Brewery Ommegang in New York has been releasing special beers for Game of Thrones for years now. There was a Sour Blonde for Cersei, which couldn’t have been more on brand. There was a Mother of Dragons brew that blended smoked porter and ruby-colored Belgian kriek for the ultimate fire-and-blood beer. There was King of the North, a dark, barrel-aged imperial stout fit for a bastard-son-turned-legend. There were others, too. With the final season comes Ommegang’s latest GoT beer, and it’s most fitting: A beer made with wine ingredients called For the Throne.
“With this offering, we have bent the traditional boundaries of beer-making, co-fermenting traditional ingredients with juices normally destined for fine wines, going to great lengths to create a truly unique, special beer,” Ommegang president Doug Campbell said in a release.
Wine juice beer sounds like a beverage Tyrion would get behind.
For the Throne is a golden ale co-fermented with pinot grigio and viognier grape juices. Its aroma hints at honeysuckle, toasted grain, pear, and apricot, while its tasting notes are sweet malt and honey dew. It packs 9.5 percent ABV. Hold onto your dragons.
Alongside Ommegang’s other Thrones beers, For the Throne joins a range of HBO-approved scotches representing the different Westeros ruling families, a Johnny Walker release called White Walker, and upcoming Oreos-Thrones collab. So many ways to binge. For the Throne will be available where Ommegang beers are sold starting in April. Grab a pack before Game of Thrones is done forever—this iteration of it, anyway—to help you, I don’t know, ease the sorrow of losing weekly doses of Sansa smirks? Celebrate the end to all this agonizing theorizing? It’s up to you.
