Elusive – Lord Nelson

Elusive – Lord Nelson

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All grain recipe kit for brewing Elusive Brewing – Lord Nelson

A clean and refreshing Saison with notes of gooseberry from use of Nelson hop.

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Description

These kits include all grains, hops, and yeast needed to brew the recipe according to the instructions found in CAMRA’s Essential Home Brewing book.

Elusive Brewing – Lord Nelson

Lord Nelson is a collaboration between Berkshire-based Elusive and London-based Weird Beard. Collaboration brewing is a popular way for small breweries to work together. It allows the to share ideas, methods and routes to market and can be a great learning experience for the breweries involved. Lord Nelson has been brewed at both breweries and is an annual release, usually hitting taps around springtime. The recipe changes slightly each year and the recipe included here is the original one.

This recipe takes a classic saison base and marries it up with the wonderful gooseberry qualities of New Zealand’s Nelson Sauvin hop. The finished beer is typically dry and the combination of the hop profile and yeast esters bring a vinous fruity quality. A combination of Maris Otter and Pilsner malt provide the base but Vienna and Munich also feature heavily to help balance the dryness of the high attenuation. Bitterness is on the high side for the style but is countered by the malt base. Belle Saison yeast is a fast starter but prefers some warmth to finish off. Expect fermentation to go off quickly then slow, to the point it can appear to have stopped, after around 3-4 days. It is recommended to leave the beer for at least 10 days in primary fermentation to ensure a stable final gravity.

Every effort is made to match the brewery recipe precisely, but at times it maybe necessary to change some of the listed ingredients on the recipe to alternatives due to seasonality or availability, but in all cases we do our best replace with something that won’t impact on the overall taste and flavour of the beer.


Ingredients Included

Crisp Maris Otter
Crisp Vienna Malt
Weyermann® Munich Malt I
Weyermann® Premiere Pilsner Malt
Nelson Sauvin Pellets (100 grams)
Northern Brewer Pellets (100 grams)
Belle Saison 11g (1 packs)


Method

Beer Style (main): Belgian/French Ales
Beer Style (sub): Classic French & Belgian-Style Saison
Batch Size: 20L
Original Gravity: 1059
Final Gravity: 1006
ABV %: 7
IBU: 20

THE MASH
Temperature °C: 66
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C:
Out time (mins):

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Additions and timing:

Nelson Sauvin – 15 min – 15g
Nelson Sauvin – 5 min – 20g
Neslon Sauvin – 0 min – 65g

Secondary additions and timing:

Northern Brewer – 5 days – 100g

Yeast: Lallemand Belle Saison
Fermentation temperature/steps: Pitch at 19c and allow to free rise after 24 hours of fermentation

Comments:

These kits include all grains, hops, and yeast needed to brew the recipe according to the instructions found in CAMRA’s Essential Home Brewing book.

Elusive Brewing – Lord Nelson

Lord Nelson is a collaboration between Berkshire-based Elusive and London-based Weird Beard. Collaboration brewing is a popular way for small breweries to work together. It allows the to share ideas, methods and routes to market and can be a great learning experience for the breweries involved. Lord Nelson has been brewed at both breweries and is an annual release, usually hitting taps around springtime. The recipe changes slightly each year and the recipe included here is the original one.

This recipe takes a classic saison base and marries it up with the wonderful gooseberry qualities of New Zealand’s Nelson Sauvin hop. The finished beer is typically dry and the combination of the hop profile and yeast esters bring a vinous fruity quality. A combination of Maris Otter and Pilsner malt provide the base but Vienna and Munich also feature heavily to help balance the dryness of the high attenuation. Bitterness is on the high side for the style but is countered by the malt base. Belle Saison yeast is a fast starter but prefers some warmth to finish off. Expect fermentation to go off quickly then slow, to the point it can appear to have stopped, after around 3-4 days. It is recommended to leave the beer for at least 10 days in primary fermentation to ensure a stable final gravity.

Every effort is made to match the brewery recipe precisely, but at times it maybe necessary to change some of the listed ingredients on the recipe to alternatives due to seasonality or availability, but in all cases we do our best replace with something that won’t impact on the overall taste and flavour of the beer.

Additional information

Weight 5.813 kg
Country of Origin GB
HS Code 2106909853

5 reviews for Elusive – Lord Nelson

  1. Ian Downham

    Dead easy kit to do and the taste is well worth the effort. I’d never done a Saison before and it was a bit of a revelation. APA meets wheat beer is what I got taste wise but that’s just me. Andy parker (Elusive Brewing says in the CAMRA Essential Homebrewing book he’d like to try this with Motueka hops rather than Nelson Sauvin. I did and it’s just as nice but in a totally different way. Anyway buy this it won’t disappoint.

  2. Clobber (verified owner)

    Made a fantastic brew with this kit, I don’t think I had the fermentation temp right at the end so it finished at 1.010 instead of 1.006 which meant it was a little sweeter than intended but still an absolute blinder of a beer. I think it tastes a lot like leffe.

  3. Ralph Hughes (verified owner)

    Bought my second kit. Super easy to brew thanks to a free rise fermentation. Flavour improved significantly the longer it spent in the bottle. Mine turned out at 7.5% but finished at 1.006 so crisp and dry. Lovely Nelson Sauvin aroma. Good stuff!

  4. James Delchar (verified owner)

    This is an absolutely phenomenal brew, and really easy too. Started at 1.058 and was at 1.004 twelve days later – kegged before confirming fermentation was finished as I wanted to get the beer off the hops within 72 hours. It only gets better with age in terms of flavour and clarity and the 7% ABV is deviously disguised. Would absolutely 10/10 recommend and will be setting this as my current benchmark for future homebrews.

  5. Graham Jordan (verified owner)

    Just excellent. A really easy drinking (dangerously so) saison. Perfect summer pint!

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