Subject: Digest for the period 3/15/2005 - 3/16/2005
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:00:38 -0500

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  1. Saison Gravity 


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From: Mike Dixon  Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:48:16 -0500
Subject: Saison Gravity 


Normally I skip the questioning about a particular style on JudgeNet but I
noticed several people talking on another forum about how dry Saisons
finish.  As I normally do, I went to the style guidelines
http://www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category16.html#style16C and I see an OG of
1.048 - 1.080 and an FG of 1.010 - 1.016.

With and OG of 48 and an FG of 10, the AA is ~80%.  That runs afoul of the
latest Farmhouse Ales book by Markowski which suggests an AA of 90-95% AA
(p121) and then later he mentions FG in the range of 1.002-1.008 and AA of
85-90% (p138).

I know that my own Saison recipe finished about 1.012 (84% AA) and should
have been a bit hoppier in the long run, but I was trying to emulate the
style guidelines at the time http://www.bjcp.org/styleguide19.html and
Rajotte's suggestions in Belgian Ale.

I guess the question is do the guidelines for Saison need a second look in
terms of FG?  I have not fully read Farmhouse Ales, but wanted to see what
others knew of the style.

Cheers,
Mike Dixon
Wake Forest, NC
http://www.ipass.net/mpdixon/

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