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Soulshine2

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Back in the early fall I went up north for a month to work . While I was there I did some hard shopping at my old LHBS and grabbed a couple bagged kits without much thought. One was tagged as a "Belgian Wit" so i grabbed it and today started my brew with it ,taking the usual steps , milling the grain , etc. So here I am water heating , grain milled twice and inside the bag I notice the set of instructions are for an American Pale Ale instead...my bag of grain wasnt pre-milled but it was mixed and packaged along with a 1 lb bag of flaked oats instead of bagged separately and the expected flaked wheat...uh boy. The hops looked more like a Pale ale as well...so I picked up the phone and called them . Told them my situation . Good news is , they hugely apologized for the mix up as it was bagged and instructions for as the APA but tagged outside as the Belgian ...Luckily my stepson is down here for the holidays and lives within 5 miles of the LHBS . They said send him in with my miss-matched tag and instructions and they'll "take care of me" when he comes back in March .
So what I did was omitted the flaked oats and subbed in some winter red wheat of the same weight. I also added the zest and juice of 4 big tangelos . Hops I used out of my sealed library collection which included Mosaic, Citra and Wakatu . All having citrus aromas and 2 of 3 are both aroma and bittering hops. Wort tastes nice and strong -orangey , citrusy /tangy,good bitterness...hoping for a good summer beer for poolside.
6 gallons-
9.5 lbs 2 row Pale malt
1 lb Crystal 20
1 lb red (winter) wheat

OG came out a solid 1.050 ,and looking for a 6 % abv .

Thanks
 
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After chilling this and getting it to my 6 gallon carboy which I keep wrapped in a layer of 1/2 inch carpet padding foam .By 6pm it was still too warm ,upper 80's ,and the basement was still too cold (50)to pitch yeast so I let it sit overnight . I shoved a loaded airlock into the bung and went to bed.
Yesterday morning I woke up and given the basement temp and the upcoming weather , I decided to pitch 34/70 which is a lager yeast but the temp I have going is right in its optimal range. One packet, dry , sprinkled on top of the now rested wort. That was 7 am.
Yesterday by noon I saw some nice top action and a slow steady bubbling in the airlock.
This morning went down to check it and was pleasantly surprised by the carboy and airlock loaded with kraeusen foam and some yeast bits trying to crawl out the top. So ,I had to rig up a blow-off tube into a partial jug of starsan and allow it to continue. The malty orange aromas coming off are incredible.
 

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