French saison yeast in a smoked porter recipe

[buntung483]

Hi.
I got the recipe from a brewery for 8 wired big smoke.
For 23 litres og 1.064

3kg weyerman beech smoked malt
2kg pale malt
.5kg Munich
.25kg caramalt
.25kg carafa special
.25kg brown malt
.15kg black malt

90 min. 20 g pacific jade
10 min 25g willamette
0 min 25g willamette

Ferment wyeast american ale II

Only thing is I want to use French saison 3711 because I like the flavour and mouthfeel

My lhbs didn't have carafa special only carafa II and no pacific jade hops. The said maybe use citra but I'm not sure about it. Also if there is any suggestions that could make this recipe work better with the yeast would be great

Thanks
Josh

 

[daksin]

Pac jade is a unique hop, I'd just go with something tropical fruity, Galaxy, mosaic, or citra would be fine, but you might want to stick with something NZ, like Motueka. You can definitely use the saison yeast but be aware it will dry it out more (less mouthfeel, more alcohol) and make a totally different beer. Personally, a hoppy smoked belgian stout seems like a lot going on, I'd much rather use a neutral ale yeast.

 

[bob3000]

did you make this? i'm thinking of something similar.