HB&B Blog — Saison

The Beer Lover's Table: Persian Lamb and Quince Stew with Burning Sky Saison Automne

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The Beer Lover's Table: Persian Lamb and Quince Stew with  Burning Sky Saison Automne

I know it’s autumn, even without looking out the window or checking the forecast. My body knows, because almost to the day that the calendar ticked over to October 1, it began to crave pumpkins and sage, chestnuts and mushrooms, bitter greens and browned butter. What I want to eat right now is stew. I’ve had a recipe for this particular stew – called khoresh-e beh – open in one of my zillion tabs for months, just waiting for this time of the year to hit. I like Persian stews like this one because they go beyond mere stodge; they tend...

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Fundamentals #126 — Duration x Forest & Main A Shared Sky Saison

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Fundamentals #126 — Duration x Forest & Main A Shared Sky Saison

Philadelphia will always occupy one of the warmest spaces in my heart. It’s the first city I went on a “work trip” after I quit my job to go freelance in 2016, after splurging my savings on a ticket to that year's Craft Brewers Conference. The event is the largest of its kind in the industry, a series of industry talks plus a trade show that sees upwards of 13,000 brewers visit from all over the world. That trip made me fall in love with a place that has great beer, bars, and some of the most incredible sandwiches you’ll ever enjoy –...

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The Beer Lover's Table: Warm Fig-Wrapped Goat Cheese and Tomato Salad with Fig Oil and Burning Sky Saison Ete

Beer Lover's Table Burning Sky Claire Bullen Saison Sussex

The Beer Lover's Table: Warm Fig-Wrapped Goat Cheese and Tomato Salad with Fig Oil and Burning Sky Saison Ete

I don’t remember when I first fell in love with fig trees. I just gradually became aware of a sweet scent that would occasionally overpower me on my walks around London. It was intoxicating, both musky and powdery, pungent like tropical fruit and sweet like coconut. Eventually, I discovered its source: fig trees – not the fruits, but the leaves themselves. Since then, I’ve become fig-obsessed. All my favourite perfumes smell like green, sappy fig leaves; I dose glasses of sparkling wine with Parafante Liqueur; I have a mental map of all the most fragrant fig trees in the city. Yet...

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Fundamentals #97 — Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont

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Fundamentals #97 — Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont

What can I possibly say about Saison Dupont that hasn’t been said a thousand times before? This is a beer of special magnificence. One that has inspired countless journeys into deeper explorations of the beverage, as well as an entire genre of beer styles. Chances are if you’ve ever tried a beer that says “rustic” or “farmhouse” on the label, you can likely trace its inspiration back to Saison Dupont in some shape or form. This is also the beer that properly introduced the word “saison” to the modern drinkers’ lexicon. The term comes from the French word for “season” and...

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Fundamentals #86 - Futtle Organic Saison with Hogweed Seeds

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Fundamentals #86 - Futtle Organic Saison with Hogweed Seeds

So aghast was Peter Gabriel – well known vocalist, and unlikely amateur botanist, in 70s beat combo Genesis – at the prevalence of Giant Hogweed in the United Kingdom, he wrote a song expressing these fears. Appearing on 1971’s Nursery Cryme, Gabriel spends 8 mins 9 secs regaling his anguish at humanity’s downfall due to the aggression of this wicked and pernicious weed. During the band’s extravagant live shows of the era, he’d even go as far as to dress as a Giant Hogweed while the band performed the song (which, among other things, is a Phil Collins masterclass in...

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