Blowing from a Gun
10.5% - DIPA - Blowing from a Gun with Indian Cane Sugar and Quintuple dry hopped with El Dorado, Calypso, Cashmere, Mosaic and Hull Melon hops.
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Spicy wood, candied orchard fruit, toasted coconut & watermelon aromatics. citrus bite, tropical fruit highlights, blueberry skin, cane sugar sweetness.
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Brewed with Indian Cane Sugar as this was where the execution took place. quintuple Dry Hopped with 5 hop strains, as the body was blown into 5 parts.
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Based off Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin’s painting “Suppression of the Indian revolt” depicting the events that occurred during the Indian rebellion of 1857 against the extended rule of the British Crown. The original painting was allegedly bought by the British Crown where it has been assumed to have been destroyed (current whereabouts unknown).
Captured soldiers were strapped with the cannon mouth pinned between their shoulder blades or small of the back.
" The prisoner is tied to a gun (canon) with the upper part of the small of the back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up - & fall at, perhaps a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; & the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen. "
-George Carter Stent
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" A sickening, offensive smell pervaded the air, a stench only those who have been present at scenes such as these can realize - the pungent odor of burnt human flesh. the artillerymen - at each discharge the recoil threw back pieces of burning flesh, bespattering the men and covering them with blood & calcined remains. "
- Charles John Griffiths
.Apart from being an execution, it was intended to torture the victim into the afterlife, as all the remains could not be collected and a proper burial, according to Muslim and Hindu beliefs, could not be achieved.
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This method was used as early as 1509, but was almost globally used from the 16th-20th century along with the Mughal empire. The British adopted this method and used it well into the 18th century. It has even been used in recent years by Kim Jong Un executing officials with anti aircraft guns.
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Pairs well with:
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Brand of Sacrifice -
"The Branded"
Executioner of Artwork: Inkrituals