LA MERE MARIANNE

CULINARY ALE | 5.0% ABV

AVAILABILITY:

February 9th, 2024

DESCRIPTION:

This beer is made in collaboration with the chefs at the Bedford Village Inn with new specialty ingredients each year.

This year’s iteration is brewed using a Belgian style yeast, vanilla bean, apricot, peach, plum and apple cider.

THE STORY:

In the Spring of 2015, we began work on a project with the Bedford Village Inn. The idea was to combine the culinary expertise of an award-winning kitchen with the art and science of beer design into a single product.

We decided to base the recipe on a culinary style centered around cooked apples, brown butter & chef-specified seasoning: "a la Mere Marianne." Auguste Escoffier’s "Le Guide Culinare" (or "A Guide to Modern Cookery") of 1903, which redefined the restaurant world and standardized kitchen practices that are still taught today, chose to name the dish for his country’s Marianne; the female symbol created by the people to represent their cause during the French Revolution. She is the personification of reason, liberty, equality and fraternity - the antithesis of tyranny and oppression - and her image lives on to modern day.

This recipe inspired both the design of the ale, as well as its name. Freedom is a beautiful thing; it fosters creativity, growth, collaboration and progress, all of which are embodied in this beer’s journey.

You can read the full story of La Mere Marianne here on our blog.