SYLVANYS

THE LEGEND

Silvanus was the Roman god of forests, fields, and boundaries. Unlike the great Olympian deities who demanded marble temples and elaborate ritual, Silvanus was worshipped at the edges of things: the border between farm and forest, the threshold between the cultivated and the wild. His shrines were simple stone markers at property lines, and his offerings were milk, honey, and the first fruits of harvest.

He was a protector deity, but his protection had conditions. Respect the boundary. Do not take more than the forest offers. Do not clear what should remain standing. In Roman agricultural religion, Silvanus represented the negotiation between civilization and wildness that every farmer lived daily.

The name Sylvanys adapts this ancient forest spirit for the Kölsch tradition. Kölsch is itself a boundary-dweller: fermented warm like an ale, conditioned cold like a lager, belonging fully to neither category. It is brewed exclusively in Cologne by tradition, a beer of place and boundary.

Sylvanys carries that liminal quality. Malt, honey, apple, and pear vanish on the tongue like morning fog retreating through birch and fern. At 4.8% ABV, it is pale and elusive, a woodland spirit that appears at the edge of your vision and is gone before you can name it.