Side Project Brewing

Balaton (Blend #2)

Sour - Flanders Oud Bruin

Balaton is our Wild Missouri Brown Ale that was fermented in and aged in local Chambourcin Barrels with Missouri microflora for over a year with Michigan… Read More

Balaton is our Wild Missouri Brown Ale that was fermented in and aged in local Chambourcin Barrels with Missouri microflora for over a year with Michigan Balaton Cherries. We wanted Balaton to be soft, yet complex, so it is only 5% abv with a higher level of Brett influence and more impactful oak presence to balance out the signature Side Project acidity and the tart, cinnamon notes of the cherries... Read Less

Merci (Blend #3)

Wild Ale - American

14% - Saison du Fermier that was fermented in French Oak with our Saison/local microflora mixed culture and then racked to and aged in a light toast American… Read More

14% - Saison du Fermier that was fermented in French Oak with our Saison/local microflora mixed culture and then racked to and aged in a light toast American Oak Foedre for 6 months.


31% - Saison du Fermier that was fermented in and aged in a heavy toast American Oak Foedre for 4 months with our Saison/local microflora mixed culture.

46% - Missouri Wild Blond Ale that was aged a French Oak Foedre that we have been pulling solera-style pieces from for the past 4 years. Higher acid (base for Fuzzy).

9% - Missouri Wild Ale that was aged in Missouri Oak Chardonnay barrels (59 gallon) for 3 years. Was aged to become a thread in this beer or a Pulling Nails blend. Read Less

Smooth (Blend #2)

Wild Ale - American

Smooth is our Blonde Missouri Wild Ale that was fermented in and aged in our oldest French Oak foedre with Missouri microflora for a number of years.… Read More

Smooth is our Blonde Missouri Wild Ale that was fermented in and aged in our oldest French Oak foedre with Missouri microflora for a number of years. Once mature, it was racked on Missouri Nectarines Read Less

Blended 2017

Wild Ale - American

A blend of the following: 2014 - A mash bill of 65% Pilsner and 35% Unmalted Wheat that was turbid-mashed and boiled for three hours with hop pellets.… Read More

A blend of the following:

2014 - A mash bill of 65% Pilsner and 35% Unmalted Wheat that was turbid-mashed and boiled for three hours with hop pellets. Inoculated with Barrel #40 and fermented in and aged in two neutral Hungarian Oak 500L Puncheons.

2015 - A mash bill of 65% Pilsner and 35% Unmalted Wheat that was step-mashed and boiled for two hours with aged, whole-leaf hops. Inoculated with cultures from the 2014 brew and fermented in and aged in two French Oak 500L Puncheons.

2016 - A mash bill of 70% Pilsner, 20% Unmalted Wheat and 10% Malted Wheat was single-infusion mashed and boiled for two hours with hop pellets. Inoculated with cultures from the 2015 brew and fermented in and aged in two French Oak Pinot Noir 500L Puncheons. Read Less

Amis Pour Toujours (Blend #1)

Wild Ale - American

Translates to Friends Forever and is a collaboration brewed with one of our closest and dearest friends, Brad Clark of Jackie O's Pub and Brewery in Athens,… Read More

Translates to Friends Forever and is a collaboration brewed with one of our closest and dearest friends, Brad Clark of Jackie O's Pub and Brewery in Athens, Ohio. Our shared love of vibrant fruit mixed with our cultures was the inspiration for this wild ale. Fermented in Oak with a blend of cultures from Missouri and Ohio, this Missouri/Ohio Wild ale was then aged on Apricots and Mangoes before being blended and naturally conditioned in the bottle Read Less

Foedre Beer

Wild Ale - American

Blond sour beer inoculated with wild MO yeast and bacteria aged in our 70hL french oak foedre. Only available at The Cellar on the hand pump. The foedre… Read More

Blond sour beer inoculated with wild MO yeast and bacteria aged in our 70hL french oak foedre. Only available at The Cellar on the hand pump. The foedre will be filled, used, and refilled often, so the beer will always be evolving. Solera method style. Read Less

Saison du Blé (Blend #6)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

Saison du Blé is the harmony of a fluffy Wheat Saison and a traditional, rustic Saison with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus. The wheat balances a very… Read More

Saison du Blé is the harmony of a fluffy Wheat Saison and a traditional, rustic Saison with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus. The wheat balances a very dry body with a creamy, billowy mouthfeel, and our house Saison yeast adds complexity and acidity. This farmhouse ale was aged in Chardonnay barrels and a Missouri Oak Foedre for several months. Read Less

Thicket (Blend #2)

Wild Ale - American

For Blend #2, we chose a blend of not only our “Flanders - Inspired” red beer, but also used a touch of our French Oak Foedre Beer, a beer that lays the… Read More

