Saison!

I just did a LBK (2.25gal) of 2 lb 4oz light DME and cascade hops with the good old Belle Saison dry yeast. Can't wait!

Monty

Saisons are made with whatever the farmer had on hand, so wheat, barley, etc. whatever you have left around can go in. The flavor seems to me to come entirely from the yeast, so it isn't critical. And yeah the hard part with that yeast is NOT making a 10% beer. I shoot for 1.45 OG and hope it doesn'...

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know that the DMS is formed over 160. Interesting

Monty

FWIW, I can tell you the mechanism it uses to make beer (heating to 150 with a step mash, no actual boil) makes beer just fine, I've done it I think 4 or 5 times now (lost track) in my Mash & Boil and it's make good beer every time. Since they will be using steam hops it will be easier for them...

I always wanted to try the Professor's ancient brew he made from that Babylonian bread/beer prayer. Was it Nikasi or something? (we have a Cherokee mound in town called Nikwasi, so I get them confused)

Monty

Hey, I know it has been over a year or so, but I am now retired and moved to my new retirement home, and ready to start brewing again. So just wanted to say Hi, and watch out It is good to see Mashani(Beer encyclopedia man) and others still posting.

So on to doing more saisons. Yay!

Monty

Interesting; This is my standard process for making a 2.25 gallon batch. I never thought of doing it for a double batch. I will give it a try. Once more Mashani blows me away with his great tips. Thanks, man. I do a orange saison using frozen orange juice and figure the orange juice is x amount of s...

Well, since I am just doing a gallon of water plus the DME etc, I cool that down to 90-100 F by putting the pot in the sink in ice water, and then I put a gallon of refrigerated water in the LBK and then pour in the cooled wort and top off with more refrigerated water. Take about 15 minutes total. B...

it will keep for months, you're cool.

Monty

I'm gonna try to do a kolsch like beer. I know I can't do an accurate one using extract etc, but I have to use up this K-97 dry yeast. Also since I am trying to clean up the older hops in the freezer, this will have 1 oz Spalt, which should be close to right, and a 1/2 oz of Palisade to get enough a...

John Sand wrote:Yes, Brewbirds are an important part of this group. I miss them.

Yeah, me too.

Monty

Ya know this is something I think I have noticed and wondered about. As I made more and more batches, something changed. It takes less and less sugar to get compariable carbonation to what I was getting when I started. And all the older more experienced brewers were saying I was using too much prim...

Ok just added hop stand as an option to my process. Thanks for a great discussion on DMS etc. I love this board.

Monty

Ya know this is something I think I have noticed and wondered about. As I made more and more batches, something changed. It takes less and less sugar to get compariable carbonation to what I was getting when I started. And all the older more experienced brewers were saying I was using too much primi...

whoa 2.5 teaspoons? in a 1 liter bottle? I normally use 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon (2 or 3 domino dot sugar cubes - I find sugar cubes to be so much easier to deal with) That is high, I think the PET liter bottles are pretty strong and I've never had one blow, but I don't think I've put that much sugar in ...