Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Brewing Farmhouse Ales & Table Beers with Jester King
Jester King founder Jeff Stuffings lays out their whole approach to brewing and fermenting saisons, table beers, and other dry, full-flavored, rustic ales that taste of their place.
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Austin’s Jester King is one of the most revered farmhouse breweries in North America, with its focus on using its terroir to produce highly drinkable saisons and other rustic ales. One of its best-known beers is Le Petit Prince, a table-strength saison packed with flavor despite being a quencher below 3 percent ABV.
In this information-packed 98-minute video course, Jester King founder Jeff Stuffings goes into great detail on their approach to brewing delicious, characterful farmhouse ales firmly rooted in their place. He explains how they manage their mixed house yeast culture—and how to develop your own. Among other topics, he also discusses building character and balance into lower-strength saisons and table beers.
Course contents
6 chapters, 22 lessons, 1h 38m of video
Chapter 1
Welcome
- The History + Principles Behind Jester King10:08
- Building the Texas Terroir3:23
Chapter 2
Mashing Farmhouse + Table Beers
- Building Your Grist6:25
- Evaluating Your Grains + Mashing7:09
- Mashing Temperature3:12
- Selecting Your Water5:38
Chapter 3
Hopping Your Farmhouse Beer
- Overview11:21
Chapter 4
Fermentation + Conditioning
- Selecting Your Yeast3:33
- Mixed Culture Fermentation21:19
- Adjunct Ingredients10:53
- Conditioning Your Beer10:40
Chapter 5
The Future of Farmhouse
- Experimentation4:10
Chapter 6
Further Reading, Listening, Recipes & More
- Recipe: Jester King Le Petit Prince
- CB&B Podcast: Jester King's Jeffrey Stuffings on Creating a Deeper Sense of Authenticity
- Pick Six with Jeff Stuffings: A Six-Pack of Beers with Expressive Personality
- Randy Mosher on Saison: Decoding This Yeast-Driven Style
- Yvan De Baets on Saison’s Greatest Myth: the Yeast
- On Jester King & Its Coolship
- Wild Yeast Wrangling for Homebrewers
- Spontaneity: Prospecting for Your Own House Culture
- Recipe: Drew Beechum’s Little Ghost Saison
- Recipe: L’Esprit de Blaugies Spelt Saison
What students say
Course gave great insight into the thought process and processes of brewing farmhouse brews. wish there was more written information to download, though the articles at the end are very good and will come in handy when I decide to delve in to wild fermentation.
Great and passionate brewer. I could listen to him all day long
Very comprehensive. Presenter was very engaging and knowledgeable. Supplementing articles were concise and informative.