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I was in a supermarket in the Netherlands last week looking through the selection of Belgian beers and saw two beers from St. Feuillien which were, according to the information on the bottles, bottle conditioned and unfiltered.
I had a look and there was indeed a lot of yeast in each bottle so I got the idea to harvest some.
The beers in question were the Saison and Grand Cru.
I have already successfully harvested the Grand Cru yeast; using the dregs from 3 bottles I had activity after 2 days and now after 4 days a nice thick layer at the bottom of a glass jar.
Anyway my question is if anyone knows what yeast they use for the Grand Cru and Saison?
I have seen clone recipies for their Triple and it should be the Westmalle strain like WLP530.
I guess they use the same for their Grand Cru?
I haven't tried the Saison yet but read on here it is quite sweet for a Saison; is that related to the yeast or their grain bill/mash schedule?
Maybe they are also using WLP530 for that which has a high attenuation but not to the levels of a traditional Saison yeast.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks
I had a look and there was indeed a lot of yeast in each bottle so I got the idea to harvest some.
The beers in question were the Saison and Grand Cru.
I have already successfully harvested the Grand Cru yeast; using the dregs from 3 bottles I had activity after 2 days and now after 4 days a nice thick layer at the bottom of a glass jar.
Anyway my question is if anyone knows what yeast they use for the Grand Cru and Saison?
I have seen clone recipies for their Triple and it should be the Westmalle strain like WLP530.
I guess they use the same for their Grand Cru?
I haven't tried the Saison yet but read on here it is quite sweet for a Saison; is that related to the yeast or their grain bill/mash schedule?
Maybe they are also using WLP530 for that which has a high attenuation but not to the levels of a traditional Saison yeast.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks