Brewing Citra wheat

[brew4allMI]

Hello everybody,

I am looking for some input on this recipe for a wheat beer as it will be turning to spring soon and the craving for wheat (summer beers) will take over. Should I mash my grains? I know that the belgain munich is not a specialty grain...

7lb Wheat Malt Extract Syrup
8oz Belgian CaraVienne
8oz Belgian Munich
8oz Honey Malt

HOPS:
60 min 0.500 Citra ~ pellet
20 min 0.250 Citra ~ pellet
15 min 0.500 Liberty ~ pellet
5 min 0.500 Liberty ~ pellet
1 min 0.250 Citra ~ pellet

Yeast
White Labs American Hefeweizen Ale (WLP320)

Primary 14 days then bottle

 

[tgmartin000]

I'd ditch the liberty personally. Have you used that yeast before?

I zested 5 lemons into my wheat last time. It was great,but next time imma go with more variety ...lemon, orange, maybe a bit of grapefruit.

How many ibus and og?

 

[brew4allMI]

Why would you get rid of the liberty? I have not used that yeast before, I have used American 1010 in the first and only wheat beer I have brewed.

 

[brew4allMI]

I'd ditch the liberty personally. Have you used that yeast before?

I zested 5 lemons into my wheat last time. It was great,but next time imma go with more variety ...lemon, orange, maybe a bit of grapefruit.

How many ibus and og?

According to Hopville IBU's are 32 and OG is 1.056. When did you put the lemon zest in?

 

[tgmartin000]

10 minute boil on the zest. Liberty are bred from noble hops. I tend not to mix my noble and American hops. If you're going for citra wheat, use citra for your flavor IMO.

 

[brew4allMI]

10 minute boil on the zest. Liberty are bred from noble hops. I tend not to mix my noble and American hops. If you're going for citra wheat, use citra for your flavor IMO.

Do you sterilize the orange/lemon peel before you zest it into the beer? If I add fresh orange zest do you think with my hop additions it will be too citrusy?

 

[tgmartin000]

No need to sterilize, the boil will do it for you. I think the orange zest will add a nice compliment to the hops, just try to stay in the 30 ibu range. I think mine was jyst a 60 and 10 minute hop addition, wheats typically don't have a lot of hop flavor.

 

[brew4allMI]

No need to sterilize, the boil will do it for you. I think the orange zest will add a nice compliment to the hops, just try to stay in the 30 ibu range. I think mine was jyst a 60 and 10 minute hop addition, wheats typically don't have a lot of hop flavor.

I am looking forward to this beer now. I am using honey malt as well so I think that will go great with everything including the orange peel addition. According to hopville.com my ibu are around 20-25.. Using Hefeweizen yeast