Fernson Brewing Company
Founded in 2015 by Derek Fernholz and Blake Green — who connected through a mutual contact while separately developing brewery business plans. One of South Dakota's first craft breweries, Fernson quickly became the state's most decorated, winning gold at the 2018 World Beer Cup for their Farmhouse Ale — a homebrewing recipe Fernholz never managed to improve upon. 'Humbly made with people in mind. Proudly brewed in South Dakota' — with a focus on locally sourced ingredients and agricultural heritage.
Beers by Fernson Brewing Company
4 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Fernson Brewing Company brew a broad range across 4 style families.
Across these 4 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Fernson Farmhouse Ale
Their beers place in the Top 53% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Fernson Brewing Company
Founded in 2015 by Derek Fernholz and Blake Green — who connected through a mutual contact while separately developing brewery business plans. One of South Dakota's first craft breweries, Fernson quickly became the state's most decorated, winning gold at the 2018 World Beer Cup for their Farmhouse Ale — a homebrewing recipe Fernholz never managed to improve upon. 'Humbly made with people in mind. Proudly brewed in South Dakota' — with a focus on locally sourced ingredients and agricultural heritage.
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