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OUR BEERS
500ml
Released April, 2022
5.6% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
Featherfarm
Farmhouse Style Lager
Dryhopped w/ Saphir
Last year– in one of our first "Pop Ups", we prepared a beer for you called "Featherfarm", a rustic, unfiltered, funky little lager fermented in oak. To date, it's been the fastest selling draft beer we've sold.
It's with this glorious and encouraging little piece of data that we officially "scaled up" our first beer based on an overwhelmingly positive reception from you, dear customer. Thank you!
Earlier this winter, we sent a wort comprised of Pilsner, Spelt and Oats in to a well-steamed, largely neutral 500L French Oak puncheon to ferment with a clean Bavarian Lager yeast strain.
After lagering in oak for 8 weeks, and a dryhop addition of Saphir hops, Featherfarm was primed with champagne yeast to bottle condition and naturally carbonate for another 5 weeks.
Warning, this beer is not what we'd call "to style" (nor would we expect it to be)– but it's a lager with a Supermoon fingerprint on it nonetheless. Clean, yet somehow also funky? Oak influenced & malty. Crisp yet soft?! Helles Lager-like in it's presentation and focused on the session. A hint of fruity Brettanomyces because...Supermoon. Go ahead and pour it in a shaker pint– shit, we did just to see that lacing. This here's a drinkin beer and we're in to it.
AROMA:
english muffin. earthy German hops. wheat toast.
TASTING:
sweet malt. yeast. green strawberry. lemon lifesaver.
375ml
Released March, 2022
4.6% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
Gausette
Grisette Style Farmhouse Ale Dryhopped w. Hallertau Blanc
Grisette is a really fun and sort of "underproduced" style. It's history is a bit obscure, so I'll spare you the folklore and explain our intention and interpretation. For all intents and purposes, a Grisette is a lower abv saison that focuses on high drinkability while maintaining a unique yeast driven character, accentuated by hops. I like Grisette because people just keep trying to box it into one specific thing, and it can't seem to be done easily. I dig that. Ours feels seasonal in nature, a Spring beer, if you will, but by virtue of its approachability and expressive farmhouse character, would be an interesting beer in any weather. We chose to elevate the properties of our mixed yeast culture with a modest dryhop of Hallertau blanc, a hybrid hop known for it's profile of white wine grapes.
***Gausette was awarded the First Place Winning beer at the 2022 Avril Fete, the Sugar Maple's Annual celebration of table beer competition.***
AROMA:
pear skin, graham cracker, coriander
TASTING:
sauv blanc, poached pears, Wonderbread
375ml
Released February, 2022
Production time: 12 months
6.5% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
punchbowl Melange
Blended Farmhouse Ale Aged in French Oak w/ Red & Black Raspberries + Tart Cherries
Punchbowl Melange is a blend of carefully cellared oak barrel fermented saisons Punched down in our French Oak fruiting tank and refermented with whole Wisconsin fruit from the ‘21 harvest.
Several hundred pounds of red and black raspberries. A hundred pounds of Door County Tart Montmorency cherries for extra dimension.
The interplay of these fruits within a decidedly mild Brett fermented saison blend offers an authentic, and not overly boastful fruit profile, with a hospitable acidity resulting in a purposefully and maybe surprisingly approachable beer— 12 full months in the making. This beer leans more dry than sweet and it’s not what I would call “sour” —but rather recalls freshly picked, delicate fruit off the vine.
Refreshing, dry, tannic, bright.
AROMA:
popped raspberry skin, almondy cherry pits, dried cherry
TASTING:
half strength kool aid, last bite of rhubarb pie (more crust), fresh cherry spritz
500ml
Released January, 2022
6.2% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
Many phases (Blend 003)
A Blend of 10 and 12-month mixed culture saisons fermented and aged in French Oak wine barrels.
