Bells Oberon Clone

[Jhoss]

I have not settled on a recipe yet and because here in Mich, Oberon is so available (except in winter), I 've pretty much given up on the recipe. If I were you I would study the previous posts and give one a rip (I doubt decoction is necessary). You will end up with a nice drinkable (semi) wheat beer either way. But side by side proven clones seem to be fleeting...

 

[John_Ferens]

Bells just opened up their house yeast, plus there is a clone kit at their very own brew supply store, where you can also purchase the yeast. This might be a good place to start, or just study the ingredients, create your own recipe, and just get the yeast from them.

 

[Romex2121]

I orderd the extrat kit a couple days ago and i seen wheere they are offering the house yeast, i got safale us-05 but i did collect about 6 bottles worth of yeast from the Oberon bottles , infact i just put it into a starter this morning to see if it'll take off and do its thing if so im gonna try to multiply it a few times and pitch it into the extract kit when i brew it in a week or so, if it doesnt work ill pitch the US -05 that was recommended by Bell if not using the house yeast ..
Soon as i get my mash tun together and pick up a few odds & ends im gonna do an AG version as well ....
They sure are proud of their yeast , if i remember correctly it was a little over $12.00 per pack plus ice packs ......

 

[BeerPhan]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I had an update on the recipe I've been using for this beer.

I'd been using the recipe that Bells had from their kit on their website and was pretty happy with it. I was basically doing a 50/50 split of 2 Row and White Wheat along with the .5 lbs of Munich and Carapils and I've also been doing the exact hop additions from their recipe as well.

For my last batch of this I brewed last fall, when I ordered my ingredients, I discovered my HBS shorted me on my White Wheat to where I only had 2 lbs vs the 6 lbs I wanted. So I brewed it anyway and just upped my 2 Row addition to 10 lbs of 2 row and 2 lbs of White Wheat. Left everything else the same and to my surprise, this brought me straight back to the first time I had this beer when it was still Solsun!!! I couldn't have been more happy to have my HBS make this mistake.

So long story short, fast forward to this year I just brewed up and kegged my first batch of this for the season. I brewed it the same way with the 10:2 ratio of 2 Row and White Wheat and I'm never going back. This is the best version of this recipe I have put together IMO!!!

Cheers!

 

[threeoten]

Digging up an ancient thread here... but I read the entire thing and I haven't seen anyone mention the water profile. The Bell's recipe shows the "Approximate Kalamazoo city water report (for reference)" but it's not clear to me if that's the starting profile or the water profile and then they adjust it or if it's the target profile they actually make Oberon with. Here's the one they reference:

Ca+2: 120
Mg+2: 32
Na+: 36
Cl-: 117
SO4-2: 40
Alkalinity: 286 (CaCO3)
pH: 7.72

What do you all recommend for a target water profile for this clone?