Monday, July 27, 2009

Batch No. 17 - Rêve de Wallonia

Rêve de Wallonia (Dreams of Wallonia)

Brewed - July 25, 2009

Style - Saison
Source - Tasty Brew / Northern Brewer

Ingredients:
  • 6.0 lbs. Light DME
  • 1.0 lbs. Wheat DME
  • 1.0 lbs. Dextrose
  • 2.0 lbs. American Crystal 10L
  • 1.0 lbs. Belgian Carapils
  • 1.0 oz. Styrian Goldings (60)
  • 1.0 oz. Styrian Goldings (15)
  • 1.0 oz. Styrian Goldings (0)
  • Wyeast #3724 Belgian Saison
  • 750 ml starter w/ 1/2 cup DME
OG - 1.074
Primary -64 days!!
Secondary - 28 days

Bottled - October 25, 2009

FG - 1.010
Attenuation - 86.5%
ABV - 8.4%

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2.5 gallons spiked with Brettanomyces Claussenii

Date - September 27, 2009
Secondary - 189 days

Bottled - May 19, 2010

FG - 1.008
Attenuation - 89.2%
ABV - 8.65%

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Notes:
  • my first saison!!!
  • Wallonia is the region in southern Belgium where the saison style originated
  • starter was very active prior to pitching
  • slight extension of boil time b/c I missed the 15 min. hop addition
  • used 5 gal carboy and blow off tube
  • airlock activity w/in 6 hours; I will always use a yeast starter!!
  • forgot to add the dextrose at the end of the boil, so the next day I dissolved it in water, boiled to sanitized, cooled and dumped into the carboy (this was about 18 hours after the yeast was pitched; it was already going strong, but went wild when the sugar was added
  • keeping track of fermentation temps, but have mostly been in the low 80's so far


Fermenting away in the kitchen to keep warm



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