Saison yeast results

As I posted 3 weeks ago in the What’s Brewing thread, I brewed 10 gallons of 1.065 OG saison wort, and split it into two fermenter. One received Wyeast 3724 Belgian Saison, the other Wyeast 3726 Farmhouse. As I noted in the earlier post, the starters behaved quite different - 3724 dropped quite bright, while 3726 remained very cloudy.

This remained true in the 5 gallon batches 3 weeks later. I fermented in Big Mouth Bubblers, which are clear. I’m pretty sure they were both done after 2 weeks, but let them sit for another week to see if 3726 would drop. It did not.

I kegged them yesterday. Measured the FG - 3724, the clear one finished at 1.004. Then I measured 3726…1.002! Another notable difference between the two finished beers was 3726 had a lot of CO2 in suspension…I think it might have kept going and gone under 1.000!

Has others using these yeasts had similar experience? Both were fermented in a small room with the temperature set at 69°F.

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When it’s ready, give us a taste review.

I love doing these brew and taste test comparisons! I haven’t done this particular Saison experiment but last Spring I brewed a 10 gal Maibock recipe with splitting the fermentation and pitching different yeasts. One carboy got Lallamand Novalager and one got Lallamand Abbye Ale. Each fermented with different levels of robustness at 65F with the Novalager carboy going to 1.000 and the Ale going to 1.004 FG from OG of 1.068.
The taste of both were different and quite enjoyable, worth the experimentation to have kegged two tasty and well received beers by all who shared!

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