Whereas blends 001 and 002 focused on balanced combinations funk, bitterness, acidity, and rustic, malty body. You'll notice this blend leans heavier in to wood and acidity than blends previous. This expression is heavily driven by blending from an elusive single-fill Pinot Noir barrel, compared to the two and three-fill barrels brewers typically use and have more plentiful access to. Generally, the less a barrel has been filled/emptied, the more robust and intact its oak and tannin contribution will be to each successive liquid that becomes resident to it.
The result of higher tannin in this blend gives the sensory illusion of brighter acidity and a toothy textural bite that elevates its overall expressiveness and structure, and gives a sort of platform for some more delicate, yeast-driven fruit profiles to speak. No beer souring bacteria were used in the production of Many Phases 003.
AROMA:
Frosted vanilla peaches. Cigar box. Flower funk.
TASTING:
Pink/strawberry Starburst. Burnt citrus rind. Challah.
750ml
Released December, 2021
6.9% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
Cellargeist
Gin Barrel Blended Saison
Dryhopped with Grüngeist Hops
We’ve been super stoked and invigorated by what Gin barrels have brought to our blending program. Gin botanicals go off script in a mixed fermentation setting to bring an incredible, and sort of underexplored compliment to Saison that’s far less about the spirit and way more about the complex bill of botanicals that make the spirit. Roses. Creamsicle. Honey. Pine. Somehow on point for a winter holiday run, and also the middle of summer?
750ml & 375ml
Released December, 2021
6.5% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
GLOE
Mixed Fermentation Saison Aged in French Oak
Refermented with LaCrescent White Wine Grapes
Gloe was a 9-month mixed fermentation saison we racked from a 500ml French Oak puncheon onto several hundred pounds of freshly harvested LaCrescent White Wine grapes. This varietal was grown and harvested by the UW Madison Agricultural Research Center in their continuing study of cold weather, hearty wine grape hybrids. The base Saison was a perfect canvas for these grapes to referment on to impart a surprisingly accurate representation of what the fruit actually tasted like off the vine. We don’t typically expect such literal translation to happen with fruit refermentation, but the beer brings authentic white grape, and totally fake purple grape candy aromatics, with a vibrant kick of lemony acidity and wet vinous earth.
750ml & 500ml
Released November, 2021
6.7% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
HEllo MAUDE
Old World Saison brewed with Aged Hops
Fermented with Brettanomyces
Why, hello, Maude. Maude is OG. Wears ALL of her jewelry. ALL of the time. She’s glitzy and sophisticated, but keeps a few dirty jokes up her sleeve. Like Maude - the beauty of saison is rooted in it’s classic features. Pils, spelt, wheat. Whole Leaf Hops aged 4 years. A mixed yeast culture. This beer is a nod to the saisons of yesteryear– quenching, complex and dry farmhouse beverages composed of a rather modest bill of rustic, yet highly expressive ingredients, and almost entirely driven by yeast. An honest beer. Simple, yet somehow entirely not.
AROMA: pie crust, lavender, honeycomb
TASTING: cardamom bun, dried apricot, melon rind
375ml
Released October, 2021
6.5% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
wettenhop
Farmhouse Style Saison brewed with Wet Cashmere Hops
Fermented with Brettanomyces
Wet Hopped beers are really something. Ridiculous logistics are set up to facilitate the brewing of these beers just one day per year. On Harvest day, or within hours of it– hop farmers ship lots of freshly picked hops on refrigerated truck (*if you're a brewer lucky enough to get your hands on them*). This year, we had the privilege of making beer with a gorgeous lot of fresh Cashmere hops grown in Michigan by the kind & talented folks at Hop Head Farms. We zagged here. We wrote a saison recipe intending to not just highlight the delicate Cashmeres, but to push a boundary a bit and see what a mixed culture fermentation might offer in terms of the relatively unexplored territory of biotransformation on wet hops. The result is a saison that brings the unique fruit profile of Cashmere, headstrong with melon, alongside an earthy funk that transports you right into the hop field on harvest day.
AROMA:
Green Grassy Funk, Honeydew, Limestone, Kiwi Starburst.
