Saison D'entrecasteaux

Bruny Island is separated from mainland Tasmania by a narrow body of water called the D’Entrecasteaux Channel (pronounced ‘don-tra-KAS-toe); both are named after the French explorer, Admiral Bruni D’Entrecasteaux, whose expedition charted the area in 1792. ‘Saison’ (meaning ‘season’) is a style of farmhouse ale originally from the Flanders region of France and Belgium. Our saison uses raw barley and wheat grown in fields overlooking the Channel on North Bruny, as well as our usual Tasmanian base malt. It has been hopped for bitterness and aroma with Helga, Willamette and HPA-035, all grown at one of the world’s oldest hop farms in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley. All these locally farmed ingredients (along with unadulterated Bruny Island spring water) were used to feed three distinctive strains of yeast.