All-Grain - Lemon-Lime Hefe Weizen - Page 10

**SD-SLIM** · 01-31-2012, 04:08 AM

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Originally Posted by theveganbrewer

I think mine has been in 2 weeks post limeade and I was doing a sample on another beer and had everything sanitized so I grabbed a reading off the LL hefe. I was at 1.016. I put this in the fermenter at 1.064 (planned on that). Hope to get this to 7%.

Sample tasted good. I had good lime flavor retention with a a bit of limey bitterness. Looked like a nice cloudy hefeweizen.

Your gonna love it...but give it its three weeks to be perfect!

**OCBrewin** · 02-01-2012, 07:20 PM

Got this one bubbling away right now - so excited!

I did a bit of a variation of the recipe due to circumstances, but I hope it will turn out great, I have high hopes. Here's how it went down....

So SWMBO loves wits (allagash, hoegaarden, etc...) and so do I. I've been neglecting here tastes as of late so I decided that a wit was in the works - then I saw this and had an idea. 10Gal, split into 5 gal of classic wit and 5 gal of this lemon lime american wheat.

So I brewed 10 gal with this recipe (mostly what I had on hand...):

5# American 6-row
5# Belgian 2-row
1# Belgian Pale Wheat Malt
9# Flaked Wheat
1# Flaked Barley
4oz Acid Malt

75 min Mash at 153F

1.5oz of whole leaf Fuggles to 15IBU - 60 min boil

1tsp of yeast nutrient

At 15 min to end of boil, pull off 1 liter or so into two saucepans (2 liters total). Add to one saucepan .75oz bitter orange and .5oz cracked corriander seed. Add to second sauce pan zest from 3 small limes, .25oz cracked corriander seed. Boil both for 15 min along side the rest of the wort.

Chill all three vessels, split 8.5gal of post boil wort to 2 fermenters and add one saucepan contents to each fermenter. Oxygenate and add to the wit fermenter 3068 - Weihenstephan yeast and to the lime wheat added US-05.

OG: 1.060

That was 3 days ago. Last night I took half of the Simply Limeade, added 0.25oz of Sorachi Ace and boiled for 5-10min, added the rest of the limeade, chilled and dumped into the US-05 batch. By this morning the carboy was going f****** nuts!

I would say that is smells great, but its a mix of limey goodness mixed with sulfur sh*t from the 3068 yeast...

Anyways, sorry about the long post - I'm super excited to try both of these side by side and see the differences. I know that it wasn't exactly to the original recipe, but the intent was the same.

Cheers!

**SD-SLIM** · 02-02-2012, 02:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OCBrewin

Got this one bubbling away right now - so excited!

I did a bit of a variation of the recipe due to circumstances, but I hope it will turn out great, I have high hopes. Here's how it went down....

So SWMBO loves wits (allagash, hoegaarden, etc...) and so do I. I've been neglecting here tastes as of late so I decided that a wit was in the works - then I saw this and had an idea. 10Gal, split into 5 gal of classic wit and 5 gal of this lemon lime american wheat.

So I brewed 10 gal with this recipe (mostly what I had on hand...):

5# American 6-row
5# Belgian 2-row
1# Belgian Pale Wheat Malt
9# Flaked Wheat
1# Flaked Barley
4oz Acid Malt

75 min Mash at 153F

1.5oz of whole leaf Fuggles to 15IBU - 60 min boil

1tsp of yeast nutrient

At 15 min to end of boil, pull off 1 liter or so into two saucepans (2 liters total). Add to one saucepan .75oz bitter orange and .5oz cracked corriander seed. Add to second sauce pan zest from 3 small limes, .25oz cracked corriander seed. Boil both for 15 min along side the rest of the wort.

Chill all three vessels, split 8.5gal of post boil wort to 2 fermenters and add one saucepan contents to each fermenter. Oxygenate and add to the wit fermenter 3068 - Weihenstephan yeast and to the lime wheat added US-05.

