MILLS BREWING Saison Hallertau - 750ml
Product Details
Saison Hallertau is a bitter, amber saison with a good balance of malt, yeast and hop flavour.
This iteration was made from a blend of two barrels from two worts, both brewed in November 2022. We used single infusion mashes to produce fermentatble worts, resulting in dry finished beers. The grists contained well toasted Munich malts to give a rich malty flavour, without too much sweetness. A sizeable addition of bitter high alpha-acid Columbus hops was made at the start of the boil, followed by a blend of delicately aromatic Hallertau-grown noble hop varieties towards the end of the boil.
The spontaneous fermentations took place in old white Burgundy barrels made from French oak. The initial winter fermentation and heavy hopping favours the wild yeast over the lactic acid bacteria, while the relatively short 18 months in barrel limits the opportunity for acetic acid production. Together this leads to a more restained acidity in the final beer.
The barrels were selected for their clean aromatics, snappy dry finishes, and crystal clear malty flavours. The blend was dry-hopped with whole leaf Brewers Gold from the Hallertau region of Bavaria. A hop that smells like orange-flavoured summer.
Finally, as with all our releases, the beer was naturally conditioned in-bottle to produce fine carbonation.
BREWERY INFO
MILLS BREWING
Mills Brewing make beer with minimal modern intervention, replying on local wild yeast cultures and the influence of nature to ferment.
