Rose water

[meadsupporter]

Rose water:


I dont know if you are aware, but some middle eastern stores sell a heavily scented rose water and orange blossom water.


Have any of you guys here tried to use it in a brew?

I of course will add it post boil/cooled wort as not to boil off the essence; but i was thinking of a orange blossom scented brew without the dry taste that comes from adding too much honey to achieve the "blossom" aroma.

 

[bleme]

Any aroma additions, especially those without sugar to convert, need to be added after fermentation is complete. I would add the rose or orange water to my bottling bucket with my priming sugar.

 

[Lazersgopewpew]

I brewed a wit with orange blossom water a few months back. I added about 14 tbsp to a roughly 5 gallon batch during bottling.
The taste/aroma mellows out during the bottle conditioning process making it quite nice though if I ever do it again I'll probably add one less tbsp.

As a side note though, Rose water (of course depending on where you get it) tends to be slightly stronger in aroma than orange blossom water so maybe use a little less.
The best course of action would be adding to taste, before bottling, one tbsp at a time.

 

[rinhaak]

Rose water:


I dont know if you are aware, but some middle eastern stores sell a heavily scented rose water and orange blossom water.


Have any of you guys here tried to use it in a brew?

I of course will add it post boil/cooled wort as not to boil off the essence; but i was thinking of a orange blossom scented brew without the dry taste that comes from adding too much honey to achieve the "blossom" aroma.

Resurrecting an old post: did you ever do this? I was thinking about making a Rose Wheat, and was really curious to see what you discovered. I was originally thinking about adding quite a bit, so I was surprised to see how little some users suggested using.

What did you find?

 

[bailiff48]

I used rosewater a year or two ago in a grapefruit wheat and had to go extremely light with it (post boil, in the bottling bucket). Did tests with a dropper and a measured amount of a similar beer...1 drop wasn't quite enough, but 2 was too much for me and my tasting subjects. Ended up with (if I remember correctly, don't have my notes handy) about 1/8 of a teaspoon for a 5 gallon batch. I thought it was good, but others thought it was a little too much. Neat part about it was that no one could definitively say, "That's rose water in there!". They could all tell that there was *something* different, but couldn't place it.