Matthew our brewmaster spend many a feverish moment devising, updating and tweaking this beer. All of us did the summer saison dance in the brewery while it was fermenting. Most of us have been tasting it as it has been progressing.
Now for some less silly detail. The recipe is based on authentic Belgain Saisons. We ordered the belgian yeast from White Labs (oh my aching credit card!!) and got in some specialty malt, using prarie pale, malted wheat , caramel & munich malts. In addition Orange peel was added to the kettle during the boil.
It does taste good out of the fermenter.
We'll be doing a few more small batches throughout the summer offering the saison until september after which we should be rolling out our Oaktoberfest.
The saison will be available at some of the better micro friendly pubs & restaurants. Bottles will be available from my retail store.
We do have some bottle winter ale available (sorry i'm just not good yet with this seasonal thing
)We have to package some Pale Ale this week and then next week we should be moving the saison out.
There is the possiblity that we may use the belgian yeast for a small batch of something very special that we may cellar until february. The only clue i'll give you is to double down on this bet. (I just hope we have enough malt!!)
Cheers
Ken
