Saison Dry Yeast Clash! BE-134 X Belle Saison X M29 French Saison

[Alan Reginato]

Hi everyone! I was researching some time ago about saison dry yeasts and many homebrewers swear that M29 is Belle Saison or BE-134 repackaged. So I give it a try, bought one package of each and put to test.

A lot of discussion about it here:

Dry yeasts identified - your opinions please!

The recipe was pretty simple and straightforward.

Pale Ale malt.
OG 1.031
Estimated FG 1.005
Estimated ABV 3.5% (including priming)
Magnum hops @30 min (40 IBU)
BU:GU 1.3 (I like it bitter)

4 Separated fermentors. One should use my "house" yeast to compare, but it got infected . So I just mixed some of the 3 above...

Fermentation started at 28C (82F), (let them shine!) And since the beginning I can tell them apart, easily.

BE-134 was normally phenolic aroma, spicy, clove, cinnamon...

M29 was fruit, with strong banana.

Belle Saison was a subtle spicy aroma, but perceptively weaker than the others.

And the mixed one, well, a mix of them.

I should took pictures, my bad, my bad...

I may update it as it goes.

Cheers!

 

[Alan Reginato]

Bottled it on Monday, finished very dry, all of them. FG 1.000. calculated ABV 4.1%.



Fermentation temp starts in 28 C and dropped to 25 C, after high krausen.



Tasting it, was bitter (as I expected) and the differences in aroma remains in the flavours.



BE 134, phenolic (clove, cinnamon) and spicy. Not over the top, but really showed up.



Belle Saison, spicy, peppery, phenolic, smooth. Milder than BE 134.



M29, fruit, banana, spicy. To me, a crossover between Abbey (made only one beer with this yeast, a lot of banana in the beginning and raisin after matured) and S-33 (if fermented really high, like 33 C. Yep, I did it once. My house smelled like bobble gum for a week)



The mixed, was a subtle mix of all three yeasts. Very interesting.



Now, I will wait a month to enjoy this beers and update this post.



Wish me luck!

 

[Zambezi Special]

Thanks!
I like comparison threads