Orange Juice in wheat beer?

kingoslo · 02-12-2009, 03:31 PM

Hello my friends,

I wondered if somebody has experience using orange juice in beer? And in wheat beer?

Marius

**DeathBrewer** · 02-12-2009, 03:50 PM

I have never heard of anyone having a good experience fermenting orange juice. The first thing that always pops into my mind is pruno.

Berries are a more popular choice when flavoring wheats.

Boerderij_Kabouter · 02-12-2009, 03:55 PM

Do you mean pre- or post fermentation?

It is actually an intriguing idea as a weird take on a shandy or radler.... I will experiment.

EDIT: I meant after fermentation. You do not want to combine yeast and OG...

**Edcculus** · 02-12-2009, 04:55 PM

I flavored a cider with orange extract with good results. I've heard fermented orange juice smells and tastes like barf.

kingoslo · 02-12-2009, 05:00 PM

I am interested in both before and after fermation.

I like the taste of orange, and wanted my wheat beer to have some orange flavour...

leapdog · 02-12-2009, 05:39 PM

if you want your beer to have orange flavor, why not just use orange peel?

blacklab · 02-12-2009, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leapdog

if you want your beer to have orange flavor, why not just use orange peel?

That was going to be my suggestion. Throw a couple of oz in with 10 mins left in the boil.

Cugel · 02-12-2009, 05:45 PM

Strangely enough I have added orange juice in the secondary; a 1/2 gallon to be precise. Did this in a "Beer Captured" recipe for Fantom. Do a search on HBT for a Fantom thread where I posted the recipe. The base was a beer containing some small % of wheat malt, 1 lb or so.

It worked out quite well a good beer, but without ever having Fantom I have no idea how close it came to the original. Remember to add pectic enzyme so that the beer will clear.