Wren House - Monte Vista

Our house saison has returned. Carefully crafted in order to express our saison love via our own brewing philosophy. An evolution stemmed from the romantically rustic farm brewed ales of the old Flemish region of Europe. Here we are now. With forced wort cooling, big fancy stainless fermenters, and a machine that easily (and efficiently) puts these cold & carbonate beers into aluminum tubes. So how do we fit “Saison” into these boundaries? Well we treat it like a modern beer with loose rules. A grain bill of North American pils malt, an Arizona grown raw red wheat variety from our friends at @grainrandd, and whole malted oats. This grain bill then gets mashed and rested at a variety of different temperatures. Czech grown Saaz makes up the majority of the hopping, however, it’s backed up with small amounts of low alpha acid Cascade—both strictly added at the beginning of the boil & the very end of the boil. This is a medium strength wort that is fermented to dryness. We knocked out into the tank without the use of glycol, which landed us in the high 80s. We did not use forced modern chilling throughout the fermentation process. This caused it to creep into those beautifully expressive triple digit temps. It’s carbed naturally in the tank, thanks to a lot of fermentation occurring under high pressure. We don’t achieve much “intense spritz” character because of this, more of a moderate natural feeling carb. Tangerine peel, fresh cracked fennel, lemon pepper, dried whole grapefru