hello ladies and gentlmen,
I made the mistake of undersparging with a dark saison the other day and ended up with about 5 instead of 6 gallons in the fermentor by the end of the brew day. the wort tasted too bitter about 1/2way thru the boil. I added a 1 lb fig puree to the boil near the end (this is a fig saison experiment); hopefully this will round out the flavor. I think I also may have put too much midnight wheat (about 4-5%) in the grist.
henceforth, my thoughts are to blend a light saison (4.5-5.5%abv) into this. Does anyone have any thoughts as to how i should design the recipe for the blending beer? I want to keep it pretty basic to make it easy to blend with. I'll hop similarly to the dark beer (and probably less).
thanks!
I made the mistake of undersparging with a dark saison the other day and ended up with about 5 instead of 6 gallons in the fermentor by the end of the brew day. the wort tasted too bitter about 1/2way thru the boil. I added a 1 lb fig puree to the boil near the end (this is a fig saison experiment); hopefully this will round out the flavor. I think I also may have put too much midnight wheat (about 4-5%) in the grist.
henceforth, my thoughts are to blend a light saison (4.5-5.5%abv) into this. Does anyone have any thoughts as to how i should design the recipe for the blending beer? I want to keep it pretty basic to make it easy to blend with. I'll hop similarly to the dark beer (and probably less).
thanks!