Questions tagged [saison]
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Lowering Est FG before Brew
I am planning out a Saison and trying to hit the traditional guideline numbers.... I need to get the East Final Gravity down below 1.008 - I am currently way too high. The changes I keep thinking to ...
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Droping beer with Brett in Carboy
I brewed a Belle-Saison and it's been in a carboy for 1 month now. Someone with a lot of experience told me he once bought a beer with Brett (Beer was "Orval") and droped the last 100ml into his ...
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Finicky Wyeast 3724 Stall
Looking for some useful suggestions. I’m a veritable noob when it comes to brewing. I’m on my second brew and already trying to experiment with my own recipe albeit sticking to extract / specialty ...
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Bringing Cold Crashed Beer to Room Temperature
So I cold crashed and force carbed a saison recently, but after trying a glass I realized that it might be a little young and too funky. I took the keg out of the fridge and let it warm to room ...
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Can saison yeast use lactose?
As title states, the question is can Saison yeast use lactose?
i.e. is it possible to sweeten a Saison with lactose? Or, sweeten it possibly some other way?
This is about Saison yeasts, dry or ...
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Process and timing to detect a stalled fermenation in order to add more yeast (repitch)
Working with a 1.060 original gravity wort, mashed at 152F, and using the WLP565 Dupont yeast (that is known to stall), when should the brewer investigate if adding a secondary strain of yeast will be ...
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Why is lemon zest undetectable in my beer?
I brewed a saison and added lemon zest for the last five minutes of the boil. At the time, it seemed like a lot of lemon zest, but I was following a recipe. The beer was in primary for a week, ...
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What kind of contamination shows a white film with dots in secondary?
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Okay, so around month ago I made a saison with some mixed frozen strawberries (1 week in the freezer) added to the primary fermentation (fermented with S.Cerevisiae strain). After three weeks I'...
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Can a homebrew with a FG of less than 1.000 become infected?
My 100% pilsner mashes that are fermented with Wyeast 3711 French Saison routinely hit a FG of 0.996.
If bacteria contamination was introduced after fermentation was complete, is it possible for the ...
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How to remove sediment?
So I did my first ever beer and it was to be a hoppy Saison (3724 combined with Amarillo, Centennial and Cascade). I had tons of stuff going wrong while boiling, even not managing to temperature crash ...
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Is it safe to put two fermwraps on top of each other over a fermentor?
Last month I made a few saisons at 80°F (27°C), and was able to maintain that temperature with a single fermwrap. Now, for some reason, a single fermwrap is only getting the temperature to 72°F (22°C)....
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Making a French Cider
Ahoy!
I've been making ciders for last year (with more experience on beers and meads). Two things happened. I tried a french cider couple a month ago and I liked it to the point, that I won't mind ...
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Bottle Conditioning with Saison Yeast - Any adjustments to priming sugar necessary?
I have 6 Saisons brewing, three using Wyeast 3711 French Saison and three using Wyeast 3724 Belgian Saison. The final gravities on these have been my lowest ever for any batch of beer.
The 3711's ...
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Is my frozen yeast okay?
So I harvested my yeast for the first time (WLP566 Saison II), but I left the fridge temp mega low by mistake and it froze overnight. I have immediately thawed it out, but I am wondering if it now ...
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White lab Saison yeasts and diacetyl, ever had a "buttery" problem?
I just pitched my first Saison, using WLP 565 24 hours ago. Bubbling nicely. I'm worried about diacetyl, am I paranoid? Aroma section of the beer judging style guide says "no diacetyl" in the aroma ...
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