Ottawa-based Tooth and Nail Brewing Company has unveiled a new beer, ’Eerste’, to mark it’s first anniversary.

The 5.6% beer is a blend of other beers the company has produced and is available in 500ml bottles.

Matt Tweedy, owner and brewmaster of Tooth and Nail Brewing Company, explained: “For our Anniversary beers, we have decided that each year we would present a beer with several components.

“It has to be a blend of other beers that we’ve made, must have a barrel component, probably some brettanomyces, and must be from the Belgian tradition.

“This year’s version was called Eerste (“first” in Flemish/Dutch), and was a blend of barrel-aged Valor, Streif, White Flag, Discretion, and a kettle soured beer brewed solely for blending purposes.

“Two strains of brett add a funky element.  We feel that the end result tastes like what we believe the earliest of farmhouse saisons would have tasted like.”

The company has also recently won awards at both the Ontario Brewing Awards and Canada Beer Awards.

These include Silver and the Farm House Dark category for its ‘Sustenance’ beer, and Silver in the Belgian Style Quadruple category for its ‘Truce’, at the Ontario Brewing Awards.

In the Canada Beer Awards, Tooth And Nail secured silver in the English Style Pale Ale class for ‘Tenacity’ while ‘Valor’ was recognised in the French and Belgian Style Saison category, among others.