Grisette - Belgium beer

Miner beer.

Old beer style, not brewed much. It's similar to a saison or farmhouse ale, except grisette is a little lighter.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/grisette.68553/

Grisette actually originated in French Wallonia specifically in the Hainut province of southern Belgium. It was mostly regarded as a working class beer of the "miner's or factory workers" in the region much like saison was considered a "farmers" beer in the north. Grisette's were typically "low-alcohol, light bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction" according to Phil Markowski in his Farmhouse Ales book.

I brewed a Grisette last year using pils (60%), Vienna (10%) & unmalted wheat (30%) w/ Saaz hops (16IBU's) to an OG of approx. (1.043) using Wyeast #3711-French Saison yeast. Turned out to be one of the most popular beers served at one of my homebrew club's annual beer fests last summer. A homebrewer really couldn't go wrong, so long as they use the KISS method and brew a small (blondish) table beer that could quench a man's thirst after a hard day's labor.

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