Summer Time - Page 2

kyleobie · 03-22-2010, 02:24 AM

If you want to emulate beer from the link, you might try zesting a lemon and adding 1 oz of the lemon zest during the last 5 minutes of the boil. It's a Wit, and you'll want to include other spices, too.

I haven't had the Leinenkugel's beer you mentioned earlier, though.

BigErn · 03-22-2010, 02:29 AM

Well the Ithica beer is one of my favorites. But the Leinenkugel is to keep SWMBO happy.

BigErn · 03-22-2010, 05:21 AM

Ok I would like to add some corriander to this also... does anyone have any experience with that. How much should I add and when. Should it be at the 15 minute mark with the orange and lemon zest

kyleobie · 03-22-2010, 01:08 PM

Typically you would add .5 to 1 oz of coriander with the citrus peel during the last 5 minutes of the boil.

You should use whole seeds and lightly crush them. You could put them in a plastic bag and roll over them with a soup can. I use a coffee grinder, but maybe just for a second.
You don't want powder.

By the way, I've had nice success with Wyeast 3944 for Wit yeast. I recommend it.

gdr1110 · 05-26-2010, 12:29 PM

Get a dram of lemonade flavor from a cake shop (used for candy and frosting flavoring) and add it in with the priming sugar just before bottling. A friend and I split a batch this way, it turned out awesome, we both wished we had the entire batch.

chip82 · 05-26-2010, 01:27 PM

BigErn, Is there any word as to how your beer is coming along? What method did you decide to go with? I sure do like my summer shandy and I would love to hear how this goes.

Justibone · 05-26-2010, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by BigErn

I may have to try that... But doesnt both of those contain sugar? Perhaps If I use those as my Priming sugar? Or would that be a horrible idea not knowing the exact sugar content in them.

Kool-aid packets do not contain (signficant) sugar. The *tubs* of Kool-aid do.

BigErn · 05-27-2010, 06:00 AM

Well its been 3 weeks in the bottle. This is deffinately not Summer Shandy but it is a good summertime beer.

Couple notes:

This is a basic wheat beer. I went a little heavy on the Wheat (added some extract out of fear when I shouldnt have).

I racked to secondary onto 3 cut up frozen lemons. I cut them up very small and it helped out tremendously getting them out of the carboy. This gave the beer a good lemon smell and soured it (not infected) but didnt leave a lemon taste to speak of... Maybe a lemon and a half next time two at most.

The change to a higher alpha hops was a good plus. Maybe even more next time. Citra hops from NB are 11.1% which I may try.

And for the lemonade... Crystal lite worked wonderful... It would have been even better had I not gone heavy on the Wheat extract.

SO plans for next time: Use less Wheat and make it an even lighter beer, Use coriander and lemon zest only... orange is usless here, Higher alpha Hops to help balance sourness a little, secondary on less lemons(could even phase this out all together), Crystal light lemonade to achieve desired lemonade flavoring.