First dual brew day

[brandont]

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Saison: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/251685/saison-finale

Pale: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/244853/pale-mammoth

 

[MattyIce]

Sweeeeeet

 

[Rkb1983]

Cool! Never thought to do a smaller batch alongside, I guess the only real trouble would be cooling. How did you cool them both at the same time?

And I've never made a saison, but when I was looking at them, it seemed that the yeast gets lower than 1.010. Maybe that saison will end up being even higher ABV.

 

[brandont]

They actually got done at the exact same time since the larger batch was only a 45min boil. Not planned that way but it worked fine. There was a lot less wasted time which was the real point. Cooling was done with my chiller one at a time starting with the small batch. It only took maybe 10min to get to about 80, which got down to 70 once I added top up water. While I was doing that and taking readings the bigger batch was cooling.

This is my second Saison batch and I'm reusing the yeast from the first. The previous one went from 1.058 to 1.009 but that one had about 26% of the OG in specialty grains. This one only has 17% in grains and 11% of plain corn sugar so hopefully its more fermentable. Trying to hit a lower FG and lighten the body a bit. I've also lowered the wheat DME in an effort to lessen the clove flavor.