dadbrew
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I've got 1 gallon of unpasteurized blood orange juice from my tree in the freezer. It's a pale reddish-orange color, and very sweet; I lightly filtered the juice, so there's a little bit of pulp in it.
I want to use this juice in a beer recipe, but I wanted to hear any suggestions y'all might have. As of right now, I'm doing partial-mash (4-5lbs grain + 1 lb DME + 3.15 lbs LME), but might be able to brew all-grain after father's day, depending on how loved I am.
Main questions:
- In terms of fermentables, my first ideas involved either wheat/pilsner, 100% pilsner, or 100% 2-row - thoughts? Going to shoot for a dry, boozy mash of 148-150.
- LME and DME would either be wheat or pale.
- When could/should/would I add the OJ? At the end of the boil to pasteurize it? At some other point?
- With the addition of OJ, I'm thinking I can either embrace the citrus character of the juice and use hops with citrusy notes or work against the citrus of the OJ with earthier, spicier hops - what would y'all enjoy or like to taste/use?
- Safale US-05 is the house yeast around here, so I'm sticking to that, unless Yooper drops something epic.
Thanks for your help.
I want to use this juice in a beer recipe, but I wanted to hear any suggestions y'all might have. As of right now, I'm doing partial-mash (4-5lbs grain + 1 lb DME + 3.15 lbs LME), but might be able to brew all-grain after father's day, depending on how loved I am.
Main questions:
- In terms of fermentables, my first ideas involved either wheat/pilsner, 100% pilsner, or 100% 2-row - thoughts? Going to shoot for a dry, boozy mash of 148-150.
- LME and DME would either be wheat or pale.
- When could/should/would I add the OJ? At the end of the boil to pasteurize it? At some other point?
- With the addition of OJ, I'm thinking I can either embrace the citrus character of the juice and use hops with citrusy notes or work against the citrus of the OJ with earthier, spicier hops - what would y'all enjoy or like to taste/use?
- Safale US-05 is the house yeast around here, so I'm sticking to that, unless Yooper drops something epic.
Thanks for your help.