Ferus x Ghost Train Collab — When Two Birmingham Breweries Make Something Weirder and Better Together

The Review

Ferus Artisan Ales announced their first collaboration with Ghost Train Brewing before they’d even been open a year, and the pairing made immediate sense to anyone who’d been paying attention to Birmingham’s craft beer scene. Ferus: wild fermentation, barrel aging, winemaking techniques, European-influenced patience. Ghost Train: railway-themed ales, industrial Birmingham aesthetic, approachable craft with genuine ambition. Together: something neither would make alone.

The collaboration beer was a wild sour — Ghost Train’s fruit-forward sensibility filtered through Ferus’s barrel program and wild culture. It poured a hazy amber-pink, with a nose that was unmistakably Ferus’s in character (barnyard funk, stone fruit, oak) but with a brightness that Ghost Train’s hop instincts provided. The palate was tart and fruity, more accessible than a straight Ferus sour but with more complexity than Ghost Train’s standalone beers typically show.

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Collaborations like this one are why Birmingham’s craft beer scene is genuinely exciting right now. Two breweries with different philosophies finding a common language in fermentation, and the beer being better for the conversation.

Ghost Train is gone now. The collab lives on in memory. Get to Ferus.

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