hoegaarden clone

alrighty...i'm trying a hoegaarden right now while enjoying some brie and crackers.

it's good, but i can tell it's definitely lost something with age. can't wait to try mine fresh

i got to find a name for this beer. Ho Garden is kinda meh. any help with a clever take on hoegaarden

i'm going to plug this into ProMash and start a new thread. anyone who would like to join me in this little adventure, i'll be posting a partial mash recipe as well.

FYI: this is my first attempt at a clone recipe of a beer that i've actually tasted. i know that this will be a good beer, but we'll have to see how close to a hoegaarden it actual is


EDIT: After plugging this into ProMash, my estimated bitterness has changed dramatically. as i am shooting for the low end of the style, i will only add 1 oz of hops at each addition.

whoops...with this small amount of grain, i either have to do a really thin mash or i can't use my keg mash tun with it's thermometer i suppose i could break the old cooler out.

any ideas?

EDIT...nevermind...with the rice hulls it works out perfectly.

how about 'pro-gaarden'?

rake-yard? go-haarden?

i went with WhoGarden

I took a FG on my witbier today after 11 days in the primary and it tasted WAY more like hoegaarden than my previous extract attempt. The recipe was entirely different, so the list of possible contributing factors is long, but in any case it's darn tasty.

what recipe did you use??

Northern Brewer but I'll go ahead and post it...

3.5 lbs weyerman pale wheat
3.5 lbs Dingemans pilsner
1 lb flaked oats

2 oz strisselspalt 2.6% AA for 60 min
.5oz bitter orange peel 10 min
1 oz coriander seed 10 min

wyeast 3944 belgian witbier. Yeast was shipped very hot and I didn't make a starter. Probably would be a little better without that.

OG 1.045
FG 1.011
4.4% ABV

3.2 SRM
20 IBU

well, we'll see what mine's like. i think i'm gonna rack this weekend. my color was definitely off...i still need to post notes, i've been busy in other threads

Here's a recipe for a copy of hoegaarden from papazians book. 5lb extra light dme + 2lbs light clover honey + 1 oz hallertauer for 60/ .5oz hallertauer and .75oz crushed corriander at 45min/ .75 oz of coriander/bitter orange peel at 55min/ final 2 min add .5 oz hallertauer.

OG: 1.056-1.060
FG: 1.008-1.010
18 IBU/ Color 4 SRM
ill be making this saturday if the ingredients show up. What do you think? 1.5oz corriander too much?

nice post..

www.highgravity.com

That is my LHBS and they have a house kit named lady in white.......i brewed it with the recommended yeat and wow.......it was spot on with hoegardden.

Check it out.

This is great information, thanks all !!!

tcory77 said:

www.highgravity.com

That is my LHBS and they have a house kit named lady in white.......i brewed it with the recommended yeat and wow.......it was spot on with hoegardden.

Check it out.

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Found it...

http://www.highgravitybrew.com/productcart/pc/Lady-in-White-Wit-p3427.htm

So how about unmalted farrow instead of unmalted wheat? I have some on hand, it's light in color, and it could be an interesting experiment.

I could just make a cereal of it then add it to the mash. I always make a cereal of oatmeal before mashing it, so this would be not much different.

zoebisch01 said:

On a side note, they say you have to drink a glass of Hoegaarden in 3 sips .

Unconverted starch is key to a Wit and is what causes the 'white' affect. It also leads to the beer being very poor at keeping, so it is best drunk fresh. I sour mine as well post mash/pre-boil.

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This is good information

I was scrubbing the Hoegaarden clone threads because I have been trying to figure out if the recipe I used had any grains with enzymes... I'm a little slow and know only that barley, 2 row, and 6 row have enzymes. I stumbled upon this again having not retained this information during my first read several weeks ago. So I feel great knowing that this is why the unmalted wheat is such an important ingredient.


Here was my recipe, I also mashed 1.5 lbs of rolled oats for fun.

The result is quite good. Not quite Hoegaarden though. The wit yeast flavor in my clone is much more pronounced. The clone needs more foamy head too. All in all, I would make this again. The color is spot on!!






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