I brewed up 11 gallons on Saturday and it smells great! I did run into a little problem though. When I came home from the LHBS the bag broke open just as I was about to set it on the counter. Well one of the packs of orange got away from me. I forgot that I already had a pack of coriander from before that was on the counter so I mistakenly thought that I picked up an extra coriander by mistake at the store thinking it was orange. So I put the orange that I had in and also 1/2 oz of bitter orange that I had on hand. Of course when I was cleaning up later I found the missing orange pack!
So I decided on Sunday morning to boil up 2 cups of wort with DME and put the last pack of orange in that and boiled for 15 min then chilled strained and dumped into the fermenter. Since it’s a 11 gallon batch hopefully the bitter orange won’t show much
I used 2 oz of zest (had to zest like 9 oranges to get it). I think that is what the recipe called for. I dropped it in with 10 mins left in the boil along with the Corriander
I did a 2.5 gallon batch of this, and zested two huge oranges to get the zest, but i still dont think it was enough to get the 1oz needed for the scaled down recipe.
Upon tasting after a little after a week in the primary, there is tons of nice grapefruit hints from the cascade, but no orange present
I'd imagine they might come through in time, so hopefully that is the case.
All of this lack of Orange makes me wonder. When I found my missing pack of orange I boiled it up in 2 cups or wort and the strained and dumped the wort into the fermenter. I then put the strained orange in a zip lock and threw it into the freezer. I wonder if it would give any additional flavor or aroma pitching the frozen/used orange into secondary. Guess I will have to take a gravity reading and sample it tonight.
I used the recommended amount of orange that the recipe calls for...I doubled everything since I brew 10 gallon batches.....I will add more next time...definitley one of my favorite beers I have made.
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