OG: 1.060

That was 3 days ago. Last night I took half of the Simply Limeade, added 0.25oz of Sorachi Ace and boiled for 5-10min, added the rest of the limeade, chilled and dumped into the US-05 batch. By this morning the carboy was going f****** nuts!

I would say that is smells great, but its a mix of limey goodness mixed with sulfur sh*t from the 3068 yeast...

Anyways, sorry about the long post - I'm super excited to try both of these side by side and see the differences. I know that it wasn't exactly to the original recipe, but the intent was the same.

Cheers!

If every beer recipe was the same, we all might like Budweiser...but thankfully it's not, so brew away and keep us posted as to how your experiment went! Don't forget to post pictures, some of us love beer porn!

mitchcl640 · 02-02-2012, 04:33 AM

I have just started brewing. In fact I'm drinking my first batch now. Your recipe sound effn amazing. Being new to all of this: What do you mean by vigorous fermentation? Is that just the first few days then add the **** or no. Is this a primary or secondary fermentation? Like I said I'm new to all this terms.

**SD-SLIM** · 02-02-2012, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by mitchcl640

I have just started brewing. In fact I'm drinking my first batch now. Your recipe sound effn amazing. Being new to all of this: What do you mean by vigorous fermentation? Is that just the first few days then add the **** or no. Is this a primary or secondary fermentation? Like I said I'm new to all this terms.

Welcome to brewing...vigorous fermentation happens from 1 to 3 days and it's where the yeast are working hard to convert the sugars to beer, you can some times see the wort moving around like crazy or you can see bubbles coming up in to your airlock at a rapid rate...the reason why you want to wait for this to calm down, is because you will be introducing more sugar, if you didn't wait the yeast would go crazy and start exploding wort through your airlock. I personally never use a secondary, the only reason why I would is if I am aging a beer....so this beer only gets primary fermentation.

**OCBrewin** · 02-02-2012, 03:38 PM

Update on the split batch:

Both are basically winding down, with the lemon-lime still a bit more active because of the sugar addition from the limeade. I have been keeping them in a full bathtub at between 64-66 degrees. Tonight I will move them out and ramp up the temp a few degrees to rouse the yeast a bit. I will also take some gravity readings and beer porn pics.

How many gravity points do you estimate that the Simply Limeade added? I had a post boil OG of 1.060 on both batches, so I'm wondering what the Lemon-Lime Wheat was actually - thinking something like 1.068-70???

Thanks, Cheers!

**Skagdog** · 02-10-2012, 06:00 PM

Bottled the L-L-H today. The sample was delicious, lot's of lime but not overwhelming. I'm really looking forward to crackin' one open after they've conditioned.

I'm gonna try an bottle the Grapefruit version tonight after work.

Based on the sample I will certainly brew this again....depending on the final product, this may be pipeline status...

**SD-SLIM** · 02-10-2012, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Skagdog

Bottled the L-L-H today. The sample was delicious, lot's of lime but not overwhelming. I'm really looking forward to crackin' one open after they've conditioned.

I'm gonna try an bottle the Grapefruit version tonight after work.

Based on the sample I will certainly brew this again....depending on the final product, this may be pipeline status...

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it, let me know when you crack one open after it's complete!

**Skagdog** · 02-11-2012, 03:12 AM

Got the grapefruit in bottles. GF didn't have the same star power as the LL but who cares? It was just a sample, a very green sample. Looking forward to this one as well.

Glad the boss-man only cracked the whip four hours today. LLH bottled this morning, GFH bottled this evening. This bottling day is also the last step (before consumption) of my first double brew day. Man-o-man..

Happy Brewing!

johnheather125 · 02-11-2012, 03:02 PM

I to brewed a simalar recipe to this. Jut used yours and tweaked a slight bit.
6# white wheat malt
5# pilsner
1# veianna
no motueka hops at lhbs so i just went with sorachi ace at 60 20 and 7 min.
1oz. of lime zest and 1oz. of lemon zest at 5 min.
I had to add a blow off this morning but this brew smells absolutly amazing thanks for the great recipe (even though i made such major changes).