French Strissellspalt Hops

[ThatVideoKid]

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Went to pick up Pilsner malt and a couple ounces of styrian gouldings, bust stumbled upon these!

With almost a 1/5 acid ratio, I had to check it out.

I plan on making a decent sized saison, 1.060 hoping to get down to 1.006. All Pilsner malt.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experiences with this hop? I'm looking to get a good balance.

 

[beergolf]

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Went to pick up Pilsner malt and a couple ounces of styrian gouldings, bust stumbled upon these!

With almost a 1/5 acid ratio, I had to check it out.

I plan on making a decent sized saison, 1.060 hoping to get down to 1.006. All Pilsner malt.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experiences with this hop? I'm looking to get a good balance.

One of my favorite saison hops. Very traditional flavor.

This is one of my favorite saison recipes, Tastes just like I would expect a rustic saison to taste.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=504234

 

[zmanzorro]

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Went to pick up Pilsner malt and a couple ounces of styrian gouldings, bust stumbled upon these!

With almost a 1/5 acid ratio, I had to check it out.

I plan on making a decent sized saison, 1.060 hoping to get down to 1.006. All Pilsner malt.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experiences with this hop? I'm looking to get a good balance.

Martin House Brewing in Ft Worth uses it in their River House Saison and it works pretty well!

 

[ThatVideoKid]

One of my favorite saison hops. Very traditional flavor.

This is one of my favorite saison recipes, Tastes just like I would expect a rustic saison to taste.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=504234

Awesome! Since these are below the typical AA range, I will probably only use them for late additions, but it shouldn't change much. Will probably do this as a SMaSH saison with 12lb pils and these hops(ignoring the small 60min addition of my usual bittering hop, horizon). Will be using 3711 to keep with the French theme, and because I have a cake of it coming soon.

 

[ThatVideoKid]

Anyone have ideas on how much to use? I want the hops to be moderate but to let the yeast shine of course. I have 2oz and plan to do a 10min and flameout addition.

The AA is extremely low, but the BA are higher than usual for this strain.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

Anyone have ideas on how much to use? I want the hops to be moderate but to let the yeast shine of course. I have 2oz and plan to do a 10min and flameout addition.

The AA is extremely low, but the BA are higher than usual for this strain.

I wouldn't worry about the hops over powering with only two additions. I doubled the amounts you plan to use and used them at similar timing and the hops were very subdued(in a saison).

 

[ThatVideoKid]

I wouldn't worry about the hops over powering with only two additions. I doubled the amounts you plan to use and used them at similar timing and the hops were very subdued(in a saison).

So an ounce at 20-15ish and and ounce at flameout should be good?

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

So an ounce at 20-15ish and and ounce at flameout should be good?

I just went and double checked my notes for the saison I used FS hops in. So I hit 1.062 with Belle Saison that finished under 1.005.

My hop schedule was:

1oz Hallertau FWH
1oz FS 1.3% at 5 minutes
2oz FS 20 minute whirlpool
1oz FS 5 day dry hop

I drank (a lot of it) fairly young since it was a tasty beer and I didn't note any particularly strong hop character nor did anyone who tried the beer. It could be that the aroma/flavor quality of FS are similar to some of the ester/phenol character you get from some saison strains. I think its just a rather mild hop in general.

 

[ThatVideoKid]

I just went and double checked my notes for the saison I used FS hops in. So I hit 1.062 with Belle Saison that finished under 1.005.

My hop schedule was:

1oz Hallertau FWH
1oz FS 1.3% at 5 minutes
2oz FS 20 minute whirlpool
1oz FS 5 day dry hop

I drank (a lot of it) fairly young since it was a tasty beer and I didn't note any particularly strong hop character nor did anyone who tried the beer. It could be that the aroma/flavor quality of FS are similar to some of the ester/phenol character you get from some saison strains. I think its just a rather mild hop in general.

Okay thanks, well I'll put 1oz flavor and 1oz aroma and if I find its lacking I can always do a small dryhop of styrian gouldings