Recent content by rickyhoel

I just put them in a plastic bag and hit them with a small hammer.:)

I brewed a smaller test batch of this a year ago. Fantastic. This will be my new go to beer in my cellar. I now have a 12 gallon batch aging. Thanks for the great recipe.:mug:

That is plenty of time in my experience:mug:

I bet your other batch will taste closer to the colorado brew and less like Hoegaarden. That belgian style yeast leaves quite a mark on the brew.

I don't think you will have a problem with the oats. But rememember, Blue Moon uses SWEET orange peel only Not bitter. Also, T-58 gives it a peppery, Hoegaarden type of taste. Blue Moon uses a neutral American style yeast to let the citrus and come through a little more. :mug:

Another important point is keeping your terms the same. Ground coriander and ground orange peel is a much different volume than crushing coriander seeds with a hammer in your kitchen and Valencia orange peel the way it comes in the McCormicks bottle at the grocery store.

Here is my latest recipe that came out fantastic. It is a lot more like Blue Moon than Hogaarden. One thing I will recommend after reading another string with advice from a former Coors employee is the use of a neutral american yeast like Wyeast 1056. He stated that it let the sweet orange peel...

BrewNinja, You are my hero. I found the link in related threads with info from Wayne1 who worked on the original recipe and now I can't wait to make it again with Wyeast 1056 and not having to mess with extra stuff like, grains of paradise, honey, cumin, saaz hops, etc!:mug:

I have been working on trying to tweak my wit recipe quite a bit to get closer to the "Blue Moon" flavor and less similar to a "Hoegaarden" traditional wit flavor. I tried the AHS Blue Moon clone and it is indeed closer to Hoegaarden. (Which I understand a lot of people prefer. Just not me.) One...

One more note from my veteran brewer friend. He said he would not even use a capper! He would just twist them back on while using a towel for a strong grip.

The thin glass argument makes sense. He has warned me repeatedly about breaking bottle necks and now I know why.

So a friend of mine is an old school homebrewer from England. I was relating my quest to find more bottles and he said that twist offs work fine. I was skeptical until he brought over a couple brews that were bottled 5 years ago. Perfectly carbonated. I need some old school experts to explain...

When you are young, you are much more desperate to get whatever you can. When you get older, you stick with what you like. Bad yeast can ruin a night.

A friend was raving about Stella Artois, I don't get it. I would rather have MGD for a lager. After enjoying Blue Moon, I expected I would love Hoogarden; blew $18 for a 12 pack and didn't like it at all. At least we can use the bottles for beers we don't like. And everyone has to admit...

I stopped by my LHBS and bought a bag of the plastic corks and some wire cages for the larger belgian beer bottles I have purchased over the months and they have worked great so far.