Style and Colour: Hybrid Wine and Beer
Taste: Tannic and slightly sparkling, this beer blurs the boundaries between beer and wine.
Alcohol: 6 % ABV
Drinking Temperature: 10 - 12° C
Fermentation: Mixed fermentation beer with maceration of Gamay marc from Domaine de la Mermière.
Traditional Pet' Nat method. This is the return to the old original tradition of sparkling wine production (Ancestral Method). Pet' Nat is synonymous with authentic winemaking, mostly in small quantities, and a natural approach to wine. It undergoes refermentation in the bottle.
The Brewery: Brewery L'Apaisée founded in 2015 in Geneva by Xavier Righetti. Making beer is also a way to return to a more manual and less stressful activity, away from computer screens. The name L'Apaisée (meaning "relaxed") had it all.
Origin: La Marmière comes from the name of the La Mermière domain (marc & Mermière), a vineyard property located in the Geneva countryside, which has 11 hectares in the AOC Geneva Appellation.
Food: Excellent as an aperitif.
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Best combination of a beer & a wine
Can't decide on having a beer or a wine? Go for one of these! This one sits firmly between the two. On the sour edge, but not hugely so, it's extremely easy to drink, yet also quite complex too. Plenty of fruit notes from the Gamay grape skins/marc, and the tannins from the skins add texture and grip to the palate. Really interesting to share with friends.
