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Borough market launches beer to support local traders six months after London Bridge terror attack
London’s iconic Borough Market has brewed a beer to raise funds for traders affected by the London Bridge terror attack this year.
The new Love Borough Imperial Porter, which went on sale last week, has been brewed using fuggles hops grown by gardeners on the premises.
The beer has also been infused with chocolate from Rabot 1745 and waste coffee provided by Change Please – both of which are traders at the market.
It is the third beer since 2014 that has been made from Borough Market’s own hops, and has been curated by expert brewer Dan Tapper.
Limited edition bottles of the 7.2% beer will retail at £3.90. Every £2 from each bottle will be donated to the market’s trader support fund, which is helping ease the financial losses suffered following this year’s terrorist attack.
The beer’s launch coincides with the six-month anniversary since three terrorists carried out an attack on London Bridge and the Borough Market area, killing eight people.
“This year, there will be a palpable sense of sadness and remembrance—there are wounds that have yet to heal—but there will also be a lot of love, togetherness and hope on display,” Donald Hyslop, chair of the Trustee of Borough Market, wrote in a post on the market’s website.
Despite using leftovers, Borough Market announced in September that the beer will be made with some of the market’s highest-quality ingredients including a range of Peruvian coffee beans.
“We’ve opted for beans grown by a Peruvian producer called San Ignacio, featuring typica, bourbon and caturra varieties,” Cemal Ezel, founder of Change Please and Old Spike Roastery said.
“The coffee has really vibrant flavours of raspberry and blackcurrant that will pair beautifully with the dark roasted flavours of an imperial porter.”
New beer label design for @boroughmarket Chocolate and Coffee Porter. Expertly brewed by Dan Tapper @TheBeakBrewery and @TapEast with ingredients from @ChangePlease and @Rabot1745. Illustrations by @LiisaChisholm. Proceeds go to the Trader Support Fund. #loveborough #craftbeer pic.twitter.com/gpUjJYxhFl
— Peter Gibbons (@Pete_Gibbons) December 2, 2017
Change Please is a social enterprise-cum-coffee house which trains homeless people to become baristas. It has 14 outlets across the capital including a mobile coffee van at the market.
Chocolateir and restaurant Rabot 1745 already produces two chocolate-infused beers; a pale ale and a porter. The Love Borough Imperial Porter uses St Lucian chocolate, which “tends to be robust, oaky and leathery,” according to the trader’s head of cocoa innovation Adam Geileskey.