Hey Guys and Gals! A dry, peppery farmhouse ale. Makes 5 gallons.
Ingredients
- 6 lb Pilsner liquid malt extract
- 1 lb wheat dry malt extract
- 8 oz Munich malt, crushed (steeping)
- 1 lb table sugar
- 1 oz Styrian Goldings hops (60 min)
- 1 oz Saaz hops (10 min)
- 1 pack French Saison yeast (Wyeast 3711 or Lallemand Belle Saison)
- Priming: 3/4 cup priming sugar
Directions
- Steep the Munich malt in a grain bag in 3 gallons of water at 155 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove the bag.
- Bring to a boil, take off the heat and stir in the extracts and sugar. Return to a boil.
- Boil 60 minutes. Styrian Goldings at the start, Saaz for the last 10.
- Cool, transfer to the fermenter, top off to 5 gallons with cold water, aerate and take a gravity reading.
- Pitch the yeast at 68 degrees and let it rise into the mid 70s. Saison yeast likes it warm.
- Ferment 2 weeks, until the gravity is steady. It finishes very dry.
- Boil the priming sugar in two pints of water for 5 minutes, pour into the bottling bucket, siphon the beer over it, bottle and cap.
- Store at 75 degrees for 2 weeks to carbonate.