I’m planning on making a moderate gravity (~1.055 likely) saison within the next two weeks and I’m looking for opinions on what yeast to use. This is going to be a pretty simple saison – just Belgian Pilsner, Wheat Malt and a touch of Vienna. I will be making a 6 gallon batch split into two 3 gallon batches with each batch receiving a different yeast. The first yeast will be WL565 as I have experience with that one. So the considerations for the second yeast are:
(1) It will undergo the same fermentation temp profile as the 565 (I follow Drew’s saison primer pretty closely for this and it works out well for me).
(2) It should play well with 565 as I blend a gallon of each finished beer together to get three beers out of two batches (565, 565+other, other).
(3) It’d be nice if it offered a significantly different flavor than 565.
(4) A bit down on the list but I plan on repitching both of these into a higher gravity saison immediately after I’m done with this one and doing the same blending procedure.
Thoughts, opinions, experience?