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Author:

Kanu

Boil Size: 14 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.06

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/13/2017 7:15 PM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 74 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 5 oz

Creation Date: 6/7/2021 12:00 AM

Notes: This recipe will pave the way towards a delicious and refreshing Saison. However - as a uniquely yeast driven style - the fermentation temperatures will have a tremendous influence on the final product.

The colour is gold and slightly hazy. The beer is dry and refreshingly crisp with light biscuit and caramel malt body. Wheat brightens the taste and improves head retention for this well carbonated brew. Saison yeast conjures delicious scents of bubble gum, cloves and black pepper.

The hop profile compliments the spicy esters produced by Saison yeast as well as enhance fruity and floral aromas. Note that the hop utilization is adjusted for my own equipment, a boil off rate of 3qts/hour and decreased alpha acid levels due to estimated age of hops.

Using fresh and properly stored liquid yeast, a starter will not be required.

A multi-step mash is employed.

Collect runnings, boil.

Add hops as indicated.

Cool and aerate wort.

Pitch Saison yeast and begin fermenting at “room temperature”, normally about 68-72°F, but whatever the temperature of your room will do.

I add the invert sugar directly into the fermenter when fermentation starts to slow down, around day 3. This ingredient is indicated as being added to “boil kettle” simply so that we can see it added to our OG.

Continue in primary at room temperature for a total of 2-3 weeks.

Bottle priming is traditional for this style. The dextrose for bottling is included in the recipe. Listing the sugar additions this way allows us to see the final alcohol percentage reflected in the recipe data.

Author:

bhive01

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 78

Mash Thickness: 2

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/16/2020 2:55 AM

Notes:

Author:

Sudweeks

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/1/2019 9:18 PM

Notes: Mash for 60 minutes at 151°F
Boil for 60 minutes.

Author:

Kingbaby

Boil Size: 17 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/14/2018 3:44 PM

Notes:

Author:

filthyastronaut

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.052

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/31/2017 5:07 PM

Notes:

Author:

Murtagg

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/14/2017 6:29 PM

Notes: After 3 days bump temp to 67F. Add coconut for 5 days once FG is reached.

Author:

Cookie Cheong

Boil Size: 22 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/12/2017 12:22 PM

Notes: Delayed hopping 15m

Author:

Germainium

Boil Size: 3.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: CO2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/6/2017 3:55 AM

Notes: From distilled water:
CaCl2 (Calcium Chloride) - 7 grams (1.6 tsp)
CaSO4 (Gypsum) - .5 grams - (.1 tsp)
Epsom Salt - 4 grams (.9 tsp)

Fermentation Notes:
Will start at 68F for first 3 days then will dry hop round 1 and let rise to 70-71F for remainder of fermentation dry hopping rd 2 on day 7 and sampling / checking gravity. Will likely use hop bags due to lots of hop trub. Will also cold crash this batch.

Fail #1 - I forgot to pull the yeast smackpack out of the fridge in advance, so at brew start I put upstairs (where it's generally 80) and let it inflate for 4-5 hours.

1. Used distilled water and added salts as described, mash went well and temps stayed right around 152 in the water, around 156 if I put the thermometer in the grain near the bottom. Stirred every 15 mins and checked temps until mash ended. Pulled bag and let drip before squeezing and moving into a pot. Let drain longer and poured that wort while I heated to boil.

2. Started boil and hopped as listed. Finished boil and cooled with an immersion chiller to 160. I targeted 170 but it cools fast so I went with 160 to Hop Stand using a hop bag for 30 mins.

3. I continued cooling to 80 which is about as low as it'll go and transferred via ball valve and tube into my fermenter. I pulled a sample and took a gravity reading which was right on 1.066.

Fail #2 - I forgot to insert the pickup tube in my ss brewtech mini so that sucked but didn't feel like risking oxidization by messing with it. I'll filter it on the way out...

4. I placed my fermenter in my chamber and cooled to about 67 then pitched my inflated smack pack that sat out for about 5 hours before pitching.

Fail #3 - I made another process error and didn't shake the fermenter to aerate. What can I say, it was 1:30am. I realized this the next morning and shook.

5. I left town overnight and came back, fermentation is going and blow off tube in sani water jug is bubbling away. Dry hop 1 will happen tomorrow night 3 days in.

6. Dry Hop 1 went will using a hop bag and stainless spoon to push bag through krausen layer to try and sink it. I raised the ferm temp to 70-71 for remaining ferm.

7. At 7 days I dropped Dry Hop 2 via sani'd bag, and took a sample gravity reading which read 1.014, which was about 5 points lower than brewer's friend had expected. At this point I dropped the temp to 41 to cold crash and left for 2 days.

8. After cleaning, sanitizing, and co2 purging the keg, I transferred from the SS mini using spigot + tubing and filtered through a sanitized muslin bag to catch any hop debris. I clogged the keg last time so was not going to do that again. I also put a screen on the dip tube in the keg to prevent clogging.

8. After a very easy transfer, as all hop trub clumped at bottom, I put pressurized and purged the keg again to seal the lid and set at 2.3 CO2 vols for set and forget method. I pulled a sample and did another reading, and as expected, it was 1.014 meaning it was complete.

Upon initial sample, it was pretty aromatic although not as much as I expected. It has very low bitterness and is very smooth. I'll be excited to try once fully carbonated to see if this came out as Juicy as expected. I really don't like dry hopping in bags, but since last time I lost so much beer/wort to hop trub and also had keg clogging issues, I decided to try it this time. One additional thing it may have helped with is reducing bitterness from the wort/beer not sitting on hop trub for so long. The last batch had a huge amount of trub that was transferred into the keg which I believe increased aroma, but impacted overall bitterness and taste.

Tasting Updates: Beer is smooth but has a bit of a yeasty / alcoholic taste. My belief is that this came from forgetting the yeast aeration step as well as only fermenting for a week before cold crashing. Other than that beer is decent and has notes of grapefruit, faint banana, light citrus. For the aeration issue, I bought an aeration pump kit.

Author:

dan_man

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/8/2017 12:07 AM

Notes:

Author:

srbelow

Boil Size: 12 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.071

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/4/2013 1:33 AM

Notes:

Author:

lyna

Boil Size: 182 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.069

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/25/2016 2:20 PM

Notes:

Author:

avajjon

Boil Size: 54.4 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 76

Mash Thickness: 2.6

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/27/2016 1:28 PM

Notes:

Author:

Winding Valley Brewing

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/7/2016 4:54 AM

Notes:

Author:

Akwitayne

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 63 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/18/2016 2:13 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.054

Efficiency: 77

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 73 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/4/2015 7:35 PM

Notes:

Author:

RasMouSein

Boil Size: 10 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.094

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/25/2015 9:58 PM

Notes:

Author:

chefzach

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/8/2015 3:20 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.068

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/2/2015 12:06 AM

Notes:

Author:

Ed Mittelstedt

Boil Size: 1 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/14/2011 4:30 PM

Notes: This was originally a much more conservative recipe to make an amber ale. Two mistakes happened:

1) I did not use enough water when steeping.
2) I used twice as many hops as I was supposed to.

To save this recipe, I added more DME. I also adjusted the amount of grain in this recipe to reflect the OG.

In the end it turned out as a delicious balanced Scottish Ale.