Brew Recipe advice (Saisonish)

[Joseph allis]

So im thinking of just using what i have on hand to make a kind of lowish ABV Saison (Partial Extract) with the following ingredients:

Black Rock Light Malt Extract 1.5kg

Caramalt 0.5kg

Munich Malt 0.75kg

Belle Saison Yeast

Dextrose (?)

along with some combination of:

Nelson Sauvin Hops

Styrian Goldings Hops

also open to other additions.

So the questions are:

How are we looking in terms of fermentables?

What should i do with the hops?

Any other advice for this?

Cheers,

Joe

[cjmc]

I've made this to okish success as feeder to a higher ABV saison.: http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/SaisonLite139

You could replace the pils grain with the LME but leave out the caramalt -- not sure if a saison is meant to sweet.. Add in dextrose to dry it out.

Use the hopping guide matching the iBUs with the replacement hops but Note well the receipe above has a typo for the AA% of the hops...  Vanguard has a usuall AA% of 5% so the recipe above I assumed they were 6% rather than the 16%  listed...must have been a typo...

I think either hops would be fine.-- Styrian is traditional but I would use the Sauvin hops...  (I'm a big fan of Number 8's Sauvin Saison...)

[Joseph allis]

Thanks for the replies guys, this has been pretty helpful. I went out and tried the 8wired Saison and wasnt blown away by it, so im thinking i might have a bit of a turnaround and turn this into an IPA with a few more hops, but still go with the belle saison yeast. Hopefully comes out with something drinkable.

Looking at this sort of thing:

http://hoptronbrewtique.com/Blog/tabid/111/Post/787/RECIPE-OF-THE-M...

mainly with the hop profile, any sense in dryhopping as well, or would that just be overkill?

Cheers,

Joe