Anybody love brewing Saisons??

[dougriddle]

Hells yes! About ready to bottle a Dark Saison...

Awesome! I'm really interested in doing a dark saison, especially after having the Dark Heather Saison from New Belgium last year. Would you mind sharing your dark recipe??

Haven't tried the 3711. Been using the WYeast 3424 & its a bitch...its tough being patient!

[dougriddle]

How about bottle conditioning? I have yet to do it with my two thus far, but am leaning more and more to finishing with some Brett. Any success stories out there?

[jm]

How about bottle conditioning? I have yet to do it with my two thus far, but am leaning more and more to finishing with some Brett. Any success stories out there?

Go for it. I used my house blend (the dregs of every sour/funky beer I buy in a regularly renewed starter) to bottle condition a table strength saison (3711 for primary) and it turned out great even if somewhat out of style.

As for brewing saisons: a friend and I are in a perpetual saison "arms race" where we try to one up each other by riffing on the same basic recipe over and over. Lots of fun and a great style to experiment with since it's so open to interpretation. If you don't have it already "Farmhouse Ales" has some great info.

[Chupa LaHomebrew]

Definitely my favorite family of beers to brew and drink. If you need some more ideas check out the babblebelt.com homebrew forum and just search for saison. A lot of those guys like to play with funk too. Or you can check out my blog link below, I've got a lot of saison recipes I've done on there. Just do saison in the search, I don't think I have them all tagged.

[dougriddle]

How about bottle conditioning? I have yet to do it with my two thus far, but am leaning more and more to finishing with some Brett. Any success stories out there?

Go for it. I used my house blend (the dregs of every sour/funky beer I buy in a regularly renewed starter) to bottle condition a table strength saison (3711 for primary) and it turned out great even if somewhat out of style.

As for brewing saisons: a friend and I are in a perpetual saison "arms race" where we try to one up each other by riffing on the same basic recipe over and over. Lots of fun and a great style to experiment with since it's so open to interpretation. If you don't have it already "Farmhouse Ales" has some great info.

Got It! Its a great book, wish it had some more specifics in terms of recipes, but its helped me understand the style I love much much more.

[brewinhard]

+1 to always having some kind of saison going in my house. I currently have a winter dark saison (16 SRM) inspired by the Odonata session which I pitched a pack of Brett B. and Fantome dregs into. It has been aging in the keg for 4 mos now in my cellar. It was 7.4% ABV upon racking.

[dougriddle]

Definitely my favorite family of beers to brew and drink. If you need some more ideas check out the babblebelt.com homebrew forum and just search for saison. A lot of those guys like to play with funk too. Or you can check out my blog link below, I've got a lot of saison recipes I've done on there. Just do saison in the search, I don't think I have them all tagged.

Dude, checked out those links and they were very cool. Thanks a bunch!

[dougriddle]

+1 to always having some kind of saison going in my house. I currently have a winter dark saison (16 SRM) inspired by the Odonata session which I pitched a pack of Brett B. and Fantome dregs into. It has been aging in the keg for 4 mos now in my cellar. It was 7.4% ABV upon racking.

Did you add any priming sugar when you pitched the Brett, or did you just rack with a few points left to go?