What's Brewing at IndieFerm...
Winter 2016
Year Round Beers:
Honey Tripel is similar to a Belgian monastery style tripel but with Massachusetts made honey instead of the more commonly used sugar. Sugar is used in this style to keep the body light and the finish dry. Honey does the same thing but adds some great aromatics. The hops stay in the background to let the honey and yeast-derived flavors come through. The barley and wheat ml ts are almost entirely Massachusetts made and most of the hops are Massachusetts grown. HoneyTripel is available in 22 oz bottles and on draft. ABV is 8.8%. IBUs are about 20. Color is golden. BTW - you can pronounce it however you want, but tripel sounds the same as "triple" when we say it.
Winter 2016
Year Round Beers:
Honey Tripel is similar to a Belgian monastery style tripel but with Massachusetts made honey instead of the more commonly used sugar. Sugar is used in this style to keep the body light and the finish dry. Honey does the same thing but adds some great aromatics. The hops stay in the background to let the honey and yeast-derived flavors come through. The barley and wheat ml ts are almost entirely Massachusetts made and most of the hops are Massachusetts grown. HoneyTripel is available in 22 oz bottles and on draft. ABV is 8.8%. IBUs are about 20. Color is golden. BTW - you can pronounce it however you want, but tripel sounds the same as "triple" when we say it.
Rye and Sage Saison was originally brewed for the wedding of friends of IndieFerm who are conveniently named Ry and Sage. It came out great so we keep making it. There is rye and sage in the beer as well as a bit of lemon zest. It has more body and a bit darker color than a typical saison but is still very easy-drinking. ABV is 6% and the IBUs are about 30.
Boat For Sale Pale Ale is a modern American pale ale with tropical fruit aromas. It pale orange colored and loaded with hop flavors while not being too bitter. We use mostly New England made malted barley and rye and Massachusetts grown nugget and cascade hops. There is some citra, mosaic, and azacca in there as well but those aren't grown locally. The boat is still for sale so email us at info@independentfermentations.com if you could use a 22 foot outboard.
Farmhouse Red is a cross between a red ale and a saison. So you can look at it as either a funky red ale or a dark saison. It has plenty of roasted malts and just a touch of brettanomyces for funk. ABV is 7% and the IBUs are around 30.
Myles X Saison uses the same grain bill as our "normal" saison but is fermented using the yeast from the skins of local blueberries. There are no blueberries or blueberry flavorings in the beer, just their yeast! We pick blueberries from deep in the forest where almost no one ever goes, put a few in a flask of unfermented beer, and let the yeast eat the sugars in the beer and reproduce. After a while there is a nice layer of yeast in the bottom of the flask and we grow the culture large enough to ferment an entire batch. We aren't microbiologists so we have no idea what type of yeast it is, but it makes a nice beer unlike any other. It is a little different each year, the 2015 bottled version developed a pleasant tartness that resembles white wine.
It is kind of comforting to know that if you ever find yourself as the last person on earth, you will still be able to make tasty fermented beverages using wild yeast, you don't need commercially prepared brewers yeast. The barley and wheat malts are almost entirely Massachusetts made. We usually thow some home-grown hops in as well. ABV is about 7%, IBUs are about 30, and the color is golden.
Imperial Stout and Cherry Imperial Stout use the same base beer with lots of malt, lots of hops, and lots of roasted barley for a strong bitter yet balanced complexity. Limited quantities are available on draft (winter/spring 2016) but a lot was bottled for extended aging in a dank basement. Tentatively named "You Can't touch This (until October 2016) Imperial Stout", the bottle aged version is expected to get even better with some age as the flavors blend and complexity builds. The cherry version includes Michigan Montmercy cherries for tartness and just a touch of cherry flavor. ABV is almost 9% and the IBUs are close to 60.
Boat For Sale Pale Ale is a modern American pale ale with tropical fruit aromas. It pale orange colored and loaded with hop flavors while not being too bitter. We use mostly New England made malted barley and rye and Massachusetts grown nugget and cascade hops. There is some citra, mosaic, and azacca in there as well but those aren't grown locally. The boat is still for sale so email us at info@independentfermentations.com if you could use a 22 foot outboard.
Farmhouse Red is a cross between a red ale and a saison. So you can look at it as either a funky red ale or a dark saison. It has plenty of roasted malts and just a touch of brettanomyces for funk. ABV is 7% and the IBUs are around 30.
Myles X Saison uses the same grain bill as our "normal" saison but is fermented using the yeast from the skins of local blueberries. There are no blueberries or blueberry flavorings in the beer, just their yeast! We pick blueberries from deep in the forest where almost no one ever goes, put a few in a flask of unfermented beer, and let the yeast eat the sugars in the beer and reproduce. After a while there is a nice layer of yeast in the bottom of the flask and we grow the culture large enough to ferment an entire batch. We aren't microbiologists so we have no idea what type of yeast it is, but it makes a nice beer unlike any other. It is a little different each year, the 2015 bottled version developed a pleasant tartness that resembles white wine.
It is kind of comforting to know that if you ever find yourself as the last person on earth, you will still be able to make tasty fermented beverages using wild yeast, you don't need commercially prepared brewers yeast. The barley and wheat malts are almost entirely Massachusetts made. We usually thow some home-grown hops in as well. ABV is about 7%, IBUs are about 30, and the color is golden.
Imperial Stout and Cherry Imperial Stout use the same base beer with lots of malt, lots of hops, and lots of roasted barley for a strong bitter yet balanced complexity. Limited quantities are available on draft (winter/spring 2016) but a lot was bottled for extended aging in a dank basement. Tentatively named "You Can't touch This (until October 2016) Imperial Stout", the bottle aged version is expected to get even better with some age as the flavors blend and complexity builds. The cherry version includes Michigan Montmercy cherries for tartness and just a touch of cherry flavor. ABV is almost 9% and the IBUs are close to 60.
Gratzer is kind of a weird beer. Gratzer is made using oak smoked wheat malt which gives it a mild smokey aroma. People ask us if there is bacon in the beer. There most emphatically is not! Gratzer also has a mildly tart finish kind of like a Gose. If you can imagine a Gose with smoke instead of salt, you are in the right ball park. ABV is 6% and the bitterness is mild. Color is a light gold. Gratzer is available in 22 oz bottles and on draft. A maple version was also released in the tap room only.
Dark WInter Ale and DoppelAlt will both be back soon for the Winter.
