I brewed this up 8 days ago as my first Saison and just had a taste, it is phenomonal. I never used caramunich before but I like the maltiness it added. I brewed it as posted except added honey at flameout, subbed EKG for Fuggles and used the Belle Saison yeast.
I pitched at 68, let rise to...
I brewed this up a few weeks ago and just bottled half of it. I put 2.5 gallons on 1 oz light oak chips soaked in enough Makers Mark to cover them. It sat on the chips with 4 oz MM as well for 1 week. The other 1.5 will be untweaked and 1 gallon will be NA. It should be interesting to say the...
It's looking like I'll be brewing this tomorrow. I've been eyeing this for a while now, it was a question of getting my resources together.
Anyway I'm going to do 5 gallons approximately broken up as such:
1 gallon NA (father-in-law is on the wagon)
1.5 normal
2.5 with Bourbon soaked oak...
How long do you guy let each step stay on the stirplate for? I'm just building mine now but I'm trying to pick up all the information I can. Is it the standard 12 - 18 hours, then refrigerate/decant?