What Is A Farmhouse Ale. This was in a time when it was safer to drink beer than water. Funky Bow Beer Company also in Portland is a brewery based out of a farmhouse though they dont make saisons.
What makes a beer a saison. Belgian-style Saison may have Brettanomyces or lactic character and fruity horsey goaty andor leather-like aromas and flavors. Also called farmhouse ale its a rustic beer that unlike other styles is open to the brewers interpretation.
Farmhouse ales are a true testament to homebrewing.
Farmhouse ales are a true testament to homebrewing. Farmhouse ales are traditional summer beers in France and Belgium that were made in the winter and drunk throughout crop planting maintenance and harvest. 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. No matter where it was made on a farm or in a city warehouse something called a farmhouse beer or farmhouse ale was likely to be inspired by those classic styles.
