Collaboration with Free Will Brewing. We’ve been pals with the crew of Free Will since before we both opened our breweries over 10 years ago. Gerard and Nate go even farther back to when they were brewing Saisons and Biere de Gardes together at McKenzie Brewhouse. This beer is a take on style we’ve lovingly adored this whole time. We brewed this with a solid base of fine pale barleys from @DeerCreekMalt, performed multiple decoctions, boiled it for an extended time with aged and fresh hops, fermented it with our lager yeast at rustic temperatures, captured natural carbonation, and aged it cold. It’s a fairly complex process for a beer that drinks fairly subtle and simple, but that process lends a romantic depth you really can’t find otherwise (or so we tell ourselves). We find notes of dry Twizzlers, marble rye bread, anise and holy basil in the garden, orange cream, damp straw, and maybe an Oktoberfest party.