Young's New World Saison

[Orval62]

Has anyone brewed this kit? Had one since June and thought it would be a good drink for Xmas. Seems a quality kit, so started it today. Any one tried it?

[WalesAles]

Not Me!

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[dbg400]

I did this last year, having had a bottle of Mr Dripping's Rhubarb Saison** in a local bottle swap, and I wanted to try doing one. The only other Saison I've had is Bad Seed Brewery's, so not a lot to compare to, but I thoroughly enjoyed the results. It was more hoppy than I think usual for the style, but lots of interesting fruit flavours from the esters. I kept upping the temperature (done in a water bath), starting at 18C and up to 28C by the end. I've moved to doing BIAB now, and hope to have a go at a Saison in the next month or so, but of all the kits I've done this was one of my favourites.


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[Orval62]

Thanks for the info dbg400, not much about it on the forums. I enjoy this style of beer so fingers crossed it will turn out good. How long did you have to leave it before drinking?

[dbg400]

I normally give the bottles a fortnight indoors for secondary fermentation, then crack open the first one as QC a week after they've gone to the garage for conditioning. This was similar to other kits I've done, with it being ready after three weeks in the cold (though the first QC bottle tasted fine after just the one week).

The one issue I had with this kit was syphoning it from the FV to the bottling bucket. The hops in the kit for dry hopping clogged the filter bag on the syphon more than with any other kit I've done. Some of the bottles ended up with 5mm or more of sediment (mainly hop residue) because of the amount of times I ended up re-priming the syphon and disturbing the trub. I had to give up in the end, and chucked the remainder (around five pints)

Since then I've used a cork cage from a bottle of bubbly over the end of the syphon, along with a wire spiral to keep the filter bags (I use two from Festival kits) away from the syphon holes, and I've never had a stuck syphon since then.

[racinsnake]

Funnily enough I put NWS on around this time last year 18/11/14 from my notes
and finished the last bottle last night!!
I barrelled most of it and just bottled a few for laters. It finished at 1012 and I hopped for 5 days it was in the FV for 3 weeks.
It was different and a very nice pint, I'd do it again.

Rob.