Now this may just turn out tasting like an ale - no bread scents, no spicy aromas; at the time I started the boil, the wort literally could have passed for a couple of lbs of Wheat DME mixed in the water - it smelled and tasted like wort - wheat scent, grain flavor, sweet back tone..
Here's the final recipe I went with if anyone else cares to try:
Bushman Wit - 2gal (<-- What SWMBO and I were jokingly calling it last night)
Ingredients:
13oz Flaked wheat bran cereal
3.25oz corn grits
20oz Malted barley syrup
1lbs pure cane sugar
0.25oz fresh grated ginger (I used a peeler on the root itself)
0.50oz Bitter Orange
0.25oz Coriander
1 packet baker's yeast
Bring 1.75cups of water up to 165* F - Remove from heat and add your corn.
Cover, allow to sit for 15 minutes
Place corn back on heat and lightly boil for 15 minutes (it will thicken out and absorb the water)
Bring 3qts water up to 165* F in a 2 gal pot
Remove from heat, insert a cheesecloth bag wrapping the sides, stir in your corn, stir in your cereal, cover then wrap with a towel, mashed in - let it sit for 60 minutes
Stir at 30min mark - temp should read mid 150s (I was at 156 dropped to 153 for my mash)
At 20 minutes, place your jar of Malt syrup in a bowl in your sink and start running hot water on / around it to thin its consistency
Bring 1.25gal water up to 168 for the sparge with around 10 minutes left in mash
At 0 minutes, unwrap and pull the grains out, squeeze the hell out of the bag!
Place a colander over your 2 gal pot, set the grain bag in it, the rinse the grains with your 168* water
Again, squeeze the hell out of the bag!
Discard the grain bag, grab your Syrup from the sink and mix it into your pot
Wort!
Bring your wort up to a light boil (entire boil will be 30 minutes)
[30min] - Stir in your 1lbs of sugar
[30min] - 0.25oz Ginger
[30min] - 0.25oz Bitter Orange
[05min] - 0.25oz Crushed Coriander (I used a spice ball)
[05min] - 0.25oz Bitter Orange
Bring it down into the mid / lower 70s, strain into your bucket (to get the orange and ginger out) - you may need to swirl the last 2 quarts or so around the pot to get everything off the bottom that settled while cooling - mostly boil leftovers however it looked to me like some sugar rested as well. Add top off water to get yourself to the 2 gallon mark, pitch your yeast and lock it.
OG 1.050
Gravity Sample:
Appearance - golden brown
Scent - Fruity, faint orange, little to no coriander, wheat, sweet
Taste - Sweet, grainy / wheat, little orange, little coriander, no bitterness
Took about 2 hours before blub.... blub.... blub.... blub.... Activity!
I'll update on this one for sure, should be interesting. Fermenting in the basement which sits around 67*F.
Ingredients:
Ginger Addition:
Corn Mini-Mash:
Cereal Mash:
Heating up the Syrup:
