers from the two breweries agreed to brew a beer together. The result, X-Porter, was brewed for the first time on the weekend after the Beer Festival, and is a union of the two brewers Menno and Jan’s creativity and many years of experience put together and bottled.
In 2010, Rough Snuff hit the streets, a collaboration with hand brewer Erik Nielsen, who today runs Ø-Bryg. Rough Snuff is a Belgian Ale brewed on, among other things, bladderwort and snuff. The latter ingredient, however, had consequences, as tobacco is not allowed to be added to food in the EU. Therefore, the version of Rough Snuff that can be bought today is called Rough Snuff II and is a censored version without tobacco. Rough Snuff has since been voted beer novelty of the year 2010. In the summer of 2013, Midtfyn’s Bryghus will move from the butcher’s shop in Brobyværk to modern and more up-to-date facilities in Årslev, where a new and modern brewing system will also be installed. The first brew at the new facility will be named Midtfyns Bryghus Nr. 1, and is a single hop Pale Ale brewed at Simcoe.
