Rustic Roots
July 27'th, 2023
This artwork was featured on the label design of one of my Hopsylvania beers, brewed in collaboration with Higgins Ale Works. Inspired by traditional farmhouse brewing, I couldn’t help but be reminded that as humans we’ve been making beer far before we even had metal tools or vessels. Back then we mostly relied on wooden tools, such as brewing paddles, fermentation vessels, and barrels. With time these would become infused with many microorganisms like bacteria and wild yeasts, which at the end of the day are just fungi that decompose sugars, much like their land cousins who decompose wood and create the fruiting bodies we know as mushrooms.
This illustration © 2023 by Radu Luchian is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
