Brasserie des Voirons Sapin 2024 web-unpublished Native ferment

Native ferment

and saline fino sherry from one of the region's best producers

The benchmark crème de cassis

and it will hold in the cellar for years if you have the patience

Brasserie des Voirons Sapin 2024 web-unpublished Native fermentIt tastes like a walk through an alpine forest, which given where it's made is entirely the point. Sapin means fir, and Brasserie des Voirons brews this one with fir buds gathered in the mountains around Lucinges, high above Lake Geneva. The buds bring resin, citrus and a cool green note, something like gin's pine forward cousin, riding on a beer that's been long fermented and aged for months in old barrels. Dry, tangy, savory and weirdly refreshing,