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New Nordic Yeast Blend Saison Tasting

This week its the New Nordic Yeast Blend Saison Tasting. I decided to craft a Saison inspired grain bill to give the New Nordic Yeast Blend from WhiteLabs a try. This week we finally dive into a tasting of that beer. Check it out!

This beer started with me being curious about the WhiteLabs Vault program. The way the vault works is that WhiteLabs has decided to share some of the special strains or blends that they don’t readily make available to home brewers. In order to make it viable for them you have to pre-order the strain you want (and pay for it). Once enough orders come in to reach a threshold (250 orders)… the yeast goes into production and the mail it direct to you.

The description of this yeast blend is complex. Having characteristics of both Saison and of German Hefe strains I thought a Saison grist would be fun as I was looking for a reason to start making a couple Saisons for the summer months. New Nordic Yeast Blend does not disappoint on complexity.

The beer is very dry, fruity, mildly funky and dynamic. We got hints of graham cracker, banana, apple and I even detected a root beer aroma at one point. None of these dominate or overwhelm you. Which is what actually leads to the complexity. The more you sample and sniff it, the more you palate gets confused and you explore newer and newer flavors and aromas.

Brewing with this yeast blend was so much fun. I still have another tube and I am note sure if I’ll go the cider route or a different Saison route. (I am remotely interesting in co-pitching with Brett C. and seeing what type of tropical fruit madness I can conger up!!)

Because of how unique it was we want to open our second round of Brew Dudes Beer Swapping. The first 5 people to email us at dudes@brew-dudes.com will get a chance to receive a bottle of this from me. Its a great way to check out this yeast blend’s character if you didn’t get in on the vault when it opened with this one.

So let us know if you’re in. We look forward to hearing your experience with this beer.

Cheers!

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1 Comment

  1. Justin L

    This yeast sounds awesome! What were your fermentation temperatures?

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