caver95

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sillyburt

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anyone use fermentis safale s-04 on this?

I brought the recipe to the LHBS and I'm doing a hybrid of this (2-row, white wheat and oats). they gave me s-04 for a dry yeast to use on this.

with the mention of t-58, s-05 and even s-33 in the past in the posts I'm wondering what would be a good dry yeast for this?

GNBrews

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Are you guys getting enough orange taste with 0.75oz of dried bitter peel? I made the original recipe a few weeks ago, and after carbonating it doesn't have the same depth as the real deal.

Stuntman

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I love hefe's. Blue Moon is a great, light, wheaty after taste (and I mean after) that can be desired, IMO. I am going to get a good clone and use it for all fruit beer standard. That is until I get more edjamacated.

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Panagiotis

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I' ve never had a "Blue Moon" but after reading all these positive comments i know i HAVE to give it a shot! I am changing my brewing schedule so that i will be able to brew it in a month or so (will be hotter over here till then).
What i wanted to ask is this.... how about using some Bergamot orange instead of "plain" orange? (got my hands on some nice ones today. They are bitter but extremely aromatic). Would it be too overwhelming ? I think i am going to split the batch in two and brew it both ways. Has any of you ever tried using this particular type of orange?
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RushN24

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This looks just like the sample witbier recipe from Beersmith. With all the great reviews I'm definitely going to try this next. Thanks for posting it.

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RandalG

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Brewed this on Sunday. Went ok until I got my first stuck sparge which was kind of a pita.Not enough rice hulls I guess. I added a lb. of flaked oats and .25 oz. of sweet orange to the original recipe so we'll see how that goes. It sure smells good bubbling away in the closet right now. I also noticed I ended up with the most trub I've had from any beer so far.I'm thinking probably from all the flaked wheat and oats.

gicts

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I am planning on doing this brew and was looking at my bottle of orange peel. The ingredients list a preservative.

Obviously it has worked for others, and hasn't stopped the fermentation. My question is how? Does the boil remove the preservative, or is there just that little of an amount that it doesn't effect the yeast?

EDIT....
Ok, I found orange peel at the LHB and quit looking at just what was in my kitchen cabinet.

I went ahead and brewed this yesterday. I replaced 3lbs of the flaked wheat with:
2 lb white wheat and 1 lb of torrified wheat (cleaning out the closet).

On a different note,
Could anyone ID the film that was leftover in my tun last night? It was very thin but was on top of the grains and seemed to get poorer efficiency. It was only my second time using the cooler and was somewhat surprised. (It was actually from a Sam Adams clone ftw) It didn't happen to this brew. Good? Bad?

xt-lee

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That film is from the flaked wheat. I noticed it when I started making recipes with flaked wheat. When you use strictly wheat malt, the film is absent. The protein rest in my later recipes seemed to help with my efficiency. Flaked wheat is there mainly for head retention.

passedpawn

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I made this beer with the following exceptions, and it was excellent. 1 week in the bottle and it is a super summer quencher.

1. I used Malted Wheat instead of flaked. To ensure a nice haze, I added 1 tsp flour to boil.
2. Used Saaz hops
3. Zested 1 orange (from neighbors tree, no idea what this weighed)
4. Belgian Strong Ale Yeast (Wyeast #1388)
5. 2 week primary only.

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