The BreaKing Wheel

5.2 %  Kölsch - the Breaking Wheel brewed with Cologne Malt and German Callista Hops
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Light Spritzy, Segmented citrus, bright Apricot preserves, passionfruit, black currant jam, touch of clean malt
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The origin of the Kölsch came from Cologne, Germany where this execution took place. The grain & hops used also came from this region while the water profile was replicated from the town of Cologne.
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The Breaking wheel sometimes phrased as being “broken on the wheel” or “wheeled” was a public torture and execution method, primarily used during the Middle Ages.
The execution wheel was usually a large carriage wheel, sometimes modified with sharpened edges made of iron. Either a blunted instrument or another wheel was used to break the limbs of the condemned.
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Women and children had been actively disappearing around the town of Bedburg near Cologne during the mid to late 15th century. A werewolf was suspected after seeing a wolf missing the left forepaw in the area, and a man was accused after missing the same limb.
Peter (Stübbe) Stumpf was tortured and stretched on the rack before confessing to using black magic, being a werewolf, and murdering and eating 14 children, along with 2 pregnant women who’s fetuses “he ripped from the womb, eating hot and raw….dainty morsels”. One of the children was his own son whom he brought into the woods before allegedly transforming into a werewolf. Where his insatiable bloodlust prevailed consuming his son and eating his brain.
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Cologne, Germany 1589 CE
“With red-hot pincers, Flesh was torn from his body, then flaying began on the legs. His limbs were then broken with the blunt side of an axe head before being beheaded and set ablaze upon the wheel”
He was tortured and executed with his daughter and mistress who were flayed and strangled before him. Local authorities then set the torture wheel upon a pole, featuring a figure of a wolf atop it, alongside Stumpfs severed head.
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Pairs well with:
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Metal:
Mana Tomb, Set Fire to the Sky - Wolfsbane
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Savory:
Bratwurst
Fish & Chips
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Sweet:
Bienenstich
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Cheese:
Butterkase
Stilton with dried apricots