Barrel-aged mixed-fermentation lager with wild forest honey. It's the meeting of two worlds that rarely get to meet, a beer at the intersection of traditional lagers and mixed-fermentation saisons.

Guiding Light starts with a classic pilsner wort, brewed with heirloom barley malt Barke Pilsner and generously hopped with Saaz and Hallertau Mittelfrüh. It was fermented in the cold of winter, without temperature control or other technological means, with a co-pitch of German lager and French saison yeasts.

This gave a rustic and dry pilsner, more delicate than a saison but with more character than a straight-forward Lager. It was then transfered into one of Le Soupir's barrels that's home to brettanomyces and bacteria for 9 more months of lagering.

During this barrel-aging, they added some wild forest honey made just a few hundred meters from the brewery by beekeeper Jérémy Thomas, which added wonderfully floral and woodsy honey notes.

The end result is a dry and thirst-quenching beer with a delicate tartness, lots of forest and honey aromatics, some funk and a refreshing bitterness with a very elegant ending.