For Blend #2, we chose a blend of not only our “Flanders - Inspired” red beer, but also used a touch of our French Oak Foedre Beer, a beer that lays the base for Fuzzy, and has been aging via a solera method for more than 5 years now. This blend was then moved to Missouri Oak and aged atop more than 3000 lbs of Oregon blackberries from our friends at Decker Farms. The blend and the blackberries were combined in April of 2018 and allowed to re-ferment for almost a year before being bottle-conditioned prior to release Read Less

Grisette (Blend #5)

Farmhouse Ale - Grisette

European hopped Session Blonde Farmhouse Ale aged in Chardonnay Barrels for 6 months with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus

European hopped Session Blonde Farmhouse Ale aged in Chardonnay Barrels for 6 months with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus Read Less

Abricot du Fermier (Blend #3)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

Abricot du Fermier is our delicate and aromatic Saison du Fermier aged with apricots in French Oak wine barrels. The brightness, depth, and rustic character… Read More

Abricot du Fermier is our delicate and aromatic Saison du Fermier aged with apricots in French Oak wine barrels. The brightness, depth, and rustic character are created by the wild yeast native to our family's Missouri farm. This Apricot Saison was fermented in and aged in wine barrels for several months. Read Less

Raspberry Bière du Pays (Blend #1)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

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Blueberry Flanders (Blend #2)

Sour - Flanders Red Ale

Flanders style red ale fermented and aged in Missouri oak red wine barrels with Missouri blueberries.

Flanders style red ale fermented and aged in Missouri oak red wine barrels with Missouri blueberries. Read Less

La Bière de Fantaisie (Blend #1)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

La Bière de Fantaisie is a collaboration ale brewed with our friends at Off Color Brewing in Chicago. Our shared love of the farmhouse ales of Belgium… Read More

La Bière de Fantaisie is a collaboration ale brewed with our friends at Off Color Brewing in Chicago. Our shared love of the farmhouse ales of Belgium and France was the inspiration for this Saison, which is a blend of several puncheon-fermented Saisons that were aged for 6 months before being naturally conditioned in the bottle. Read Less

Saison du Blé (Blend #7)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

Saison du Blé is the harmony of a fluffy Wheat Saison and a traditional, rustic Saison with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus. The wheat balances a very… Read More

Saison du Blé is the harmony of a fluffy Wheat Saison and a traditional, rustic Saison with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus. The wheat balances a very dry body with a creamy, billowy mouthfeel, and our house Saison yeast adds complexity and acidity. For Blend #7, it contains exclusively foedre-aged beer from a Medium-toasted Missouri Oak Foeder Crafters foedre. This was the first fill of this foedre, and the fresh wood imparted fantastic levels of oak that integrated really well into one of our favorite Saisons. A slightly bolder mouthfeel with a creamy vanilla finish lay over the tart body. Read Less

Burk (Blend #1)

Sour - Flanders Oud Bruin

Missouri Sour Brown that was cofermented with crabapples from the Angry Orchard innovation cider house in Walden New York. We brewed this beer with our… Read More

Missouri Sour Brown that was cofermented with crabapples from the Angry Orchard innovation cider house in Walden New York. We brewed this beer with our great and long time friend Ryan Burk, the head cidermaker at Angry Orchard, before racking it to French Oak Puncheons to age a year before being bottled and naturally conditioned. Read Less

La Ruche (Blend #2)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

La Ruche is a delicate Missouri Saison fermented using a blend of our local microflora and a traditional Saison yeast. Blend #2 is brewed with Alfalfa… Read More

La Ruche is a delicate Missouri Saison fermented using a blend of our local microflora and a traditional Saison yeast. Blend #2 is brewed with Alfalfa Honey, fermented with our Native Microflora, aged in Missouri Oak and released in conjunction with the National Honey Beer Summit here in STL. Read Less

Saison du Fermier (Blend #4)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

Saison du Fermier is the harmony of new and old. It is robust and has the paler color of modern saisons yet it is balanced with the brightness, depth… Read More

Saison du Fermier is the harmony of new and old. It is robust and has the paler color of modern saisons yet it is balanced with the brightness, depth and rustic character of the wild brettanomyces and lactobacillus found on our family's Missouri farm. This farmhouse ale was fermented and aged in wine barrels for several months. Read Less

La Fosse (Blend #3)

Wild Ale - American

Sour blonde ale fermented and aged in Chardonnay barrels with Turkish Apricots.

