This weekend I will be brewing (hopefully) a saison similar to the one I made last year. It's pretty straightforward as far as recipe goes and I'm using the Wyeast Belgian Saison strain of yeast. (The specialness of it comes from the rhubarb that gets added to the secondary.) The snag is that I didn't really think through the hops situation until last minute and it is quite a hike to the LHBS, so I'm looking for advice.
I think the recipe is pretty standard with 80% pils malt, 10% wheat and 10% Munich or something real close to that.
The hops options I have are Warrior, Saaz, Tradition and Hersbrucker and I'm trying to get something that compliments the rhubarb nicely (or at least doesn't conflict with it...)
I'm wondering if using Warrior for the bittering hop and Hersbrucker for later additions would be a good idea or if I should try some other combo of the above, or if I should suck it up and drive for hops and figure they will cost something like $20 when gas gets included into the equation.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I think the recipe is pretty standard with 80% pils malt, 10% wheat and 10% Munich or something real close to that.
The hops options I have are Warrior, Saaz, Tradition and Hersbrucker and I'm trying to get something that compliments the rhubarb nicely (or at least doesn't conflict with it...)
I'm wondering if using Warrior for the bittering hop and Hersbrucker for later additions would be a good idea or if I should try some other combo of the above, or if I should suck it up and drive for hops and figure they will cost something like $20 when gas gets included into the equation.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!