wowbeeryum
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For my next brew I'm hoping to make a clone (or as close as possible) of an Imperial Saison produced by a local brewery. I contacted the brewery directly about ingredients and they were gracious enough to basically tell me everything. Here is their response:
OG 1.065
FG 1.007
5.6 SRM
30 IBU
Pale Malt 2L 76%
Munich 10L 16%
Wheat malt 5%
Carapils 3%
144F 10min
158F 20min
170F 10min
Rakau 12.7AA 60min 0.415oz/5gallon
Rakau 12.7AA 10min 0.484oz/5gallon
Opal 7.9AA 0min 0.668oz/5gallon
Rakau 12.7AA Dry hop 0.634oz/5gallon
Wyeast 3711 French Saison
I am still an extract/specialty grains brewer so I'm trying to adapt this to what I know how to do. I played around with the hopville calculator and came up with this: http://hopville.com/recipe/1254111/saison-recipes/imperial-saison
I had to change the hop amounts due to the fact that I do partial boils and that the hops are slightly different in AA from rebelbrewer (one of the few places that has Rakau in stock). The OG, IBUs, and percentages in the fermentables look close enough. I could make them exact but I was trying to keep my ingredients to round numbers. The FG is higher than my local brewery's, the color is lighter.
My questions...
1. I know it will make beer, but am I on the right track here (with modifying this to extract)?
2. This seems very light on specialty grains. Do I just use the same percentages they did and call it good? Does it work that way?
3. How do they get the FG lower? The attenuation with that yeast is 77-83%.
4. I looked at other Saison recipes and many of them use plain sugar (to dry out I assume). Is that a necessary component?
Thanks!
OG 1.065
FG 1.007
5.6 SRM
30 IBU
Pale Malt 2L 76%
Munich 10L 16%
Wheat malt 5%
Carapils 3%
144F 10min
158F 20min
170F 10min
Rakau 12.7AA 60min 0.415oz/5gallon
Rakau 12.7AA 10min 0.484oz/5gallon
Opal 7.9AA 0min 0.668oz/5gallon
Rakau 12.7AA Dry hop 0.634oz/5gallon
Wyeast 3711 French Saison
I am still an extract/specialty grains brewer so I'm trying to adapt this to what I know how to do. I played around with the hopville calculator and came up with this: http://hopville.com/recipe/1254111/saison-recipes/imperial-saison
I had to change the hop amounts due to the fact that I do partial boils and that the hops are slightly different in AA from rebelbrewer (one of the few places that has Rakau in stock). The OG, IBUs, and percentages in the fermentables look close enough. I could make them exact but I was trying to keep my ingredients to round numbers. The FG is higher than my local brewery's, the color is lighter.
My questions...
1. I know it will make beer, but am I on the right track here (with modifying this to extract)?
2. This seems very light on specialty grains. Do I just use the same percentages they did and call it good? Does it work that way?
3. How do they get the FG lower? The attenuation with that yeast is 77-83%.
4. I looked at other Saison recipes and many of them use plain sugar (to dry out I assume). Is that a necessary component?
Thanks!