Local Brewers

One of Henry the IV's little places...

Yesterday morning all us including Kate's 2 new guests Liz and Roberta went to the Estillac market which is by far the best open market I have been to yet, although I didnt take any real photos of the market I did take some really cool photos of the architecture around the village.

I also found my first local brewer, Manfred who was from Bavaria with Austrian roots and moved to France for what reason I do not know. He was very nice and spoke great english, unfortunately his 2 different beers were nothing special and rather watery. Later on we got some information form Christian Chapolard about another brewer out in the country so we decided to go stop in. The brewers name was Sebastian and lived in a small house that he built by himself along with his wife Stephanie and his too daughters. He has a very modest farm where he produces only what he needs for his beer. The thing is, he makes his beer out of hemp...which I have never heard of  but apparently has been going on for a long time and makes sense since hops, hemp and cannabis is all in the same family, why not hemp. His beer is called natural mystick and a very well rounded solid beer. here are some photos of the day:

Sebastian being very generous and inviting us into his home

don't worry I have some to bring home guys...

Sebastian, Stephanie, and his 2 daughters

Sebastian's home that he built by himself with mostly green materials

raw hemp that Sebastian strips all by himself, by hand, absolutely insane, but very nice to see a local brewer that is creative and hard working, especially how hard it is to be a one man brewery in one of the biggest wine regions in the world.