fatmoose
Well-Known Member
So I recently brewed my first partial mash recipe doing a saison. I kept it pretty basic, just 3# wheat LME, 5# pilsner malt and an ounce of bitter orange peel. I missed my starting gravity by a fair margin and ended up with only 1.032, a real shocker for a first time masher I know. I had seen recommendations to include a pound of sugar to dry it out good. This past Sunday it had been fermenting for a week and was at 1.006, I added a pound of corn sugar boiled in a quart of water and cooled. Today I checked the final gravity and it was all the way down to .996! I know you want a saison to finish low but is this good or in any way desirable? The sample I tried out was extremely dry but definitely had some of flavors I got when I drank the Farmgirl Saison that inspired this idea. I'm thinking I'll include some specialty grains next time to try and increase my starting gravity and add a bit more body to the finished product.