Brewed this using 2 cans - a Coopers APA and a Wilko Cerveza, plus the Belle Saison yeast (washed yeast from the first 9% Saison) and a hop tea. This was bottled on the 6 Dec - so 9 weeks ago into 12x2L + 1x500ml PET bottles from a starting 26L.
Had the first two large bottles of this over the last couple of nights (using up holidays this week) and am pretty amazed. I think saison is a bit of an acquired taste, but I seem to have acquired it quite quickly :-D.
A really clean, refreshing taste and a very clear beer - the yeast goes down to 1005 or so and so it has the same sort of mouthfeel as a light lager styled brew, like the Coopers Aussie Lager.
Taste is hard to describe, even though this never went higher than 23C, it is really quite different. Closest thing would be the Wherries I did (in error) when it was just too hot in the August heatwave (24-25C). The saison tasts good, the wherries sadly still taste of carbonic acid after being bottled too early.
If I do any high summer brewing this year, Saison seems to be the way forward. I think Belle Saison is a sort of conservative strain of these yeasts, so goodness only knows what a Saison done at higher temps and with a less conservative yeast might be like.
Had the first two large bottles of this over the last couple of nights (using up holidays this week) and am pretty amazed. I think saison is a bit of an acquired taste, but I seem to have acquired it quite quickly :-D.
A really clean, refreshing taste and a very clear beer - the yeast goes down to 1005 or so and so it has the same sort of mouthfeel as a light lager styled brew, like the Coopers Aussie Lager.
Taste is hard to describe, even though this never went higher than 23C, it is really quite different. Closest thing would be the Wherries I did (in error) when it was just too hot in the August heatwave (24-25C). The saison tasts good, the wherries sadly still taste of carbonic acid after being bottled too early.
If I do any high summer brewing this year, Saison seems to be the way forward. I think Belle Saison is a sort of conservative strain of these yeasts, so goodness only knows what a Saison done at higher temps and with a less conservative yeast might be like.