More Picture Of What Makes A Farmhouse Ale Best Resolution Image. The yeasts in farmhouses tend to eat lots of sugar so these beers dont have many sweet flavors. They can also be real fizzy thanks to increased carbonation.
Its actually a broader category of styles. Beers were given to seasonal workers who tended the crops or the saisonniers in French so it wasnt made with top-shelf ingredients people sought out. This is a distinctly American version of a farmhouse ale that takes the traditional elements of the style and turns them up a notch.
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It was historically brewed with low alcohol levels but modern productions of the style have moderate to high levels of alcohol. Farmhouse ales can be clean funky bitingly sour or everything in between. Farmhouse ales aka saisons were back in the day brewed with local-to-the-farm ingredients in you guessed it farmhouses. A farmhouse ale is not a single style of beer.