With a strainer bag of bitter orange peel tied to a stick and flung over his shoulder, the brewer of this recipe drifts casually toward the boiling kettle to infuse citrusy flavors in his stick-and-bindle to perfectly compliment the phenolic "bite" and ester profile of French Saison yeast.

Ingredients

6.0 lbs - CBW® Pilsen Light DME - 60 min boil
0.75 lb - Cane Sugar - 60 min boil
1.25 oz - Saaz Hops (5.0% AAU) - 60 min boil
0.25 oz - Saaz Hops (5.0% AAU) - 10 min boil
0.5 oz - Bitter Orange Peel - 10 min boil in strainer bag
2 pack - WLP590 French Saison Ale Yeast - Fermenter

Directions

Dissolve extracts and sugars in warm water
Bring to boil
Add 1.25 oz Saaz Hops
Boil for 50 minutes
Add 0.25 oz Saaz Hops and 0.5 oz Bitter Orange Peel
Boil for 10 minutes
Remove orange peel
Turn heat off and cool wort to 72ºF
Transfer to fermenter
Pitch one pack of WLP590 French Saison Ale Yeast