Foeder

A large oaken barrel used for either long term fermentation or primary fermentation, particularly for wild farmhouse and sour beer styles. Pronounced FOOD-er and sometimes spelled foedre or foudre.

Learn more about foeders here and here, but first watch this cool time lapse video of New Belgium's legendary foeder forest being built:

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