Elderflower saison

[svenito]

Here's my first saison and its recipe

FERMENTABLES:
4.6 kg - United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale (83.6%)
450 g - American - Caramel / Crystal 60L (8.2%)
450 g - German - Melanoidin (8.2%)

HOPS:
7 g - El Dorado, Boil for 60 min

7 g - El Dorado, Boil for 30 min
19 g - El Dorado, Use: Boil for 5 min
28.3 g - El Dorado, Use: Dry Hop for 7 days

OTHER INGREDIENTS:
28.5 g - Elderflower, Time: 5 min, Use: Boil
34 g - Elderflower (steeped in 4cups boiling water for 5 min), dry hop

YEAST
Lallemand saison yeast

Turned out really nice. Dry, fizzy, with lovely Saison notes and subtle elderflower notes. Very pleased with this one.

Only thing is that I tweaked my kit a bit and exceeded my OG resulting in a 6.7% beer instead of the original 5ish%. But it did finally give me a decent efficiency :)

 

[Clint]

Flake!!¡!!!

 

[svenito]

Flake!!¡!!!

Haha, that exactly what my friend said too :)

 

[Hoddy]

If you ever want a really good commercial example to compare against look out for “Printemps” by Unity brewing. A great elderflower Saison.


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[Dads_Ale]

Still time to enter it into the July competition :)

I am partial to a saison

 

[MickDundee]

Still time to enter it into the July competition :)

I am partial to a saison

Mine will be coming soon. It might even be posted tomorrow, I wasn’t well before I came off work on holiday and only got home today.

Edit: for some reason I thought I was in the competition thread. To the OP, this is interesting. Not saison related, but I’m quite interested in using elderflower in beer. I’ve always been a big fan of Williams Bros Birds & Bees, and this week I’ve been in Aviemore drinking a lot of Cairngorm Trade Winds. Both use elderflower and was thinking of making something similar - maybe a pale with cascade and elderflower.

 

[svenito]

Still time to enter it into the July competition :)

I am partial to a saison

Off on hols, so won't make the entry I'm afraid, but hopefully another competition one day

 

[NIGHTSKY BREWING]

Sounds lovely.....where do you buy your Malts & hops etc.

What program...Beersmith or B friend etc.

what water profile do you use.......

cheers matt

 

[svenito]

Sounds lovely.....where do you buy your Malts & hops etc.

What program...Beersmith or B friend etc.

what water profile do you use.......

cheers matt

These malts were from geterbrewed, but I also shop at the malt miller.

I use brewersfriend for everything.

Water profile for this was https://www.brewersfriend.com/mash-chemistry-and-brewing-water-calculator/?id=554H5X4

 

[NIGHTSKY BREWING]

Many Thanks ....lov your style.

 

[Portreath]

I've never tried Saison, but that brew looks well tasty.