9 Best Of What Does Farmhouse Beer Mean Best Wallpaper JPG. A lightly smoked summer farmhouse ale. To us Farmhouse style brewing is about taking readily available local ingredients with which to brew beer.
Saisons Biere de Gardes Grisettes And So On. So farmhouse beer has come to mean any beer emulating beers that historically were brewed on farms for farm workers and locals rather than for mass distribution to a city populace though theoretically that could be a whole bunch of things and also BTW most farmhouse ales are no longer brewed on actual farms or for farm workers. A farmhouse ale is one that uses wild farmhouse yeast.
Saison is French for season because these funky pale ales were in fact seasonal beers that were brewed in the winter when the full-time farm workers had fewer chores.
What makes a beer a saison. Even though it seems vintage-ish a farmhouse decor can be combined with modern touch style. 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. Farmhouse ale is a style of beer that cropped up in rural areas spanning France and Belgium in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.