"Enlightenment Brut" is a Belgian Golden Ale brewed to capture what we love most about sparkling wines. To do this we followed the traditional méthode champenoise process used to produce French Champagne. This super hands on, borderline crazy process, is about as labor intensive and traditional as anything we can imagine. Naturally it was right up Otherlands' alley.

After an extended fermentation in the tank, Enlightenment Brut was dosed with sugar and fresh champagne yeast, bottled, capped, and allowed to re-ferment for two months. The bottles were then stored at an angle with the necks pointing down and "riddled," or turned by hand 90° every day to coax the yeast sediment towards the cap.