My first saison – a French farmhouse ale. As with so may of these French/Belgiany beers, it’s the yeast that makes all the difference. I used a White Labs liquid yeast for this one. I used my technique of just not bothering to add the extra sugar, keeping this beer down below 6% abv. Just…
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Belgian beers are a bit of a passion of mine. My first foray into ‘proper beer’ was my mate from the south of Holland. He grew up on Belgian beers and one day he said “Here, try this!” It was a Duvel. It was a lot stronger and more bitter than what I was used…