anyone done with their saison yet?

[DansBrew]

I started my fermentation on the saturday before fathers day. I had crazy fermentation for 2 weeks, then it slowed in the airlock to about 1 bubble every 20 seconds. Then in stopped completely for 2 days. Tried heating, spinning the fermentor... nothing. Stuck. I ordered Yeast Energizer. Chucked in the recommended dose and voila... chugging away again.
The OG was 6-20-09 1.062
7-6-09 1.024 this is where it slowed
7-13-09 1.020it stalled here
7-23-09 1.014 finishing up

There was a bit of froth still on top, i'm gonna wait til sat or sunday to take another reading and be bottling accordingly. It tasted pretty good today, a little bit of a phenol?(medicinal) taste. If you've had Merry Monks by Weyerbacher, it wasn't as strong as that. I don't mind that taste. I had a lot of Banana Ester during fermentation, I could smell it 2 feet away. I didn't want that taste, though. I'm hoping it will dry out a little, and condition some of that bite away.

 

[Revvy]

Well that was interesting, bottling my saison and brewing so I could pitch on the cake in the same session...it wasn't the smoothest, and I cut my thumb pretty badly openning a hop packet with a knife...but overall it was still fun.

 

[carnevoodoo]

Well that was interesting, bottling my saison and brewing so I could pitch on the cake in the same session...it wasn't the smoothest, and I cut my thumb pretty badly openning a hop packet with a knife...but overall it was still fun.

Who let you play with a knife?

 

[jigidyjim]

I opened one of my saison's today, after only a week of bottle conditioning. I know it's probably too early, but I feel like in order to understand when things are ready I need to experiment and taste things before they are ready.

It's kind of weird - it didn't taste as fruity as it did when I tasted the hydrometer samples. It also had a pretty bitter aftertaste. Actually, aside from the bitter aftertaste, it tasted really plain, and boring, which was surprising because i thought the pre-bottled stuff was pretty interesting.

I'll see if anything changes next week.

 

[Revvy]

This is one beer I HOPE is ready right at three weeks....It's been bottled for a week, and 2 weeks from now is the World Series of Vintage Base Ball at Greenfield Village. Many of us are staying in dorms for the weekend...I am hoping to squirrel away a few bottles of this with me for the evening after the long game day when it gets a little boring.

I also bottled a red, and that too I hope isn't green come game weekend....

(Yes, even Revvy gets impatient sometimes.)

 

[ChshreCat]

This is one beer I HOPE is ready right at three weeks....It's been bottled for a week, and 2 weeks from now is the World Series of Vintage Base Ball at Greenfield Village. Many of us are staying in dorms for the weekend...I am hoping to squirrel away a few bottles of this with me for the evening after the long game day when it gets a little boring.

I also bottled a red, and that too I hope isn't green come game weekend....

(Yes, even Revvy gets impatient sometimes.)

Revvy.... do I need to ctrl-v a lecture to you about beer having it's own timetable and not rushing it and whatnot?

 

[Revvy]

Revvy.... do I need to ctrl-v a lecture to you about beer having it's own timetable and not rushing it and whatnot?

LOL.......I knew someone would say something...that's why I posted it.



But I do hope it's ready by the World Series...and it will a hot weekend to enjoy a nice saison dupont, I filled a few champagne bottles......

Perhaps I will even be able to find someone to share a bottle with, on a blanket in the moonlight. Maybe with a winsome Tallykeeper;

Or a lovely, barefoot lass in lavender...

 

[ChshreCat]

Lookit that hottie!!! She's almost showin' ankle! The slattern!

 

[Revvy]

Woot woot woot!!!

I'm drinking my first one!!!!!

It is delicious. I won't say it really taste like a Saison Du Pont clone...But it is a might tasty and effervescent ale.

It is still a little "hot" right now. But it's carbed and not green. Just has a bit of an alcohol bite. But only a serious beer taster/brewer/judge would pick up on that, and it will mellow out in another week or so. But I can definitely take a couple bottles with me this weekend.

And since I sent it in for judging at the end of august, I betcha it will be perfect by then.

 

[Picobrew]

I just tasted my saison after FIVE count em FIVE days in the bottle. Delicious! Carbed already. Nice and spicy! It spent 7 weeks in the fermenter so you can't call me impatient. I used the Wyeast Saison yeast and fermented hot but had to finish it with Nottingham for a week. I used Jamil's Saison recipe. Loving it so far, can only get better from here. I bottled it in Session stubbies.

 

[Goosta]

Just took a reading on mine last night.

SG 1.071, expected FG 1.021

Currently at 1.023 after 12 days primary. Still needs a good amount of time. The sample tasted really good actually...much better than I expected.

I am still debating a secondary but leaning towards skipping and leaving it in primary for another 2 weeks before bottling (pending the gravity reading, of course). It means I'll have to pitch my IIPA into a carboy but I am nervous about disturbing the Saison.