I have the house to myself on sat so have decided to try my first extract brew which will be a blue moon clone. It will be a 1 gallon brew as my stock pot is 10 ltrs only. My recipe is as follows
200g carapils
500 dwe
Hallertau hops
Crushed coriander seed
Grated orange zest
Belgian wit yeast
Do ye reckon I will get the brew from the above
Put this on today.
45 min boil
150g Carapils
500g wheat spray
100g Dem Sugar
8g Hallertau @ 30mins
1/5 oz corainder lead @ 10 mins
1/4 oz fresh orange peel @ 10 mins
6g Hallertau at Flame out
Looked and smelled amazing, heres hoping it tastes good. If it works out I will be making a full batch without delay
hey graham - your around a week in - how is it fairing out ?
- did you use the begian yeast in the end ( why pick that one ?)
you gonna secondary it on orange peels or anything ???
had a pint of this in town yesterday - queit nice - but dear - 5.40 !!
Tasted nice going into the carboy, its clearing nicely atm. Id reckon it has maybe 3/4 days of fermenting left at this stage.
I went with the belgian yeast as it is essentially a wit beer. There won't be a secondary fermentation and I would imagine the more peel would give too much of an orange tate to it.
Bottled this today, meant to take a pic in the demi but forgot. Tasted nice, missus was happy which was the main aim. orange is the dominant flavour
Tasted this tonight after a week in the bottle, normally wouldnt sample so early but will be placing an order with the HBC and needed to know whether to order ingredients for a full batch, yes I will do. Tastes lovely, the orange has lessened a bit in the bottle. Not quite as creamy in the mouthfeel as Blue Moon but still pretty damn good.
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This was brewed initially as blue moon is my missus favourite beer. Last nite we decided to do a side by side tasting.
Much to my absolute delight my beer was declared better by swmbo. While darker in colour my wit has a much nicer body and mouthfeel in comparison to the thinness of the retail brew.
There's no harm in drinking a Wit young and fresh, arguably that's the best time, which is no doubt why yours is tasting better than blue moon :)
+1 or more
Some Blue Moons are just as intended others taste like drinking the water from yer hot water bottle - Red Rubber!!
I think its to do with a time / temperature curve thingy!