Saison de Truite Update
March 27th, 2007 by 
Brian The brett batch was fermenting away when I got home from work last night. It has a much different smell than other beers I have brewed. Less sweet more earthy. You can smell it in the basement, but not upstairs. I closed the door and turned on the fan so it should be ok.
I messed up a bit in splitting out the batches. I measured out how much I put in the brett batch last night. They are new buckets and I neglected to figure out how much volume they held, i guessed 3. They are 5. So, I now have 4 gallons of brett beer and 8.5 gallons of the Saison. Im not sure how the brett is going to turn out but right now I cant see adding more than .5 - 1 gallon to 5 gallons of Saison. That would leave me with about 4 gallons of Saison and 3 gallons of Brett. That second batch may be mixed 50/50 and I can bottle the rest I suppose. Bottom line is that second batch may be supa funky. I guess thats what experimental beers are all about.
Here is the label I have been working on for it. Still needs a bit of tweaking, but I like it.
Posted in Brewing | 
March 28th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Brian, that is one awesome label. Did you make it yourself? I love that black background and then the trout on the line. Perfect.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
[...] That night Matt and I found a bottle of Saison de Truite that I evidently had bottled off the keg last spring and left at my parents place. This bottle came from the batch that I had blended with a batch of 100% Brett C. It had been sitting in a bottle in my parents back room at about 70 degrees for about nine months. To be totally honest I had totally forgotten about the bottle. I believe I had brought it up there for Matt and I to sample in a lead up to our fishing trip. [...]
November 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
That label is great. It makes me want to retire.
So did you build it? because if so… we really need to talk about my website.