What does the term "Farmhouse" mean to you?

I'm with you on this one.

Try Hennepin and Rare Vos side-by-side and see if you still think so.

 

"Saison" and "Farmhouse" have been bastardized by American craft brewers. I'm ceretainly not saying it's a bad thing but I've had "Saisons" or "Farmhouse Ales" that are anywhere from 4-10% abv, use open fermentation, barrel aged, non barrel aged, fruit added, bugs, no bugs, etc. Flavor profiles from dry and peppery to sweet and floral to tart and zesty.

I like quite a lot of them but when I purchase a "farmhouse" ale, I'm rolling the dice in the current craft beer market.

 

you got me.

obligatory fat finger autocorrect bro

 

I don't think wild fermentation or brett is required; the funk I'm accustomed to is the normal Belgian yeast funk. I don't know tons of American examples so I'm just riffing off the old-school Belgians around Hainaut province. I think of just a seasonal light ale, a bit more quaffable than a standard blonde, perhaps with a bit of citrus and cilantro taste going on, and it makes me want to light a grill... Michael Jackson's guide has a funny quote from a brewer saying there's no classic profile, it just has to have an honest character.

 

pretty much underrated Phish album

 

Unless you spell Brewery "Bruery". Then the 1 and 2 are flipped.

 

Not all farmhouse beers are saisons. French farmhouse beers are biere de garde and in America we just call anything a farmhouse it seems.

 

Welcome, this is a farmhouse saison.

 

to me low a.b v. saisons. just saying.

 

. a house attached to a farm, esp the dwelling from which the farm is managed

 

If I see chickens or roosters then they have my blessing to call it "farmhouse".

 

I will try it.

 

At one time I thought I knew but now I don't.
I'm okay with a brewery using the term for marketing but I'd like to know how they are interpreting the meaning. I've seen things like "X beer is our Farmhouse IPA", you can't make up something like that without saying what you mean. To me that's either an IPA fermented with Saison yeast and/or brettanomyces.

 

Farmhouse means Aunt Mom and Uncle Dad..........and beers I don't like.

 

Logsdon, that is farmhouse, literally and figuratively

 

Saison, not Hill Farmstead or any brewer who happens to brew in what was once a barn or farmhouse. That aesthetic means ZILCH

 

Fermented with saison yeast at a high temperature.

 

Saison as well as beers exposed to yeasts and bacterial strains native to Belgium, the home of these "farmhouse" styles

 

Is this an incest joke?

 

IMHO a farmhouse ale and a farmhouse brewery are two different thing and that is the source of the confusion.

A farmhouse ale is one that uses wild farmhouse yeast. A farmhouse brewery is a small brewery that uses local ingredients and my or my not brew farmhouse ales.