Saison kit?

[Monkeybrew]

Whoops!

[WalesAles]

What's it like on the nose? Mine is smelling good in the FV, but obviously a lot to do with yeast type as much as anything else. I'm considering dry hopping mine with Cascade.

You've planted a seed in my tiny mind with this post, and I now plan to add 40g (2g/L) of EKG pellets to my FV tonight

MB

Monkey Mod,
I thought you were in the ELC already? So this is nothing new for you then, impulse, impulse, must do, will do!
WA

[themadhippy]

monkey why have you chucked a tin of mushy peas into your brew?

[WalesAles]

monkey why have you chucked a tin of mushy peas into your brew?

TMH,
Now you`ve really done it! There will be a million questions about mushy peas benefits to a brew!
Get ready for the deluge of questions!
WA

[Monkeybrew]

monkey why have you chucked a tin of mushy peas into your brew?

Lol, now that you point it out, they do look a bit pea-like!

The pack defo said East Kent Goldings

MB

[widdersbel]

There's a thought - I bet there's a fair amount of fermentable sugar in a tin of mushy peas... Hmmm...

[WalesAles]

There's a thought - I bet there's a fair amount of fermentable sugar in a tin of mushy peas... Hmmm...

Widders,
1.7gr sugar in a 300gr tin of mushy peas!
WA

[GavH]

I dry hopped with 40g of Cascade on Sunday. I weighed the hop bag down with two brand new and boiled golf balls and still it didn't fully submerge. Still, I've been away all week and returned a strong aroma!

[WalesAles]

I dry hopped with 40g of Cascade on Sunday. I weighed the hop bag down with two brand new and boiled golf balls and still it didn't fully submerge. Still, I've been away all week and returned a strong aroma!

Hello GavH,
Why golf balls?
WA

[GavH]

Heaviest thing I had. Just bought today two 30mm stainless steel ball bearings to use in future.

[widdersbel]

There's a thought - I bet there's a fair amount of fermentable sugar in a tin of mushy peas... Hmmm...

Widders,
1.7gr sugar in a 300gr tin of mushy peas!
WA

Is that all? I'm disappointed. So if you made up a 20L batch with, say, 5kg of mushy peas, that isn't even 30g of sugar. That's not going to get you drunk enough for it to be worth drinking something so revolting.

[Louis Macneice]

Coopers pilsner + partial mash/mini BIAB 26/04/14; the mash/BIAB part went as follows:

800g pale 2row
200g wheat malt


Mashed in 3.5 lts of water at approx 60 degrees for 60 mins; I kept the stock pot in a warmed oven to help retain heat, checking every so often.

Heated another 3.5 lts of water to sparge my grain bag in once I'd let it drain; heated to 75 degrees. I dumped the bag into the pot left it for ten minutes and then lifted it out and drained it. After that I left bag in a colander to collect the final run off.

I combined the liquid from the original mash, the sparge and the final run off and brought to the boil, adding 15g of tettnanger for 20 mins and another 15g at 5 mins.

In the meantime in a fermenting bin, I mixed 500g of dry wheat malt extract and 500g of brewing sugar with 3 lts of cold water. Once that was thoroughly combined, I added the 1.7kg tin of Coopers Pilsner extract.

The boiled, hopped wort (approximately 4.5 lts) was then added to the fermenter through a strainer. The whole lot was topped up to 23 lts with cold water.

I pitched re-hydrated Danstar Belle Saison and four hours later it was working away merrily. After a day I covered the FV with a 3 seasons sleeping back and the temp rocketed up so much so that the bucket felt quite warm to the touch. Temp has now dropped back. I will bottle in a weeks time.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

[GavH]

Looks like mine has now finished fermenting at 1.003. Looking to leave it another few of days to clear up a bit more and bottle it into 500ml bottles at the weekend. Looking to achieve carbonation rate of 7g/L (as per Boulevards Tank 7 Saison) which if I am right, means priming with about 1 and a 1/4 teaspoons of dextrose. Beer has been lowered to 18c now so there should be around 0.9 vol in it already.

Can someone check my figures and confirm this sounds about right or am iI miles out? Another calculator I ran suggested priming with 227g of dextrose which would equate to around 5.5g per bottle, which seems a lot, so not sure im running the right numbers? Normally Isticlk to the tried and tested half tspn for ales, a whole tspn for lagers rule, so the number crunching required on this is new territory!

[Monkeybrew]

I racked my Saison on Monday night, and it has dropped a bit more to 1.006 (7.0%).

It tasted slightly spicy with a sour herbal finish.

I'm going to bottle early next week.

Cheers

MB

[GavH]

Got 41 x 500ml bottles yesterday, 3 and a half weeks after initiating it. Not as clear as I had hoped but the sneaky sample I tasted was very flavoursome. Primed with just over a tspn of dextrose and will wait at least 6 weeks before trying it. Fingers crossed!