What you taste
is where you are.
Our Farmhouse Saison is brewed once a season, shaped by whatever the maltings yield and the temperature the stone building holds. No two batches are the same. Batch 47 came from a February cold snap that slowed fermentation to a crawl — and made the best beer we've ever poured.
The fermentation log
is also a field journal.
01 / Open Fermentation
02 / Conditioning
03 / The Pull
Open Fermentation
We ferment in open-top vessels carved from the same stone as the building walls. The wild yeasts native to this valley find their way in — a living terroir that no industrial facility can replicate.
"Feb 3 — yeast is singing today. Slow start, beautiful finish."
Conditioning
After primary fermentation, each batch rests in horizontal conditioning tanks for a minimum of three weeks. The cold stone cellar holds a natural 46°F year-round — no refrigeration required.
"Feb 24 — clarity improving. Gravity at 1.012. Hold one more week."
The Pull
Before packaging, every batch gets a manual gravity sample drawn straight from the tank. If it doesn't taste right to the brewer's palate, it goes back. No exceptions. No shortcuts.
"Mar 3 — ready. Stone mineral finish exactly where we want it."
Before the pour,
there is the floor.
Most breweries buy their malt pre-processed. We floor-malt our own barley on the same limestone that's been here since 1847. The grain is spread two inches deep, turned by hand every twelve hours, and allowed to germinate at its own pace — not the schedule a spreadsheet prefers.
When the rootlets are exactly right — when the grain smells of fresh bread and the stone has warmed to the right temperature — we kiln it. That's the moment you taste in every glass. The patience of the floor, transferred.
This beer could only
come from this place.
The well was dug in the same decade the stone building was raised. Forty feet of limestone filter the water before it reaches the brewing vessels — mineral content that has defined every batch poured here since. You can taste the geology.
The barley fields wrap around three sides of the brewery. On a warm afternoon, when the grain is heading out and the breeze is right, you can smell the harvest before it happens. That's the same barley that ends up on the malt floor, then in your glass.
The same limestone that filters the well water makes up the brewery walls. The building and the beer share their mineral signature.
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Upcoming Events
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