orange peel ?

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schmidtwit

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This may be a dumb question, so forgive me, but when using bitter orange peel in a wit, does the peel go into the primary or get removed/filtered before?
 
Boil the zest from about 2 to 4 oranges in the last 10 to 15 min, not too much longer or you might evaporate off the aroma.
I did that with my Belgian dubbel that I'm bottling in 2 days. It has a light orange taste, wish I had used 3 oranges instead of 2.
I bet 2 would be fine for a wit.
Here's a tip, use a vegetable peeler to cut the zest off, not a zester, that way the large chunks are easily removed, and try to avoid the white part, it will make it taste sour.

I also used .4 oz of coriander and every taste so far it was really overpowering, it still has some time to calm down though, not worried.
 

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