Hail the Bat

This collaboration with The Hanging Bat  in Edinburgh is based on a traditional Flanders Red aged in a red wine demi barrique.

The contents of this barrel were perpetually blended to create an exceptionally complex beer, as it is a mixture of three-, two- and one-year old beers fermented with a wide variety of microbes, including spontaneous cultures and sherry flor.

The beer was then split to create two batches.

Hail the Bat I
This batch was refermented in steel with a small quantity of pressed sour cherry juice (total 50g/l) in order to retain and emphasise the character of the base beer.

Hail the Bat II
This batch was refermented in steel with Scottish Tayberries (400g/l), grown within 20 miles of our brewery in Dundee.


Release Information

Hail the Bat is an extremely limited run, with only 100 bottles of each going on sale.
These will be sold as a pair, with 50 packs being sold on our website and the other 50 being sold from The Hanging Bat in Edinburgh.

For those living in Edinburgh, we encourage you to support local and pre-order yours from The Hanging Bat. Details for this will be posted onto their social media.

For everyone else, we want to make the sale of our 50 packs as fair as possible, therefore, these will only be made available to those who have pre-ordered our initial beer launch packs, and only one set per person.

To be in with a chance of buying these directly from us, you must have purchased our Beer Launch Pack before 10pm on 7th May.

On Saturday 8th May, those who have purchased the Beer Launch Pack or our original Goat Starter Pack will receive an email before 12pm with the instructions on how to access the online shop when these beers go live at 2pm on the same  day.

T&Cs for those buying direct from Holy Goat:

  • Beer packs go on sale at 2pm on Saturday 8th May 2021.
  • These will be sold on a first come, first served basis.
  • Only available to those who have purchased the Beer Launch Pack or Goat Starter Pack.
  • Only one pack per person.
  • Once added to your cart, the beer pack will be held for 2 minutes, so you don’t need to worry about something else grabbing these at the last moment.
  • The beers will be added to your original order, so there’s no need to pay for postage again.
  • All beers will be shipped w/c 24th May 2021.
  • Full instructions will be in the email.

T&Cs for those buying direct from The Hanging Bat:

  • Beer packs go on sale at 2pm on Saturday 8th May 2021.
  • These will be sold on a first come, first served basis.
  • Only one pack per person.
  • Packs will be available from 24th May 2021.

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