TASTING:
Cantaloupe, Dandelion Stem, Honey Drizzled Saltine cracker, cannabis
500ml
Released September, 2021
Production time: 11 months
7.2% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
neighbs
Collaboratively brewed w/ 1840 BREWING CO.
Blended Farmhouse Amber Beer
Refermented in Rye Whiskey & Pinot Noir Barrels with Brettanomyces
1840 Brewing is 2 miles directly north of Supermoon and we both make farmhouse-inspired beer. In fact, there is a horse stable between our breweries. They’re our Bay View neighbs and we share a deep affinity for the slow-fermented FUNKY stuff. It makes all the sense in the world that we’re releasing this beer 11 months after brew day. We designed a wort intended to rest in both of our respective oak barrel cellars to funkify enough to put our own spin on each. The Supermoon version was brewed in October of 2020, fermented in stainless with a clean German Kölsch strain before being split into two barrels inoculated with Brettanomyces: one former Rye Whiskey, and one French Oak Pinot Noir. These beers were blended at a a specific ratio aiming for a balance that doesn’t lean too heavily in either barrel direction, creating a shockingly drinkable, malt forward, funky, farmhouse amber beer. Neighbs is bottle conditioned & carbonated at a slightly lower level than other Supermoon beers, to keep the delicate malt structure and barrel characters cohesive and unified. Think more cask. Cheers to Slow Beer. Cheers to our Neighbs.
AROMA:
Barnyard funk. Pasture. Northwoods. Cocoa powder.
TASTING:
Fig Newtons. Bread pudding, maple, toasty biscuits.
500ml
Released September, 2021
Production time: 20 months
6.2% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
Many phases (Blend 002) (SOLD OUT)
Blended Farmhouse Beer aged in French Oak Wine Barrels
This is the second iteration of the first beer we ever released. This one, a unique blend of three barrels, is 20 months in the works. It's less a flagship beer, and more a representation of a flagship philosophy. Well-aged, mature beer. Fermented in oak, entirely with Brettanoymces. Blended intentionally to convey both complexity and balance. Bottle conditioned and carefully cellared. Full disclosure: Many Phases (Blend 002) is the most limited offering we've released to date. It's constructed from small portions of French Oak wine barrel fermented farmhouse beer, combining funk, bitterness, acidity, and rustic, malty body.
AROMA:
Honeycomb, suitcase, cedar, wildflowers.
TASTING:
Cellar funk, fermented peach, vanilla, kombucha tartness
500ml
Released July, 2021
Production time: 7 months
5.9% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
there is a plot (SOLD OUT)
Gin Barrel Blended Saison, Dryhopped with Idaho 7
You'll hear me say this a lot. But, our brewery is fundamentally built on the practice of blending. Almost everything we make is fermented with wild yeast, in oak barrels. We embrace the highly variable nature of producing farmhouse-style beer this way, because we see each barrel and the liquid in it as an ingredient, or component to make a more complete beer than the single barrel itself. We've got a handful of gin barrels that have mixed cocktails of wild yeast in them, and this one in particular married particularly well with a neutral wine barrel-fermented saison across the cellar. On it's own, the gin aroma and flavor is nice, if not a bit boisterous. As a blending component to a fruity, peachy saison, however– it provides a perfect herbal, bitter and earthy counterpoint and backbone to elevate the citrusy notes and overall structure of the saison even more. Subtlety is key here, and we're thrilled with the result.
AROMA:
Lemon Merengue. Thyme. Oak. Grapefruit peel.
TASTING:
Peach cake. Black tea. Mint. Tangerine.
500ml
Released July, 2021
6.3% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
Dens
Collaboratively brewed w/ PENROSE BREWING CO.
Farmhouse IPA, Fermented with Brettanomyces, Dryhopped w/ Lotus
It's certainly been a long, strange trip. It was a heady and super fun experience to head back to my alma mater, Penrose Brewing Company, and jump on the brew deck with Tom and Jake to brew up DENS, a Farmhouse IPA fermented with Brett and highlighted by Lotus hops. This beer represents our roots in both brewing and admiring wild farmhouse beers, as well as the continued interest we share in highlighting new world hop profiles in mixed fermentation beers. The Bay View Fox lives in the hearts, minds and back yards of our neighbors here on the south side of town. In Geneva, IL, Penrose sits just West of the Fox River, in the Fox Valley. Two Dens!
