Farmhouse Style Beer Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/farmhouse-style-beer Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:33:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Visit to Bière De Garde In Lille France’s Old Farmhouse Beer Style http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-biere-de-garde-in-lille-frances-old-farmhouse-beer-style.html http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-biere-de-garde-in-lille-frances-old-farmhouse-beer-style.html#respond Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:24:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=270878 At the end of summer, across Northern France and into Belgium, the grain fields had been harvested, the wild hops were at their plumpest, the farmworkers had finished their long working days, temperatures were beginning to drop, and the ideal time came for brewing what we now, rather starry-eyed, call “farmhouse beers.” A few months earlier, in the peak July heat, the men were too busy in the fields, the weather was too hot for clean fermentations, and there was no fresh grain. The hops weren’t ready for picking yet and so, through a combination of necessity, harvest, and weather,

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