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EL MURAL

Mexican Lager [4.5%]

1st Edition, 2024

nixtamalized “maiz criolla” on Vienna and Munich malt

Mexican-style lager or “clara” brewed with nixtamalized ancestral corn sourced from our old friends @masienda

This is a beer that is almost 10 years in the making. In what seems like another life, while our brewer was working at Blue Hill, he met a young iconoclast named Jorge Gaviria. At the time, Jorge had a vision, and he would dream [out loud over shift drinks] about seeking out and meeting the farmers who were growing [preserving] Oaxaca’s heritage corn varieties. ?And sure enough, he turned his dream into reality: forging relationships with growers; bringing the corn into the US; teaching young cooks how to nixtamalize it, mill it and make fresh tortillas. He wrote a book, called Masa, and was nominated for a James Beard award for the effort. Now here we are, almost a decade later, so proud of him.

El Mural is a love letter to Jorge, the single-origin farmers Masienda works with and all of the hard work that goes into preserving these precious and delicious corn varieties. Light, crispy and refreshing, the beer boasts delicate, floral, aromatic fresh-tortilla notes that intermingle beautifully with noble hops and linger in the finish around a crispy bittering staff. Spunded and naturally carbonated, this might be the beer we are most proud of. We can’t wait to share it with you.