Saison Recipe

With one base recipe, you can create many distinct saisons just by manipulating the hopping. Here we’ve used Liberty and Hallertau to create a saison that has a spicier and slightly more fruity hops flavor and an herbal/floral aroma.

Here’s a simple saison. The Mandarina hops give a bright herbal citrus nose on top of the farmhousey Ardennes yeast, which gets more spicy the warmer you ferment, but feel free to substitute your favorite fruity hops.

Emphasize the tartness of green tomatoes by brewing this lighter saison-style beer with a relatively dry finish.

Jester Goldman offers tips on choosing honey and the base beer for a saison braggot, then shares the recipe for “Saison of the Braggot.” It needs a warm fermentation temperature, so what better time than midsummer to brew one up?

Here we’ve used Amarillo, Chinook, and Nugget to create an American saison with a bright pineapple and blackberry flavor and a distinct resiny Nugget aroma.

Burial Beer’s goal for Thresher was to prove that a coffee beer can be light and nuanced.

Chris Betts of Transient Artisan Ales provided this recipe for their versatile saison.

Blackberry Farm Brewery Head Brewer Daniel Heisler’s saison recipe pays homage to the traditional beers of the Wallonia region of Belgium.

Roasted carrots added to the fermentor impart sweet and caramelly character to this saison while the ginger adds a hint of spice.

Brew this spicy sessionable saison (say that fast 3 times!).

Brew this saison that is modeled on Saison Dupont, the definitive example of this beer style.

Here’s a conventionally made saison with the OG kicked up to 1.080 and a good dose of Chinese white pepper and bitter orange peel.

Have some fun with your saison by forgetting hops selection, timing, and IBUs and use a single addition of leftover hops.

Use Northern Brewer hops for a saison with a hops character that is like strolling through the Black Forest.

The mash schedule for this beer is a bit baroque, but it works great for a farmhouse ale in the style of Boulevard Tank 7.

Brew this yourself and discover why Funkwerks Brewery's Tropic King has become a local legend.

In this recipe, musician and brewer Kyle Hollingsworth is going for a Farmhouse-style á la Boulevard Tank 7.

A dry, crisp and spicy Belgian saison. Distinct peppery aroma and flavor.