adc123
Well-Known Member
About a year ago I brewed Northern Brewer's Petit Saison with 3711. I loved it, definitely my most successful beer to date. Since getting into all grain, I wanted to brew this beer again. I added a bit more grain and changed the hopping scheme to bring out hoppiness as I thought the yeast flavor/aroma was almost too much from my previous batch. After carbonating the all grain recipe up, the beer has almost no 3711 qualities! It is only comparable to my engish bitter i brewed, just with more carbonation. They had the same finishing hops (styrian goldings) but different strains (3711 over west yorkshire). My only guess is my more efficient cooling techniques post boil and my more controlled fermentation temps kept the hops in the beer and prevented more saison esters from coming out in the ferment?