Miss Saison and Her Surly Sister

[usurpers26]

So Friday was probably the nicest day of the summer up here in CT...what better to do but brew? We popped open the ferm chamber, crap - it is full...seven brews and none ready to bottle or keg. Hmm, ok it's supposed to be in the 80's to low 90's over the next week or so - time to let mother nature dictate!

We figured we'd do a nice 11 gallon batch and split it between two fermenters and rock two different strains (3724 and 3522). Whipped up a nice 2L starter of each and we're off! Kept the recipe super simple and made our own pretty candi syrup (came out a delicious honey color).

22lb Belg. Pils
4lb Candi Syrup
1oz Magnum @ 90
1oz Styrian and Hersbrucker @ 15
1oz Styrian and Hersbrucker @ 0
90 min mash @ 148*
25.7 IBU
1.071 OG

Pitched 3724 --> Miss Saison
Pitched 3522 --> Her Surly Sister

Currently at 80* and the 3724 is going mad - 3522 has a nice krausen but is nowhere near as intense. Smell is already awesome...gonna ramp up to 85* today and 90* tomorrow - bring on the funk

 

[sonetlumiere85]

That's a big saison! I bet it'll taste great.

 

[usurpers26]

So very interesting…now three days into fermentation on these two and the water bath is actually acting as a heatsink!

Makes me wonder if this happens all the time I use a water bath??

The water bath was 75* on day one and beer temp was 72* in both fermenters. Then the bath went to 80* and the beer temp was 78*. Today I put the bath up to 85* and the beer temp is 83*.

Had to plug in the second aquarium heater, time to get this bad boy up to 90-95*

That's a big saison! I bet it'll taste great.

 

[usurpers26]

Day 10 @ 90*

Pitched 3724 --> Miss Saison @ 1.038
Pitched 3522 --> Her Surly Sister @ 1.024

 

[SavageSteve]

Have fun with the 3724!

I'm using that right now for my Saison, and it sure is taking its time-- nearly three weeks now and I believe it's only just getting around to finishing the job.

-Steve

 

[usurpers26]

Day 28 @ 85* (can't maintain any warmer since the weather has cooled)

Pitched 3724 --> Miss Saison @ 1.015
Pitched 3522 --> Her Surly Sister @ 1.015

It may be the end of the road for 3522 but I really hope 3724 can get down to 1.010!

 

[SavageSteve]

Mine finally made it down to 1.010... might have gone lower, but I got impatient and tired of an 85 deg. F. laundry room! Cold crashing now to keg soon, but darn if the yeast are lazy in flocculating too!

-Steve

 

[usurpers26]

What was your OG? I am at 77% attenuation now and another 3-4% will only get me to 1.012-13

Yeah, it was funny to see the two samples next to each other - the 3522 was crystal clear and the 3724 was opaque...at best. They both tasted awesome though

Mine finally made it down to 1.010... might have gone lower, but I got impatient and tired of an 85 deg. F. laundry room! Cold crashing now to keg soon, but darn if the yeast are lazy in flocculating too!

-Steve

 

[SavageSteve]

OG 1.057, FG 1.010. Apparent attenuation 82.5%. I had 18.8 oz. of simple sugars (sucrose and dextrose) in the recipe, so I'm sure that helped it get down.

-Steve

 

[RickyLopez]

So how did they turn out????