AROMA:
Cannabis. Grass. Dried Pineapple.
TASTING:
OG bitter hops. Marmalade. Mandarin Oranges. Fluffy Wheat.
500ml
Released May, 2021
Production time: 6 months
6.0% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
steembier (SOLD OUT)
Blended Farmhouse Lager
Like Anchor Steam®? No– not quite. Anchor Steam® (a gem and industry icon) is a hybrid style of beer called a “California Common”– specifically, a beer fermented with lager yeast at ale temperature. Steembier is a lager, blended with oak-fermented, barrel-aged saison. What? Why?
At Supermoon, we’re no strangers to hybrids, as a brewery focused on mixed fermentation and blending, the concept is sort of in our DNA. We view the majority of our barrel stock as components, or ingredients to construct a more complex and complete beer. This beer is another example where the separate components of the beer created more harmony together than they did on their own.
The saison component came from a barrel that was tasting really delicious– it had a quiet acidity about it, with some really fun flavors going on like shortbread, lime zest and lemonade. But this beer was very dry - and would likely be passed off as “thin”.
Enter rustic lager. Across the cellar in stainless was a lager brewed with spelt and aged hops that had a really nice earthy bitterness to it, with a spicy, rustic malt structure that amplified some of the more subtle pastoral qualities of the saison, and actually elevated a bit of the quieter oak profile from the neutral pinot barrel.
We tried three blends, and the one that ended up in this bottle is super fun balance of both styles. It’s remarkably clean, but also lively and eccentric. It’s got the sensibility and drinkability of a lager with a saison wild card up its sleeve. It’s a classical actor who kills comedic roles. If this beer was a person, I think it would be Jon Hamm? Drink it and I promise that analogy will land.
AROMA:
Lemon tart. Dandelions. Orange Starburst. Vanilla.
TASTING:
Lemongrass. Seedless rye. Kölsch. Spicy funk.
750ml
Released May, 2021
Production time: 5 months
5.0% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
midbeam (SOLD OUT)
Piquette Style Farmhouse Ale
Oak Fermented Table Beer Refermented with Second Use Cherries & Raspberries
Stay with me here. “Piquette” is an ancient winemaking technique/style recently revitalized by open-minded winemakers (and brewers), which simply aims to maximize the potential of fermentable fruit by giving it a second life.
Essentially, instead of discarding grapes/fruit from the production of an initial beverage, we recognize that the leftover “pomace” still offers viable sugar, tannin, color, flavor and aroma. Piquette has saison-esque origins– which is to say, it’s a lower-alcohol, light-bodied beverage made by and for farmhands.
We borrowed this philosophy and technique to produce a “Piquette Style Ale”. A low-abv tart wheat beer was added to barrels containing the spent cherries from Deus Ex Forager, and underwent spontaneous refermentation. That pale, cherry-essenced beer was then racked into a 500L oak puncheon onto the spent Raspberry bed from the production of Launchdown. An additional refermentation took place, soaking up an enormous amount of beautiful color and flavor during aging.
The result is a gorgeous, bubbly, dry, tart, quenching fruit beer that lives somewhere between seltzer, Brut Rosé, and saison.
Drink it outside. Share it if possible. Have a picnic. Listen to some music. Have a conversation. Reconnect. Happy Summer.
AROMA:
Strawberry Kool-aid. Canteloupe. Mimosa.
TASTING:
Watermelon Jolly Rancher. Red Wine spritzer. Wheat.
500ml
Released March, 2021
Production time: 16 months
6.2% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
launchdown (SOLD OUT)
Farmhouse Style Raspberry Beer. (2020 Harvest)
LAUNCHDOWN! Hell yeah. This beer was a joyous project. Let’s get right to it: despite its color, this is not a sweet beer. It has sweetness, but is fundamentally and intentionally dry. No lactose. No wacky shit. It features acidity, but isn't what we would deem “sour”.
