Crab Saison

Saison 6.0%
Bottle conditioned, in 375 ml champagne bottles.
Release date September 2014.

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Brewed on: 15.8.2014. Bottled: 9.9.2014 onwards

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What do you drink with Cromer Crab and seafood? Saison! This Belgian farmhouse style ale is flavoursome and refreshing with a tartness from the yeast to give it an edge that compliments good food.

Design

Designed to accompany Cromer's famous sweet crabs that are landed on the beach here from Easter to the late summer or autumn. A glass of this will grace your table or picnic. This has a light hopping with North Norfolk wild hops and late hopped with Citra to produce an easy drinking pale ale. This brew used a different yeast to previous ones - Belle Saison dried yeast - and it has a dry, peppery finish and has flocculated well to leave the beer very bright.

Tasting notes

A very clean, crisp, tasty pale ale with a good head and that characteristic smack of saison yeast.

This beer is produced without the use of any finings, filtering or pasteurisation and it is bottle conditioned, so all the flavours of the ingredients are preserved for your enjoyment. Serve cool and avoid disturbing the natural yeast deposit if you prefer a clearer drink. Gluten free and tested (negative) on 15.9.2014.

Further tested by an independent lab on 30.9.2014 using the Ridascreen Gliadin Competetive ELISA R7021 test and it registered less than 10ppm.

Thirty litres were placed in an oak cask for maturing in the wood for 3 months and have been released under the title 'Je Suis Charlie' (follow link)

Martin Warren, The Poppyland Brewer
24.2.2015