Warm weather's a-comin and there's nothing more delicious in springtime than a refreshing spritzy Saison. So, I've dusted off my old vials of Wyeast 3711 and got a starter spinning for the following stupid messed up recipe.
I was having a bit of a free-form kind of day, and saison is one of those styles that I personally think you can tweak to whatever suits your fancy. So I did. I used a lot of the last bits of the bag in this recipe, so I've called it the Stubend Saison.
It was possibly one of the worst brew days on record for me, unfortunately. There must have been some crusted on gunk on my Birko urn element, so it bloody thing kept cutting out - about every 2-3 minutes, after which I would have to get down onmy hands and knees, reach under the urn, and press the reset button through a conveniently placed hole in the milk crate it was sitting on. It was about as safe and comfortable as it sounds. After doing that 10 times, I drained the still not yet boiling wort into a cube (and overflow into a pot) then scrubbed and cleaned the urn, boiled it for 10 minutes with some cirtric acid and hit the element with a scrubby brush to get the crud off it.
All the wort back in, boil going and it was time to relax a little, have a beer and price mongolian burners ;-) Consequently I came nowhere near hitting my targets, as there was a bunch of water added to hopefully bring the boiling point of the liquor down to stop it tripping the safety mechanism. That didn't work of course. Anyway, it's a strange recipe and a strange brew day, but hopefully it will be a tasty beer.
Stubend Saison (Saison)
Original Gravity (OG): 1.050 (P): 12.4
Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (P): 3.3
Alcohol (ABV): 4.91 %
Colour (SRM): 4.9 (EBC): 9.7
Bitterness (IBU): 23.7 (Average)
73.39% Wheat Malt
18.35% Munich I
8.26% Flaked Corn
1.5 g/L Saphire (4.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
0.9 g/L Saphire (4.7% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
0.2 g/L Chamomile @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
0.1 g/L Coriander Seed @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
0.3 g/L Orange Peel @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
Single step Infusion at 63C for 90 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes
Fermented at 20C with Wyeast 3711 - French Saison
Notes: Flaked corn is Polenta
Terrible brew day - urn kept cutting out bringing the wort to a boil. Added an unknown amount of water - OG is no 1.043.
Added Chamomile(4g), Coriander seed (2-3g) and orange peel (6g).
Loads of protein removed as the urn was dumped, washed and wort put back in for the boil.
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