Saison #1

First ever all grain beer I made, I also created the recipe. Unless you like smoked beer, like extremely smoke, campfire smoke, do not try this at home! 0/10, I decanted most of it and used the rest to make a BBQ sauce… It had good aroma if you could get past the peated malt and good colour. This taught me about the strength of smoked malts and the dangers of creating a recipe without knowing your ingredients… Also, turns out I do not like smoked beers…

All Grain

 

Brew Info

 

BJCP Style:

25B. Saison

Est Original Gravity:

1.054

Est Final Gravity:

1.006

Alcohol by volume:

6.31%

International Bittering Units:

28.42

Colour:

11.6

Estimated efficiency:

75%

Secondary ferment:

No

Time to awesome drinkability:

5 Weeks

Batch Size Fermenter:

19 l

Grain Bill size:

5.95 Kg

Ideal Carbonation Level:

 2.5g/ l

My Rating:

 0/10

Brew Number:

1

Ingredients

Grains and Wort additives:

  • 4.5 kg Pilsen Malt
  • 1 kg CaraMunich I Malt
  • 300 g CaraAroma Malt
  • 150 g Peated Malt

Hops addition schedule:

  • 25 g Saaz Hops (Bittering, 60 min)
  • 25 g Saaz Hops (Bittering, 20 min)
  • 25 g Southern Passion Hops (Flavour and Aroma, 10 min)
  • 25 g Southern Passion Hops (Flavour and Aroma, 5 min)
  • 20 g Southern Passion Hops (Flavour and Aroma Dry hop, 12 days)

Yeast:

Mangrove Jack – French Saison Teast M29 – 10g

 Water:

Final beer volume: 18 l

Fermenter target: 19 l (trub loss 1 l)

Kettle post-boil Volume: 23 l (sediment loss 4 l)

Kettle Pre-boil volume: 26 l (evaporation 3 l/hour)

Assume 1.25 l/kg absorption: A = 7.44 l

Strike Water: R=Mash @ 3 l/kg: B = 17.85 l

First wort volume: B – A = C = 10.41 l

Sparge water @ 75 ºC: 26 – C = D = 15.51 l

Strike water temp= (0.41/R) x (T2-T1) + T2

                            = (0.41/3) x (T2-T1) + T2

                        = (0.136’) x (65 –      ) + 65

T1 = Current ambient Temperature

Mash Schedule

Saccharification Rest: 65ºC for 70 Minutes

Fermenting

Keep at 23 – 30 ºC for 14 days or until OG has been stable for 24 hours, which ever comes last before bottling.

Carbonate and bottle condition for 3 weeks before drinking.

Notes

Dont try this, not a drinkable beer.