Sour blonde ale fermented and aged in Chardonnay barrels with Turkish Apricots. Read Less

Pulling Nails (Blend #9)

Wild Ale - American

Blend #9 continues to focus on using our diverse sour, tart, funky and oak-aged barrel stock to create a unique beer which couldn’t be produced without… Read More

Blend #9 continues to focus on using our diverse sour, tart, funky and oak-aged barrel stock to create a unique beer which couldn’t be produced without the blending of these individual threads. A little more of an assertive Brettanomyces presence is softened by the Blackberry and Vidal Blanc portions to define what Pulling Nails Blend #9 is.

The official blend:

32% Thicket - Missouri Wild Ale aged on Blackberries for more than a year

18% Oude du Blé - Missouri Wheat Saison - 13 months in oak

20% Foedre #7 - Initial fill date - September 1st, 2017

15% Méthode Traditionnelle - Coolship Inoculated & Spontaneously fermented - 2 years in oak

15% Missouri Saison with Missouri Vidal Blanc Grapes - 1 year in oak Read Less

Blackberry Bière du Pays (Blend #1)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

Blackberry Bière du Pays is our restrained approach to a fruited Saison. We added a thoughtful amount of Blackberries to our Bière du Pays to not cloud… Read More

Blackberry Bière du Pays is our restrained approach to a fruited Saison. We added a thoughtful amount of Blackberries to our Bière du Pays to not cloud the nuances of our lovely, little beer, but to add a layer of soft fruit and color for a new experience. Our Missouri yeast and bacteria provide the layers of complexity to this Farmhouse Ale that was aged in wine barrels for several months before being naturally conditioned in the bottle. Read Less

Pêche du Fermier (Blend #2)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

For the second blend of Pêche du Fermier, after barrel fermentation and maturity of our Saison du Fermier, we racked the beer to mostly neutral French… Read More

For the second blend of Pêche du Fermier, after barrel fermentation and maturity of our Saison du Fermier, we racked the beer to mostly neutral French Oak red wine barrels with peaches and then allowed it to re-ferment to maturity for more than a year. The more neutral oak, when compared to the first blend, offers a softer mouthfeel, allowing the fruit to continue to shine. Unlike most of our fruited beers, where we have been increasing our fruiting rates yearly to find that balance that we desire between our acidity and the fruit, for Pêche du Fermier, we kept the amount of fruit the same as Blend #1 to allow that base beer of Saison du Fermier to continue to shine. Read Less

Rosé du Blé (Blend #2)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

Rosé du Blé is our Wheat Saison that is fermented with wild Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus from our family’s farm and aged in our Missouri Oak Foedre.… Read More

Rosé du Blé is our Wheat Saison that is fermented with wild Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus from our family’s farm and aged in our Missouri Oak Foedre. At maturity, it was racked atop the skins of Missouri Chambourcin grapes, adding the color, tannins and aromatics inspired by the rosé wines of France. Read Less

Tête de Cuvée (Vintage 2019)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

I'm excited to say that the pinnacle of our Saison production is ready! Tête du Cuvée Vintage 2019 is the next in line to release to you after an extensive… Read More

I'm excited to say that the pinnacle of our Saison production is ready! Tête du Cuvée Vintage 2019 is the next in line to release to you after an extensive blending session and a long rest in bottles to pull everything together, achieving that subtlety that is Tête. Named after the "head of the blend" in a Champagne house, we pull together the best barrels and expressions of Saison we have aging in oak. For Oude Fermier Vintage 2019, we experimented with blending younger Saisons, using what we learned to pull together these budding, more vibrant and hopefully more "aging capable" threads for this blend of Tête. The result is a nostalgic hark back to the first ever blend of Tête de Cuvée. This beer is also the first we have packaged with our new bidule caps - caps used in Champagne production to help catch the lees during riddling, but are also better at oxygen scavenging and more effective at creating an oxygen barrier when compared to standard beer crowns. They also create an awesome "POP", that sounds like a corked enclosure when you open them! Our intention is to blend a beautiful beer for the present, while embracing its aging potential.

The official blend is:

Threads of the Saison du Fermier recipe which were aged for more than 1 year in oak, thus becoming Oude Fermier. The blend consisted of 4 brews of Oude Fermier aged in White Burgundy barrels, Neutral French Oak Puncheons, a Neutral Missouri Oak Foedre, a lightly toasted Missouri Oak Foedre, and 225 Liter California Chardonnay Barrels for 13 to 20 months. Read Less

Bookends (Blend #1)

Wild Ale - American

Barrel-Fermented Wild Ale with Mandarin, Lime, Clementine Juice, and Orange Peel. A collaboration with our friends at 4 Hands Brewing Company.

Barrel-Fermented Wild Ale with Mandarin, Lime, Clementine Juice, and Orange Peel. A collaboration with our friends at 4 Hands Brewing Company. Read Less

Saison du Blé (Blend #10)

Farmhouse Ale - Saison

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