mash ph of 5.18 at temp of 152 F. mashed for >1 hour and then started mashing out with the additional RO water getting up to 1.75 quarts per gallon with about 6 gallons of filtered tap water. The tap water with an additional 1/4 cabdin tab and about 1.5 tsp's of lactic acid to bring the filtered tap water/sparge water ph of 5.92.
Very pale looking Saison. boiled for 1.5 hours. pitched Gigi's 018 Saison in the 6.5 gallon carboy and the 3711/3724 (WLP dupont) in the other 6 gallon carboy. I pitched the 3711/dupont blend a little warm by not paying attention to the run off after chilling with a kink in the hose (maybe >85-100?). probably gonna get off flavors but I hope not.
Hops were just thrown in so when I collected the bottom of the unfermented beer I couldn't get a good clean wort to test the OG, but the spectrometer read about 1.056 but it is usually 1.048; so probably about 1.050.