Citrus Weizen - Page 9

bckyrdkid420 · 03-29-2010, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by bckyrdkid420

Brewed CucuzzaBrew's recipe on saturday (except replaced, the sterling with saaz and Wyeast for WL 320 Hefe)!
This beer smells awesome! Can't wait to try it!!! If it's as good as it smells, I'm brewing again soon!

Tried my first bottle yesterday... And all I can say is WOW! Even after only 2 weeks in the bottle, it was nice and carbed! This has to be the best beer I've brewed to date! Thanks to the OP and CucuzzaBrew for his version! I'll be brewing this again very soon I'm sure!

Jedimaster1 · 05-05-2010, 10:38 PM

Excited about this one. This is going to be my first solo brew after a three-year hiatus. Sounds like it should be awesome.

I am going with:
4lbs Bavarian Wheat Dry Malt Extract
1/2lbs Cara-Pills
1lbs Honey (Cali)
1 oz (1/2 at 45 min. and 1/2 at 15 min) Cascade Hops
3 Oranges (zest)
1/2 oz of Sweet Orange Peel
3 Lemon (zest)
WLP001 Cali Ale yeast

Should I give a second thought to the idea of a second fermentation or should I just leave it in the primary for two weeks? Just can't justify moving it to a second when it is a weissen beer. But was wondering what your guys' thoughts for a n00b.

Jedimaster1 · 05-13-2010, 11:51 PM

I made mistake in brewing my version of the beer, I made a boil of 2.5 gallons and did not compensate for the hop utilization in the small boil (i.e. not a 5 gallon boil). According to BeerSmith, it made my IBUs range at about 10.

So I ask all you guys, how much will this effect the end product? Just curious.

**FSR402** · 05-14-2010, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jedimaster1

I made mistake in brewing my version of the beer, I made a boil of 2.5 gallons and did not compensate for the hop utilization in the small boil (i.e. not a 5 gallon boil). According to BeerSmith, it made my IBUs range at about 10.

So I ask all you guys, how much will this effect the end product? Just curious.

Just going to be a little sweeter. Not a lot though and is still in the "range" for that beer style. No worries.

Jedimaster1 · 05-14-2010, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by FSR402

Just going to be a little sweeter. Not a lot though and is still in the "range" for that beer style. No worries.

Thanks. I guess I should relax and just have a homebrew

Thanks for steering me back.

MeanGreen · 06-09-2010, 03:00 AM

Trying to make an AG loosely based on this. Any feedback would be appreciated

I'd like the cascades to play with the orange and keep the ibu's low yet still maintain the wheat profile

Recipe: Citrus Weizen2
Brewer: CC
Asst Brewer:
Style: American Wheat or Rye Beer
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 7.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.051 SG
Estimated Color: 4.0 SRM
Estimated IBU: 17.7 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 44.33 %
4.50 lb Wheat Malt, Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 44.33 %
0.50 lb Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 4.93 %
0.50 lb Wheat, Flaked (1.6 SRM) Grain 4.93 %
0.15 lb Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 1.48 %
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (60 min) Hops 4.5 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (50 min) Hops 4.3 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (40 min) Hops 3.9 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (30 min) Hops 3.4 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (10 min) Hops 1.6 IBU
4.00 items Orange Zest (Boil 12.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) Yeast-Ale

**FSR402** · 06-10-2010, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by MeanGreen

Trying to make an AG loosely based on this. Any feedback would be appreciated

I'd like the cascades to play with the orange and keep the ibu's low yet still maintain the wheat profile

Recipe: Citrus Weizen2
Brewer: CC
Asst Brewer:
Style: American Wheat or Rye Beer
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 7.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.051 SG
Estimated Color: 4.0 SRM
Estimated IBU: 17.7 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 44.33 %
4.50 lb Wheat Malt, Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 44.33 %
0.50 lb Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 4.93 %
0.50 lb Wheat, Flaked (1.6 SRM) Grain 4.93 %
0.15 lb Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 1.48 %
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (60 min) Hops 4.5 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (50 min) Hops 4.3 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (40 min) Hops 3.9 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (30 min) Hops 3.4 IBU
0.25 oz Cascade [5.40 %] (10 min) Hops 1.6 IBU
4.00 items Orange Zest (Boil 12.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) Yeast-Ale

My thoughts are that you're way over doing it.
I would go with
70% German Wheat
30% German Pils
mash for 90-120 minutes at 153
play with the hops to get it down to around 13ibus and go with one at 60 minutes and one at 10 minutes.
Why the complexity of all the different grains and hop addition for a simple light easy drinking beer?

MeanGreen · 06-10-2010, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by FSR402

My thoughts are that you're way over doing it.
I would go with
70% German Wheat
30% German Pils
mash for 90-120 minutes at 153
play with the hops to get it down to around 13ibus and go with one at 60 minutes and one at 10 minutes.
Why the complexity of all the different grains and hop addition for a simple light easy drinking beer?

Well that was kind of the point, to add a bit of complexity and with the grains and hops. Yet still maintain that light wheat aspect to the beer.

Sure I can just bang out a generic wheat beer a nice 60/40 split and some noble hops and call it a day.

Your recipe intrigued me with the orange/lemon. Thought like some others posted that adding the cascades would play well with those notes.

No one put and AG up yet and I researched the thread to add some items like flaked oats etc to get some body behind it. I could scale the hops up in 0z and eliminate the 40 and 50min addition for ease of brewing, but that is neither really here nor there.

I'm not really looking for a critique of the ease of my brewday and or grain bill more if you think the mash temps along with the ingredients will produce a good beer

**FSR402** · 06-10-2010, 07:12 PM

Sorry was not trying to be snobbish or anything. I just think that we as homebrewers tend to over do things. It's like we always have to make it bigger and better. I went thru that my first year or two of brewing. I have since out grown it..

I actually do have this beer as an all grain right now. I brewed 37 gallons of it.
70% wheat, 30% Pils, 5 pounds of rice hulls. Mashed at 153 for 2 hours.
Used NZ hallertau for the hops. some at 60 and some at 10. Added 1 oz of sweet orange, bitter orange and lemon. Used WLP300 yeast.

It's in bottles (yes all 360 of them) right now. Tried the 2nd one last night and it's turning out great.

Brew it up and tell us how it is.

MeanGreen · 06-10-2010, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by FSR402

Sorry was not trying to be snobbish or anything. I just think that we as homebrewers tend to over do things. It's like we always have to make it bigger and better. I went thru that my first year or two of brewing. I have since out grown it..

I actually do have this beer as an all grain right now. I brewed 37 gallons of it.
70% wheat, 30% Pils, 5 pounds of rice hulls. Mashed at 153 for 2 hours.
Used NZ hallertau for the hops. some at 60 and some at 10. Added 1 oz of sweet orange, bitter orange and lemon. Used WLP300 yeast.

It's in bottles (yes all 360 of them) right now. Tried the 2nd one last night and it's turning out great.

Brew it up and tell us how it is.

Holy sh#t 37 gallons!

You'll be stocked for winter

Yeah we are definitely guilty of tricking it up for tricks sake, I wasn't trying to on this one. I made a simple wheat similar to yours with iamjohnsharps recipe from the forum but added meyer lemons

I'll brew this with some slight modifications and report bacl