I love orval! One of my all time favorites, but at $5 a bottle it's a once in a while beer for me. Are there any Orval clones out there?
Orval uses Brett Brux.
Saison Dupont only uses brewer's yeast.
suprchunk said:Orval uses it to bottle, not ferment. At least that is what I have read in countless tomes, and all over the interwebs.
No, that's a separate brewer's yeast, supposedly.
You are correct. I misspoke and was confusing the second fermentation they do with adding before bottling. They ferment with sacc. then rack off and referment with brett. Then they do indeed bottle with a regular yeast. At least from my readings. I'll have to investigate further.
Orval uses it to bottle, not ferment. At least that is what I have read in countless tomes, and all over the interwebs.
Regardless of what strains Orval uses to do their primary fermentation, there is indeed Brett in the bottle dregs. They don't pasterize or centerfuge the yeast out, so it's chock full of all the organisms that make that beer taste great..
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