There, farmhouse brewers like Castelain in Benifontaine and Brasserie de St.-Sylvestre in Steenvoorde produce bières de garde, beers for keeping: strong, dry and spicy beers that can be just as good in hot weather as the saison beers.
Alongside Waterloo Bridge a new glass building will be put up to provide educational programmes and house the Saison Poetry Library.
Ms. Fabricant noted that the bières de garde had nutlike flavors while the saisons were fruitier.
She described the saisons as winelike, a comment that may both gladden and enrage beer partisans.
Stillwater's Classique farmhouse ale, for example, is similarly unbalanced by malt; bland corn and rice are used in this beer, clearing the stage for flavorful saison yeast and American hops.
For now, however, there are four original offerings: the Tropico Saison with passion fruit; the Split Shift India Pale Lager; the Soul Cal, a hoppy California Common; and Black Sunrise, a black lager.
The beer: A traditional bread stuffing is a perfect match for Belgian saison, which is subtle on hops.
Try the Farmhouse Saison (7.50 dollars) and plates of the addictive pickled vegetables: rhubarb, carrot, sprouts (5 dollars).
Few Spirits bourbon is made using a high percentage of rye in the mash bill and a yeast strain typically used for saison beers.
At the time, Saison was operating out of an improvised shed in the city's Mission District.
Five to six cases of pale ale per week, for example, are reserved for Soho steakhouse Flat Iron, while Indian restaurant Gujarati Rasoi in Dalston favours the lemongrass saison.
