What does Biere de Mars mean to you? We really love this under-represented style of French farmhouse ales. We find our inspiration for this one in Phil Markowski’s stories, a small handful of French examples, and our imagination of the past in the future. We brewed this with a blend of Deer Creek Malthouse’s Keystone Pale and Sweet Liberty, hopped it with lots of French Strisselspalt, fermented it farmhouse style with lager yeast and a bit of our Foraged Yeast Culture, and conditioned it in the bottle with our mixed culture. It presently has notes of wild apple orchard brettanomyces, toasted barley, oolong tea, ephemeral saison ghosts, white grape juice, a balanced acidity, and that dry/malt biere de garde paradox. We really love to watch this one’s continuing evolution in the bottle, as the mixed culture transforms the young fermentation character into more and more funky depth.