Ommegang: Hennepin

One of the best representatives of the Saison style ale, Cooperstown, New York's Brewery Ommegang offers the spectacularly complex and easy drinking Hennepin. Saison is also known as Belgiian farmhouse ale, and in Hennepin you'll taste every part of the farmhouse - the yeasty straw on the packed dirt floor, the funky remnants of livestock, notes of dried apples and tart black cherries, and the weathered oak of the roof overhead. Despite these complexities, this brew goes down easy enough to make an afternoon in the sun a lot more enjoyable, and provides enough citrusy refreshment to motivate even the most overworked farmhand to get back into the fields. You'll have no problem finding this around town in any of the many Belgian inspired taprooms, but if you're planning a spring or summer hoedown, pick up a case at your local distributor. 

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