saXum Tarpeium

9.2%   Roman Style  IPA  -  Saxum Tarpeium Brewed with Spelt, Wheat, Barley, Blossom Honey and conditioned on Sauvignon Blanc Grapes, Enigma & Nelson Sauvin

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Green tea pearls, dank onion grass, lemony balm, cedar wood.  Pineapple honeysuckle, Semillon wine, buckwheat honey, apple blossom.

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Brewed with ingredients similar to what was in alcoholic beverages available to soldiers in Ancient Rome, using hops to compliment those flavors.

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The Tarpeian Rock was a 25 meter (80ft) cliff in ancient Rome that was used for executions.  Traitors, Murderers and perjurers were the most common that were flung from this cliff, but the execution was considered a fate worse than death.  to be executed for Saxum Tarpeium carried the stigma of shame, as it was reserved for those guilty of the most notorious acts of treason.

Most notably was the Vestal Virgin Tarpeium for whom the place was named, daughter of the Commander of the Citadel, Spurius Tarpeius.  While Rome was besieged by the Sabines, she approached them and offered entry to the city for "what they bore on their arms".  While she meant the bracelets and jewels, the Sabines gave her them along with their shields which they piled upon her, crushing her to death.  Her body was then cast her from the cliff and eventually buried there.

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The cliff still stands today as one of Rome's Seven Original hills of Rome. The depictions of the torture of Lady Tarpeia adorns Denarius coins from 19 BCE & 89 BCE.

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Pairs well with :

Orphan -  "Mount of Olives"

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