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ChuggasRevenge

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Long time drinker, first time brewer. I’m interested in brewing wheat ales, similar to Shock Top, Blue Moon, and Oberon. For me, these types are easy drinking and I enjoy the taste enough to want to try my hand at clones, and or something similar. Recently I’ve been obsessing over dunkel, hefeweizen and weissbier style beers as well. I’ve heard these styles referred to as meals in a glass. Lately my favorite choices have been Hofbrauhaus Weissbier, and Julius Echter Hefe-Weiss (a recent discovery).

I haven’t actually started brewing anything just yet, however I did just start a very short Tepache recipe just to suppress my curiosity and honestly, my anxiety about fermentation. I’ll know if I’ve made a delicious drink to impress friends and family, or vinegar in about 3 days. I’ve been gifted a nice glass carboy and some basic brewing equipment, and I plan to start an apple cider in a few weeks, as I understand the longer they’re bottle conditioned the better they will taste.

I’m genuinely interested in brewing just about everything. Cider, wine, and mostly beer. Not necessarily as a cost efficient method of obtaining large amounts of hooch, but mostly for the control of ingredients in which I’m ingesting, challenge, and satisfaction of producing something delicious that I’ll enjoy making for years to come.

Cheers!​

V
 
https://www.morebeer.com/products/blue-moon-clone-lunar-shock-grain.html

I have made this one a few times and it turned out good. Nice thing is everything is measure out for you so you do not have to deal with ordering individual ingredients as your first try. It comes in both All grain and Extract. I started with Extract and would certainly recommend it as a good start to brewing.
 
Long time drinker, first time brewer. I’m interested in brewing wheat ales, similar to Shock Top, Blue Moon, [...]
Sadly, over the years those 2 have slid into becoming very thin, underwhelming renditions of what they used to be originally, 15-20 years ago. You can do much, much better with a good homebrew, either a commercial kit or a homebrewer's recipe.

The site has a recipe database (drop down from the top bar: Recipes).
Here are the results for Witbiers:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forums/homebrew-ale-recipes.62/?prefix_id=171

and Oberon.
Bell's has a good reputation to keep up. But I haven't tasted an Oberon in years, so I won't judge.

I've been brewing my own Wheat beers for over 10 years, and they are very rewarding beers when well executed.
The original Hoegaarden (I drank those, back in the early 80s) is still the gold standard in Witbiers according to my taste buds.

So... Welcome to homebrewing and HBT!
 
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