Biere de Mars

Beer Recipe Design
1

Hello anyone and everyone,

Does anyone have a recipe for a Biere de Mars?

Thank you,

~CJ

2

Biere de mars really isn’t a style. If anything, it’s a substyle of another style, Biere de garde, which is pretty loose and open to very different interpretations. It was really just to distinguish/market a beer that was released in March.

Farmhouse Ales has a biere de garde recipe. If I recall, they claimed that this was just a biere de garde with more hops, more wheat, and fermented cooler and more lager-like. Something like pilsner and munich malt, about 35% wheat, 25-30 IBU bittering hops, and a big charge of late hops.

3

I’ve got one here (an Alsatian Biere de Mars that I’ve never brewed) that calls for:

65% Pale Ale malt
20% melanoidin malt
10% Pale Wheat malt
5% Smoked malt

.5 oz Tettnanger (60 min)
.8oz Strisselspalt (15 min)

Belgian Saison yeast

5 gallons, Step mash (144F, 154F, 168F)
OG 1.056, 20 IBU

I hope that helps.

David

4

Thanks!

@sl8w, I appreciate the information, I am new to this and still learning. The reason for the search is I tried New Belgium’s, Biere de Mars and managed to buy out everyplace by my house, so I figured I would try and make some of my own.

@ScubaDave, AKA David. I will try this recipe out this Sunday, I’ll let you know how it goes!

~Charliejon

5

IIRC, New Belgium’s Biere de Mars was brewed with wheat, oats, lemon, spices, and brett. So very different than the farmhouse ales recipe or David’s recipe with smoked malt. Sorta proves the point that this style is wide open. If you liked that one, you could try re-creating it from the ingredients listed on their website.