Saison

[Ryanh1801]

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Recipe: Saison
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Style: Saison
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 5.72 gal
Estimated OG: 1.094 SG
Estimated Color: 9.3 SRM
Estimated IBU: 36.4 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
15.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 88.2 %
1.00 lb Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 5.9 %
0.50 lb Caramunich Malt (56.0 SRM) Grain 2.9 %
0.75 oz Magnum [14.00%] (60 min) Hops 27.0 IBU
0.50 oz Sterling [7.50%] (20 min) Hops 5.8 IBU
0.50 oz Sterling [7.50%] (10 min) Hops 3.5 IBU
0.50 oz Coriander Seed (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1.00 oz Orange Peel, Bitter (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
0.50 lb Turbinado (10.0 SRM) Sugar 2.9 %
1 Pkgs Belgian Saison I Ale (White Labs #WLP565) Yeast-Ale

Bottled with turbinado sugar.. This beer is amazing. very easy drinking. I will be making this one again. I used fresh zest and suggest using it, it made a world of difference. I will never use dried zest again. Mash very low and long, you want to try and dry this thing out as much as possible, also ferment higher than normal, I used my bath tub with 85 degree water, and raised it even higher later in the fermentation.

[Ó Flannagáin]

Looks awesome. When you say fresh zest, did you just take an orange and scrap the peel?

[Ryanh1801]

Looks awesome. When you say fresh zest, did you just take an orange and scrap the peel?

yes, they make zesters but I just used a cheese grater. Kind of a pain, but way worth it, it produced a better product. Im gonna be using this on my wit's from now on also.

[Ó Flannagáin]

Hell, I will use this from now on then. I figured they were using some sort of "special" orange.. but that's just stupid. Hell yea, Ryan!

[Ryanh1801]

Just make sure not to get the white stuff, you only want the orange part. You will need a lot of oranges, but hey it makes a great post brew day snack.

[Ó Flannagáin]

It'd be nice to be drinking wits or saisons and eating oranges during the brew day!

[rooster445]

My buddy brewed a Wit and used fresh orange zest. It makes alot better product.

[zoebisch01]

rooster, I have to ask...what the hell is that a picture of?

[BlindLemonLars]

I've found you don't need to cut or grate the zest up fine to get good results. I just use a vegetable peeler, and take nice broad slices of zest. Works great and leaves all the white behind.

Those dedicated citrus zesters are really for people cooking or baking, where you don't want chunks of zest in your food.

[PseudoChef]

rooster, I have to ask...what the hell is that a picture of?

A plate and some screws in his arm from a motorcycle accident ;)

[zoebisch01]

A plate and some screws in his arm from a motorcycle accident ;)

Ahh, ok. It looked like smoke and a weird cigarette collage to me. Now that you mention it I can see the bones after looking reeeeeal close. :cool:

[BrewDoc96]

Looks like a rooster445 leg to me, not an arm.

[rooster445]

arm

[BC Brew-Op]

one thing to mention about the zest is you want to use organic citrus....