Non-Saison Wyeast 3711

[Bosworth]

Hi all,

Longtime reader here, thanks to everyone for the massive amount of advice on the site!

I kegged a saison last Sunday with Wyeast 3711, started at 67.5 F for a couple days and slowly stepped up to 75 after a week. When finished, 3711 took it from 1.057 to 1.002 with no sugar in the recipe. I'm liking how it tastes so far so I decided to wash(rinse) the yeast.

Has anyone had luck using 3711 for styles outside of saisons? I've done some searching and it seems this strain is almost always saisons with the occasional dark strong or tripel. I was leaning towards trying a dark strong but if the 3711 is going to leave a lot of the pepper and lemony notes maybe I'm best using a more style specific strain and using the washed yeast for a petit saison or cider or something. Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[poptarts]

At lower temps that yeast is fairly clean and wine like. Overall very mild saison flavors.

 

[rickyjphillips]

I know Jester King uses this yeast in their Belgian Stout... I'd imagine it can work for anything that you want to finish really dry. I'd see no problem in using it as a Belgian IPA yeast or a Belgian Pale Ale.

 

[Cider123]

You could add a couple lbs of flaked wheat to your siason recipe and make a siason wheaton as they offer in kit at Northern Brewer.

 

[Bosworth]

I know Jester King uses this yeast in their Belgian Stout... I'd imagine it can work for anything that you want to finish really dry. I'd see no problem in using it as a Belgian IPA yeast or a Belgian Pale Ale.

Yea, I like the idea of a Belgian Pale or blonde, as well as a dark Belgian. Or was thinking about blending the 3711 with something American, lot of late hop additions for a farmhouse APA concept. Didn't know Jester King uses this strain, that's cool.

 

[Indian_villager]

Stone uses 3711 to turn Stone IPA wort into Cali Belgique.

 

[Brettomomyces]

Stone uses 3711 to turn Stone IPA wort into Cali Belgique.

Did not know that, interesting. I'm going to be sitting on a cake of 3711 in a week...thanks for the info

 

[rickyjphillips]

From everything I've read stone uses WLP570 in Cali-begique... They originally used their IPA grist to build up a yeast starter for Epic Vertical series.

 

[serum]

If you ferment low you could do a good amber biere de garde with a mix of munich and pilsner and hopping to about 20-25 IBU.

Something like Ambree D'Esquelbecq, which is from the brewery this strain allegedly originates from.

 

[BlueHouseBrewhaus]

I did a tripel with 3711. Ramped it up to about 80F. It came out very nice. Spicy with a very smooth body and just a bit of warmth for a brew that ended with FG 1004 at 9.7% ABV. Probably not at all to style but I loved it.