In early 2015, brewers Derrick Morse and Chad Frost set their sights on historic Franklin, Tennessee as the home of Mantra Artisan Ales. Derrick, out of Boulder, Colorado had been brewmaster of a local brewpub for the past few years, creating a complex array of intricate beers earning him the nickname of “mad scientist.”
Chad returned to Franklin from a professional brewing program in Berlin, Germany. With the news that a local brewery would be vacating their facility to expand, Morse and Frost jumped the opportunity. Joining forces with chef Maneet Chauhan, the Mantra team set out to create premium, worldly-inspired artisan beers.
Nouveau is a 7.5% ABV Belgian-style Dubbel Ale. In a world that experiences the present as an anticipated memory, the experiencing-self and the remembering-self become architects of our mental narratives. Life becomes an italicized memory. The beer language that we speak informs our world of the duality of multiple mind-wares. Nouveau is a cultural reality tunnel into a time when beer was consciousness
