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At our brewery we regularly use Belle Saison for one of our main beers and find that a temperature between 24 and 26 brings out the best characteristics. Have found that going too low can leave you lacking in Saison flavour and fruitiness.

Great look forward to hearing how it tastes. We just did another recipe but put the carapils up to around 15%, see if that works.

Has anyone managed to get a higher final gravity with Belle Saison so it's not so thin? I'm aiming for 1.008 - 1.010. Love the flavours it produces but want a bit more body. Tried adding up to 10% carapils and mashing at a 161 degrees but still get a final gravity of between 1.004 and 1.006...

We've been experimenting with the belle saison for a blonde recipe, trying to bring up its final gravity so it's not so thin tasting. I love the lemony, spicy flavour profile but want a bit more body. Best to mash on the high end to get more unfermentables in the beer for that, although still...

Hi beernutz, actually built another one for a 100 litre system with electric heating elements. The 500 litre though will be heated with gas. Will use a temperature controller to switch on and off the gas burner to maintain a steady mash temperature. Plan would be to install the herms coil in...

I'm looking at upgrading to a 500 litre brewing setup and wondering whether it would be a good idea to have the Herms system installed in the HLT, which i've been using with a much smaller setup up until now. Does anyone have any experience with this? Someone mentioned that you just use single...