‘Tis Rabbit Season
"Called “Bière de Pȃques” in French, “Paasbier” in Dutch and “Osterbier” in German...
Bienvenue Bière de Mars
"Look for a spicy yeast character paired with the herbal bitterness of Saaz, notes of floral Crystal leaf hops from the koelship"
The Confounding New Beer
A dry, wine-like Cherry mixed-fermentation fruit beer.
Wundo and Koel It!
There’s a long gap between this and my previous writings and I should apologize to anyone who cares. We’ve been busy, of course but we had been allowing the beers and taproom to speak for us I guess. Mostly people…
The Urchin’s Tale
The Urchin was a small creature. Insignificant-looking, perhaps. But to some he was very much the opposite, as we shall see. He lived on a moor, a moor on a hilltop, in a land of misty hills and billowy dales. …
There’s no such thing as saison: the story of Jack D’Or.
I had just finished speaking to a group of hot and sweaty home brewers in the mediaeval vaults of a fortified village on a sweltering summer day in Italy. The topic was “saison brewing”, and the reason why I was…
Jack D’Or Must Die
Our newest beer here at Saint Mars is not new at all in some ways. In other ways, it’s totally new, and in yet more ways, it’s just plain WRONG. For our new Sheffield friends, we aren’t trying to leave…
Hello Attercliffe
Welcome to St.Mars of the Desert