Giant Sized Saison
Once again, we find ourselves making an almost ludicrous quantity of beer on our undersized homebrew setup. This has been happening more and more often, since our time to brew is limited by all of our other projects (and our actual jobs) and we consistently want a lot of beer to play with. This time, we wanted 10 gallons of saison to go into our 10-gallon barrel, which just passed the four-month mark for the beer that's currently aging in it. That beer was meant to be an American-style barleywine, but considering where it ended up, I would say it's more like a partial-kvass American Tripel, hopefully with lots of funky brett character. I'm pretty excited about it. I suspect that we'll bottle half of it immediately and give the other half a big dry hop to really push the juicy American flavors. While we were at it, we figured we ought to brew some beer that we can drink ASAP. Because we landed on a relatively pale saison this time, we decided to take another shot at a h
