I've been waiting since last April for somewhere to get in some more blood oranges and guess what? I went to Bel-Air last night and they had a whole table of them. I grabbed about a dozen and I'll be making this brew this weekend. I'm pretty excited, I've been waiting a long time to be able to make this.
I'm thinking of also doing this with only DME with no LME. Has anyone who has done this gotten a lighter brew they can post a picture of?
I enhance the original extract recipe a bit. I did a partial mash with one pound of Weyermann Dark Wheat and one pound of Briess Carapills, and added a pound of brown sugar to the boil. I know it gave it a darker color (see the pic I posted a couple of pages ago), enhanced the flavor profile, and boosted the OG to 1.066. I had a FG of 1.012, making a nice, warming 7.2% ABV hefe.
TheWeeb, I'm thinking of brewing partial as well and new to brewing. Would you mind providing partial recipe? Thanks so much in advance.
Just brewed up my batch today using all DME with 2/3 of the DME added in 20 minutes before the end of the boil. Came out to 1.048 OG. I threw the zest from all 4 blood oranges in. Depending on how it turns out after fermentation I may chop up and zest one more orange and throw it in and secondary the batch. It already smells great. I already can't wait to drink this one.
What do you guys think about adding organic Blood Orange fruit juice to the secondary? I brewed an experimental beer with Black rice (Forbidden Rice), Victory malt, American 6 row Pale, and some light Belgian candy to obtain a purple colored beer. I'm using Hefeweizen IV Ale yeast with idea of getting a spicy character. It's in the primary now and looks good. The purple color is very prominent, like a cloudy cabernet with a pink krausen. Then I see this thread and the idea of blood fruit in my Purple Reign sounds great. I have two quarts of blood orange juice. What do you guys think?
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