Brew Date: Sept 10th, 2017
Bottling Date: Oct 12th, 2017 [Clean version]
This new batch of what I intend to be my ‘flagship’ saison recipe is mostly the same as the first batch, with the following changes: floor malted Bohemian pils in place of Bohemian pils, Nelson fraction of hopping upped to 50%, Willamette addition dropped. I am also using a different yeast this time – Omega’s Saisonstein strain graciously received from a friend. I also increased the bitterness from the low 20’s to the low 30’s.
I brewed a bigger batch so that a fraction would be fermented with a mixed culture in the freshly emptied carboy that contained a brett-conditioned biere de garde. This mixed culture consists of Saisonstein, Upright Anniversary 2017 dreg culture, and Le Castor brett saison culture.
OG: 1.048
FG: 1.000
ABV: 6%
IBU: 33
Recipe:
10.5 lbs Bohemian Pilsner, floor malted [70%]
2.25 lbs Vienna malt [15%]
1.20 lbs Flaked wheat [8%]
0.75 lbs Dextrose [5%]
0.30 lbs Acidulated malt [2%]
0.75 oz Nelson @ 45 min
0.75 oz Motueka @ 45 min
0.25 oz Nelson @ 15 min
0.25 oz Motueka @ 15 min
1.50 oz Nelson @ Flame out
1.50 oz Motueka @ Flame out
Mash Schedule:
145F for 45 min
152F for 90 min (had company over)
170F for 15 min
Boiled 105 minutes
Water Additions:
6g Gypsum in mash water (5.5 gal)
2g Gypsum in sparge water (3.5 gal)
Clean half – bottled October 12th with 3.5 oz priming sugar in 0.7 gal water (total vol now 4 gal, 1.048 corrected OG). FG was 1.000, so I get where the name ‘Saisonstein’s Monster’ comes from now! I wish I had planned better and used a small dry hop but I did not. Next time.