Saison ferment, Pet-Nat sparkle, and ice-wine fruit.

Why not blend a very traditional “Saison style” ferment with a Pet-Nat sparkle and use ice-apple-wine juice?

Currently fashionable saison beers were traditionally rich winter ales, made with farmhouse yeasts, so we left our fruit on the trees to develop sugar laden luscious rich over-ripe flavours. (In wine making this type of fruit is known as “Late Harvest”.)

Two heavy frosts covered the trees before harvest, softening the fruit and helping get our best ever juice yield. Great quality lightly pressed juice - just like ice-wine.

As always, we used our genuine farmhouse yeasts collected from our spray free canopy for the ferment. These yeasts were very different to the early season ferment - a true “Saison Yeast”. Our Saison yeasts delivered a slow and “even” ferment that we couldn’t stop - even when we tried by chilling the brew.

And to finish off, we bottled with enough residual sugar in the fermenting juice to give a great natural sparkle. A true Pet-Nat fizz.

The proof is in the drinking - and we were blown away when we tasted it. There is nothing else quite like it. A heady apple nose bursts out of bottle. On the palette it is very light and fruity with a hint of caramel toffee apple finish. Buttery croissant lingers in the mouth, mixed with late season apple flavour. Delicious.