Whats A Farmhouse Ale. This unique beer style is known to be highly crushable and great for patios in the summertime. This was in a time when it was safer to drink beer than water.
Thanks to Garshols work the terms farmhouse beer or farmhouse ale can now be used for brews that sound very little like traditional saison or bière de garde. Farmhouse ale is an ancient European tradition where farmers brewed beer for consumption on the farm from their own grain. These homemade ales were extremely varied in taste and quality because they were limited to the farms where they were brewed and consumed.
Some farmhouse brewers begun to boil their wort with hops as soon as they could afford to buy big copper kettles perhaps from 17th century onwards.
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. As a beer style saison began as a pale ale brewed in the cooler less active months in farmhouses in Wallonia the French-speaking region of Belgium and stored for drinking in the summer months. The combination of yeast and light malts in Saisons make them easily identifiable.
