Schnitz, I checked out your Wit recipe. What did you think about the amount of your spices? Too much? Too little? I was planning:
1 oz Bitter Orange Peel
1 oz Coriander Seed, crushed
1/2 oz Grains of Paradise, crushed
1 tsp flour
Thanks for all the input.
This brew I actually went to an Indian food store and purchased some Indian corriander, it is much more citrusy than store bought (usually Mexican) corriander. I had used store bought on a batch a while ago, I used 1 oz and it gave my beer a hot dog flavor, so if you are using store bought corriander, crush some up and smell it before you toss an entire oz in your brew. If the aroma isn't very orange/citrusy then I'd use only .5 oz.
I also forgot to update that recipe, I used 2.5 oz fresh grated bitter orange zest, and .5 oz of local grapefruit zest (both taken from trees in my area).
I like the grains pf paradise, I didn't have any on hand, so I tossed in the chamomile.
A fellow brewer I know uses flower in his brew too, but I don't think it is necessary, just suck up a bunch of yeast during racking and you should be good. Having said that, I just completed my kegerator, and this will be the first brew I will be kegging, I will probably have it kicked within 2 weeks since I drink a few beers daily, so I'm not certain how clear it will become chilling in the kegerator for 2 weeks.
So your spicing looks good, depending on what type of corriander you use.