Averagely Perfect Saison - Poll #12 - Unmalted Wheat and/or Rye

The previous poll (#11) determined that the main base malt will be Belgian Pilsner Malt.

This poll (#12) will determine whether Unmalted Wheat or Unmalted Rye, or both, will advance to compete with/against winners of subsequent polls (Rye Malt and/or Wheat Malt, and Munich and/or Vienna Malt). (See poll #10 for a refresher.) This poll is before those others because Unmalted Wheat and/or Rye got more votes than those.

This is a straight plurality poll. Consider jumping ship to your second choice if your first choice is losing.

I recommend you think about this in terms of not only your personal preferences, but also in the context of the ABV, Final Gravity, Yeast Strains, and Base Malt already selected.

This poll will be open for 48 hours.

(For those who don't know what I'm talking about, see these threads for the first two beers we did (and the bazillion ensuing polls and the final recipes...
http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/the-averagely-perfect-american-ipa-project.59552/
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/averagely-perfect-american-stout-poll-1-abv.131209/ )

Issues with methodology? Take 'em to beermail please.

The Averagely Perfect Saison so far...

ABV: 5.7%
OG: 1.045
FG: 1.002

Grain Bill:
Belgian Pilsner Malt
Unmalted Wheat and/or Rye (potentially in, this poll and later polls)
Rye Malt and/or Wheat Malt (potentially in, later polls)
Unmalted Oats (potentially in, later poll)
Munich and/or Vienna malt (potentially in, later polls)

Yeast: WLP565/Wyeast 3724, followed by WLP644 in primary, sometime before attenuation is complete (exact timing TBD).

 

Also, just to be clear... If a combo of two ingredients wins this poll, those ingredients go forward together, inseparably in future polls.

 

No, you got it.

It was decided in a previous poll that Unmalted Wheat and/or Unmalted Rye would advance to compete. Neither is necessarily in the recipe. That's still TBD. This poll is simply determining what wheat/rye adjunct(s) will advance. If you want neither, there will be a chance to say that later. See the explanation above and in poll #10.

This is all intended to get from the original list of malts/adjuncts to the end in a reasonable (subjective I know) number of polls, while allowing the most popular malts to advance, but also to compete with each other in some sort of context. i.e. to not simply take the 3 or 4 most popular grains and jam them in the recipe together.

Think of the first basic grains poll as a signature petition for candidacy. The series of polls we're doing now (staring with this one) are the primaries. The strongest (primary winners) will then be considered in context, with and against each other, in the final election. Not the strongest analogy, because the final election may have more than one winner, but that's the gist.

 

Flaked Wheat advances to the general election.