This recipe has been designed to be consistent with the 2021 BJCP Style guide 25B - Saison, but with a twist. It’s dark.

Dark Star is a recipe created for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery, at the special in-house request of Dan Hagenaar! You can expect all of the classic attributes of a saison – it’s dry, effervescent, firmly bittered and refreshing with fruity, spicy and peppery esters.

In order to create a dark saison with the classic drinkability that the style is typically known for, this recipe is carefully built on a base malt bill of Pilsner, Vienna and Wheat Malt, with just enough Caraffa Special II, Redback and Crystal Malt, to provide added colour and depth, without being either sweet or roasty. East Kent Goldings and Saaz hops add earthy, spicy, herbal and floral notes accentuated by the warmer fermentation with the saison yeast.

The nights are dark and starry, time for a Dark Star we think. Santé.

207 Aluminium Cans
This is a box of 207 silver cans with lids, packed in a cardboard box. The Cannular Canning Machine is set up to use these cans out-of-the-box. These have been packed in sanitary conditions however due to the nature of the product we would recommend that you sanitise before use. 

Large Opening
This can design has the "big gulp" opening design that makes the cans easier to drink out of.

This chuck is the chuck that is sold as a separate part so that the Cannular Bench Top Canning Machine can be used with Visy/CDLE ends.  No need to change over the rolls just switch over the chuck, make some fine adjustments to the rolls and table height and you can be seaming CDLE ends in no time at all. 

Fill any beverage into any bottle, can, jar or glass automatically with this internet connected, RAPT enabled, Cannular Can and Bottle Filler. More sanitary and easier to use than other competitors.

This Cannular Can and Bottle filler is ideally used for bottle, cans or even glasses.  Using two adjustable stainless steel tubes it will use one to purge oxygen out of the vessel and then use the second one to fill the vessel to a precise level based on an internal pressure sensor. 

Want to seam 330ml cans?  This is the part you need to lift the table of your Cannular Canning Machine by 50mm so you can do these smaller can sizes.

This add on table spacer has been designed to work with the manual Cannular Can Seamer. The Cannular machines have been designed to work with the 500ml cans right out of the box, however for smaller cans such as the 330ml cans this type of spacer is required to lift the can up a bit higher.

Note: the table spacer is not required for the Semi-Auto Cannular Canning Machine.

In order to get really low DO (dissolved oxygen) in your beer cans, it's important to fill the can right to the top to the point where it's slightly overflowing.  This inevitably means some drips on the side of the can will flick off sideways when you turn the machine on.

This splash guard prevents these annoying splashes making a mess in your brewery area.

Also fantastic for tight spaces or congested bars where growler filling is done right next to other staff and equipment that you do not want to get splashes on.

The guys at Oktober - self-coined 'Engineers and Beer Lovers' from Michigan, USA - have developed the perfect canning solution for the serious homebrewer looking to can their prized beer.

We're pleased to offer the SL1 Can Seamer, a professional-grade can seamer developed for the home user looking to get into canning their homebrew. It has the flexibility to use any standard aluminium beverage cans with regular size 202 lid tops (ends).

This high quality can seamer not only looks great, but works great, and is easy to use and durable.

Full Aperture Aluminium Disposable Beverage/Beer Cans Black Skin with Black Lids and Red Tab (300 units x 330ml).

300 Aluminium Cans
This is a box of 300 cans and lids packed in a cardboard box.  These have been packed in sanitary conditions however due to the nature of the product we would recommend that you sanitise before use.  

Large Opening
This can design has the full aperture opening design that makes the cans easier to drink out of so you can enjoy a "glass like" experience with a disposable container. 

The Cannular can seamer is a manual can seamer that is easy to use, reliable and beautifully simple and with this Semi-Auto Model it just got even easier. Now you don't even have to pull a lever to seam the can. The seaming process takes only 3 Seconds!