La Sirène Brewing

For us here at La Sirène, brewing Farmhouse Ales is not about brewing beer on a farm.. it’s more of a philosophy, an approach that honours the origins of Farmhouse Brewing and points towards the ingredients we use, the hyper-local origins of those ingredients, the age-old techniques adopted and working with the seasons to embody the spirit of Farmhouse brewing.
We gravitate towards using simple & natural ingredients in their most natural form such as raw grains and 100% Victorian-grown malts. Our techniques are as old as the brewing style we champion and include open vat oak fermentation, no temperature control (to allow our microbes pure creative expression) and 100% bottle refermentation – similar to that of Methode Champenoise (traditional champagne-making technique).
The jewel in our crown is our Authentic Coolship (Koelschip); a shallow rectangular vessel we purchased back in 2015 and represents the original way of cooling the wort (using the cool night Alphington air) before the invention of refrigeration. This provincial technique – that is more art than science has been credited with creating some of the most complex spontaneous wild ales in history. As Coolship pioneers in Australia & the Southern Hemisphere, presently we have good stockpiles of ageing Coolship wild ales in our large format oak barrels which we will continue to release and share with you as they ripen.