Lime Beer - What to use? - Page 3

**Revvy** · 03-21-2010, 03:54 PM

Another thing that just occurred to me.

I don't know....but it seems like that might be a viable alternative. But of course it is probably full of all manner of chemicals.

chrisrush · 03-21-2010, 04:37 PM

True, chemicals and sugar. No priming sugar needed if that is added.

**Bobby_M** · 03-21-2010, 04:55 PM

I'd go for the fresh zest either in the boil or extracted via a month long grain alcohol soak. The extract can be added at bottling to really preserve the aroma which would be boiled off.

**LandofOZ** · 03-21-2010, 06:23 PM

I use the "Rose's" sweetened lime juice but looking at the label now is corn syrup and concentrated lime juice, typically for 5 galons 1/4 cup sweetened lime juice and 1/8 cup concentrated lime juice before bottleing

Twofox · 03-30-2010, 03:06 AM

Been reading thru this and caught and idea. Looking to do a refreshing crisp clean lime flavored beer. How about something like this:

Extract 5gal batch.

6-7# LightDME
(not sure on specialties yet)
1oz Willamette 5% (60 min)
1oz Ahatnum (not sure what the LHBS has for AA) (15 mins
Nottingham dry yeast? (something farily dry, but not too much)

Here's the cool part. I HAVE A KEY LIME TREE!!

Already have some juiced and in frozen bags of 1cup each. Last years were pretty sour heh.

So add to taste in bottling bucket.

Thoughts?

Twofox · 04-24-2010, 01:17 AM

Working up a lime beer recipe since I have a keylime tree here.

What do you all think about this?

2.5 gal batch
1.5# Pale 2row
1.5# wheat malt
.25# Crystal 10L
.25# Flaked corn
.5oz Cascade hops @ 60 mins 7.5%
.5oz Amarillo @ 15 mins 7.5%
.5oz Amarillo @ flameout 7.5%
8oz Keylime juice (juiced last year and frozen) @ 15 mins
Zest of 2 key limes @ 15 mins

Mash, etc.

alcibiades · 04-24-2010, 01:41 AM

FWIW, i hear sorachi ace hops has lime flavors...

andrewp · 05-10-2010, 12:30 AM

this is what i'm trying tonight. after mixing a splash of lime aid in my

2.5 gallon batch:

3 lbs Light DME
0.5 lbs Crystal 10
0.25 lbs Honey Malt

0.5 oz Cascade (7.5AA) @ 30 min
0.25 oz Cascade (7.5 AA) @ 10 min
0.25 oz Cascade (7.5 AA) @ 5 min
zest of two limes @ 5 min
zest of two limes @ flameout

1 package danstar nottingham dry yeast

zest of 4 limes into vodka until secondary.

we'll see. any feedback would be appreciated. the pale ale / lime aid mix that i've been drinking is the tits so i'm excited to try this. nothing like a little experimental brewing on a sunday evening

JBrady · 05-10-2010, 01:05 AM

I just did a citrus wheat beer. We used the zest from 9 regular walmart limes which was a little too much. I was worried about blowing off too much lime flavor while fermenting but it wasn't an issue at all. I think about half of that would have been just right. I added the zest with about 2 minutes left in the boil to hopefully kill any unwanted nasties. The beer tasted great but was definitely dominated by the lime zest. Here is the recipe I made:

1.055 OG
1.013 FG
5.5% ABV
23.3 IBU's

6.00 pounds white wheat malt
4.25 pounds pale malt
.75oz amarillo gold 60 minutes
.25oz amarillo gold 15 minutes
1oz bitter orange peel 5 minutes
1oz sweet orange peel 5 minutes
Zest from 9 Limes 2 minutes (would scale this back to no more than 5 limes next time)
wyeast1010 american wheat ale yeast

mashed at 153 for 60 minutes

MichaelsBrewing · 04-28-2011, 08:58 PM

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