Too much bitter orange. Help me save my beer!

Hi everyone,

Brewed up a witbier about a month ago, everything was pretty much standard with the flaked wheat, coriander and orange peel. I tasted the beer between primary and secondary and it tasted great, good balance of bitter orange and coriander and a good tartness from the yeast.

My mistake on this beer, was adding an additional .25oz of bitter orange to the secondary to try and enhance the orange flavor (maybe I should have used sweet peel instead). The result is a nice light witbier with a bitter orange taste that really knocks you back a step. If you've taken a big whiff form a bag of bitter peels, that's what it tastes like, almost leathery.

So here it is: how can I save my beer? My first impression is to back sweeten it a bit, but I've never done this before. Hopefully this would mellow out the bitterness to a degree. What type of sugar should I use? How do I add it, etc.

thanks guys!

 

Just ignore it for another month or so. It will mellow out with age.

 

What Yoga said!

Time helps mellow just about anything.

 

Ditto. All beers get sweeter with time.