Brewery Ommegang has released a wide collection of Game of Thrones-themed beers over the past few years. There’s the Iron Throne Blonde Ale, the Take the Black Stout, the Fire and Blood Red Ale, Valar Morghulis, and the Three-Eyed Raven Dark Saison. The drinks have proven very popular, so much so that the company rereleased the first two beers in the series do to popular demand. If you’re gonna get drunk, you might as well be thinking about Game of Thrones while you do it.
Ommegang wants to keep its fans happy, so its preparing a new beverage due out before the premiere of Game of Thrones Season 6. According to the company, the Seven Kingdoms Poppy Wheat Ale will be “a marriage of a traditional Belgian-style wheat and a hop-forward American ale.” Before anybody gets the wrong idea, it points out that “unlike so many of the marriages on the show, the resulting hoppy wheat is pleasant, playful and inspired.” Thank goodness.
They should have served Seven Kingdoms Hoppy Wheat Ale.
Ommegang describes the beer’s taste as a “full, round hop flavor with tart orange and lemon with a substantial wheat maltiness and the finish has slightly lingering hop notes without being harshly bitter. The mouthfeel is smooth and silken owing to the wheat and oats.” I’m not a beer expert, but I assume that means it’s tasty.
"This last season, the imaginativeness of the show was pretty astounding so we aimed for a beer that could hope to match that. A fusion of two wonderful styles was an idea that really excited our team."
The show has gotten a lot more popular since Ommegang started releasing Game of Thrones-themed beers around the time Season 3 was on the air, and the company is acting accordingly by brewing the Seven Kingdoms Wheat Ale at a rate 3.5 times that of what its first beverage was brewed back in 2013. At 6.9% ABV, the beer should keep fans good and hammered through whatever heartbreaking surprises Season 6 has in store.
Ommegang’s new concoction will be available on draft and in 750ml bottles at the suggested price of $9.99 per bottle. Look for it in March of 2016.* Like Cersei in the midst of a High Sparrow-mandated period of sobriety, we’ll be waiting for it.
*Unfortunately, the beer won’t be distributed in Mississippi, West Virginia, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and either of the Dakotas. Fans in those states will have to go without or go on one hell of a beer run.