Wit

[Qs]

Planning a wit this week. Just wondering how much orange peel and coriander people usually use and when you add it to the beer?

[Parky]

For a 22L batch I've used 25g of dried curacao orange peel and 12.5g crushed coriander seed.

One approach is to add the orange peel and coriander towards the end of the boil, but a method I've found to give a bit of extra flavour is to add them after primary fermentation has completed -

1. Boil 500ml of water, take it off the heat, and add the peel and coriander.
2. Leave to sit for 30 mins with a lid on.
3. Strain the liquid through a muslin bag and add to the fermenter, stirring gently.

I leave it for another five days after that for the flavour to infuse (or use your usual dry hopping schedule), and find it gives a nice fresh flavour.