Farmhouse Ale Vs Wild Ale. Also called farmhouse ale its a rustic beer that unlike other styles is open to the brewers interpretation. Cool to 68F 20C and rack into a sanitized fermentor.
These farmhouse beers would have been of a lower ABV than modern saisonsaround 3 to 35 ABV on average rising in the early 20th century to between 45 and 65 ABV. In general a beer that falls under the. Farmhouse ales are saisons bières de garde maybe one or two sub-genres and arguably any beer made to approach the core characteristics of saisons or bières de garde in some important aspect s.
Saisons often use wild top-fermenting yeast and a variety of local ingredients including various grains.
Saisons are farmhouse ales. It follows farmhouse brewing methods. Phil Markowski cofounder and brewmaster of Two Roads Brewing in Stratford Connecticut wrote the book on farmhouse ales. Its actually a broader category of styles.