No lactic acid-producing bacteria were used to make this beer.
The 10, 12 & 14-month base beers selected for this blend were highly attenuated and came from neutral French Oak barrels, showcasing flavors of white grape, unripe peach and lemon curd– serving as a mild but characterful foundation for fruiting. Together, the blend was minerally and soft, with a pleasant, supportive acidity. The blend was racked into a 500L Pinot Noir Puncheon onto several hundred pounds of whole, Wisconsin-grown red & black raspberries. After several fruit cap punchdowns, the beer and fruit mingled for 6 weeks.
The sugar from this fruit was further fermented out almost entirely, leaving a fleshy, authentic, bright & earthy raspberry flavor and aroma with a truly stunning color. Mild tannin from the countless tiny seeds add a boost of mouthfeel to the otherwise dry structure of the beer that is impossible to replicate with syrups, purees or concentrates. The foam on this beer is a fun shade of light violet. Given the chance to recede and warm slightly, you'll have a very natural wine-like experience in the glass– fun in general, but especially if you're a fan of the more “lively” natural red or skin contact wines, this one evoking Cab Franc & Syrah.
Aroma:
Fresh raspberry. Twizzlers, roses, Welch's Grape Jelly, wet earth
Tasting:
Raspberry sorbet. Macerated strawberry, rhubarb, black cherry jam
500ml
Released March, 2021
6.8% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
farn
Batch 001(SOLD OUT)
Batch 002 (released March 2022)
Farmhouse Style Saison brewed with aged hops, cofermented w/ Brett C
The word? Like farm. But not? You ever see farmland out of a plane window? An aerial view of a farm is funny because it oversimplifies an extremely complex ecosystem run by blood, sweat, Mother Nature and debt into really basic shapes that you either disregard as “meh” or spend a lot of time thinking about. There’s a saison metaphor built in there somewhere that I’ll let you noodle on.
What makes this saison “farmhouse style”?
Rustic grist: pils, spelt, wheat, oats.
Aged Whole Leaf Hops: 2015 Cascade, if you please.
Mixed yeast culture: a cofermentation of saison yeast and Brettanomyces Claussenii bringing you esters, spice, aroma and the most mild pineapple rind funk not typically showcased by single strain clean saisons.
Farn is finished with a dryhop of younger, fresher, more vibrant Hop Head Farms MI-grown Cascades to amplify aromas of grapefruit zest and herbal orange rind.
Aroma:
Shortbread. Grapefruit peel. Orange peel. Dry pepper.
Tasting:
Dole's Peach Cup. Coriander. Orange breakfast scones. Dried pineapple.
500ml
Released November, 2020
Production time: 13 months
6.4% alc/vol
Bottle conditioned with Champagne yeast.
deus ex forager (SOLD OUT)
Mixed Fermentation Cherry Beer. (2020 Harvest)
It's really important to me that our beers have a point of view. I love the idea that they can carry a sense of time and place. Here in Wisconsin, we are spoiled by the proximity and access to world class fruits like Door County Cherries that, each year, are the embodiment of the growing season behind, entirely locked within the fruit picked during harvest season. Not dissimilar to wine vintages.
Deus Ex Forager (2020 Harvest) is a blend of 9 and 11-month farmhouse beers fermented and aged in French Oak wine barrels. Whole Door County Tart Montmorency Cherries were added at 2lbs/gal into barrels one day after harvest to referment. We count on these whole cherries to provide natural color, fermentable sugar, tannin and a subtle, mild and earthy flavor of raw cherry fruit, rather than "cherry flavored" things.
Aroma:
Red Tootsie Pop. Fruit Snacks. Oak Cellar Funk.
Tasting:
Fruit Roll-Ups. Tannic Pinot Vibes. Boldly supported by drying cherry skin. Vanilla almond stage crew–hiding, yet facilitating. Lively, bright carbonation.