Recipe Critique: Citra Saison

I've always seen it couched in terms of (1) ensuring maximum attenuation by encouraging any extra activity the temperature increase inspires in the yeast, and (2) letting the yeast "clean up" the beer/get rid of fermentation products unwanted in the final beer, much akin to a diacetyl rest. Can't say I know if there's anything to it, but I bump temps a day or two before cold crashing.

In reading this thread, kinda made me wonder about bottling at the homebrew level and if you could use the higher temperature to push out some CO2, and then because you need to add more sugar in the priming step to account for the decreased dissolved CO2, you give the yeast more to work on in the bottle, thereby scavenging just a bit more O2 out of the bottle itself. Can't see that really making a difference, but curious to consider. No way in heck it'd be nearly as effective as purging bottles/kegging, of course.

 

Most people do it with the dupont strains, but even then open fermenting seems to be a better alternative to prevent stalling.

 

I agree with this in theory, but in practice just doing whatever you like has . . . umm . . . consequences.

 

I agree that they can be awesome, but here in the US, they seem to be prevalent. Beyond the noble hops, EKG, and Styrian Goldings, there are a fair amount of new hops that have interesting flavors and aromas to explore, many of which would work well in a dry, slightly rustic Belgian-style beer (or north German tart wheat [Berliner Weisse and Gose] for that matter), that always using Citra or Mosaic in some capacity seems like you're not trying. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough at what's available to me
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Also, 2oz dry hop of Citra for 5gal, is not what I would call reasonably subtle, even though I think it would be a good beer.

 

A lot of people see craft brewers as creative people. Very few of them are. Most are just trend followers. I guess that makes most craft beer lovers happy, because that's what they are as well, so . . .

 

In some capacities, yes. In others, no.

 

I want to get across that I am in no way criticizing your technique, you do you. I have never experienced the stall in either open or closed situations.

 

There is no right or wrong way, as Nietzche said.

Then again, Nietzche may have died of syphilis.

 

The question is did he die the right way or the wrong?