American Wheat Beer Citrus Weizen

[Plan9]

My pot is only 7 gallons, I'm not gonna risk it.
I wonder what adjustments would need to be made.

 

[FSR402]

My pot is only 7 gallons, I'm not gonna risk it.
I wonder what adjustments would need to be made.

At the time I only had a 7 gal pot. It will be fine just watch the boilovers.

 

[pickles]

can i substitute the yeast you specify with Wyeast Bavarian Wheat yeast i'm gonna wash from my current hefe? or will the flavors be off?

 

[FSR402]

can i substitute the yeast you specify with Wyeast Bavarian Wheat yeast i'm gonna wash from my current hefe? or will the flavors be off?

That would be fine.

 

[crazy_piump]

I just Brewed this Citrus Weizen on St. Patty's Day and I think it's gonna come out very nice. I had to put a blow tube on my pale after about 12 hours and 24 hours after that it's gurgling away. Just a quick question though. Did you rack to a secondary or just go straight to bottle?

 

[FSR402]

I just Brewed this Citrus Weizen on St. Patty's Day and I think it's gonna come out very nice. I had to put a blow tube on my pale after about 12 hours and 24 hours after that it's gurgling away. Just a quick question though. Did you rack to a secondary or just go straight to bottle?

At the time I made this I was big into the "always secondary". But if I did it again I would just let it sit an extra week on the yeast and then bottle.

 

[Plan9]

I brewed this last Saturday.
I added about 2 lbs of Light DME, an extra 1/2 oz. of hops, zest of 2 limes and did a 3 Gallon Boil.
I just felt like experimenting i guess.

My OG was a little low, 1.041
I'm hoping I just didn't have the wort and water mixed well, and got a diluted reading. I guess I'll know when I taste it.

 

[RoaringBrewer]

Just a note. I brewed something similar to this thread (may have even posted my recipe in here) and used skins of 3 lemon and 3 orange. Next time I'd cut lemon all together or use 1 less of each. Too much zest IMO. Gave it a strange aroma actually and the taste is just so-so... this was my last extract batch and I have made some good wheats since AG, so maybe that is the problem too.

 

[pickles]

does anyone have an AG recipe for this?

 

[FSR402]

does anyone have an AG recipe for this?

I don't have one. Though I will be making one up this summer but wont post it unless I know it's good.

 

[elkdog]

I just bottled an AHS American Wheat kit, partial mash, adding the citrus as indicated in this recipe. The hydrometer sample tasted fantastic, nice refreshing citrus kick that was still in balance with the rest of the beer. I can't wait until this one is nicely conditioned, chilled, and in my glass on a sticky summer evening. Thanks for an excellent brewing idea!

 

[Mustangfreak]

When you say zest, do you mean the whole peel? If not how do I get the outside of the peel off?

 

[FSR402]

When you say zest, do you mean the whole peel? If not how do I get the outside of the peel off?

I used a potato peeler.

 

[Mustangfreak]

Good idea!

I can't wait to try this :rockin:

 

[elkdog]

Update on my batch: This beer is fantastic! My friends keep going back to the fridge for more of it. My wife and I poured a couple on a 95+ degree day last week, and this may be the perfect summer beer. I highly recommend it to anyone interested- tasty, refreshing, and easy to brew. Great beer.

 

[FSR402]

Update on my batch: This beer is fantastic! My friends keep going back to the fridge for more of it. My wife and I poured a couple on a 95+ degree day last week, and this may be the perfect summer beer. I highly recommend it to anyone interested- tasty, refreshing, and easy to brew. Great beer.

Really happy that you like it. I don't post many recipes unless they are really good, I don't want people making them and hating me for a bad beer.

 

[GearBeer]

Made this 2 weeks ago. I didn't bottle/rack it for 2 weeks for a variety of reasons: extended power outage (on a well), car trouble, and plain laziness. I bottled it today and I'm really excited, it's going to taste GREAT. The uncarbonated "beer" from my bottling bucket even tasted good (good enough to drink the 1/2 cup I had left over)! This is largely taken from Roaring Bull Brewery's version on page 2, but I couldn't get Northern Brewer and I added the carapils as suggested.

Name: American Citrus Wheat
Classification: American Wheat or Rye Beer
Brewer: Gearhead Brewery
Type: Extract
Date: 6/3/2008

Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 5.72 gal
Boil Time: 60 min

Ingredients
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.00 lb Wheat Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 76.92 %
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 7.69 %
0.33 oz Nugget [11.50 %] (60 min) Hops 14.5 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [6.30 %] (15 min) Hops 6.0 IBU
3.00 oz Lemon Zest (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
3.00 oz Orange Peel, Sweet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1.00 lb Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 15.38 %
1 Pkgs SafAle American Ale (DCL Yeast #S-05) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile
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Est Original Gravity: 1.051 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.052 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.015 SG
Measured Final Gravity: 1.009 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.73 %
Actual Alcohol by Vol: 5.60 %
Bitterness: 20.4 IBU
Calories: 229 cal/pint
Est Color: 6.4 SRM

Notes
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1. Steep Cara-Pils for 15 minutes at 155 F and 10 minutes at 170 F
2. Add DME and Honey
3. Boil and add Nugget hops for 45 minutes
4. Add Cascade hops, orange zest and lemon zest and boil for 15 more minutes.
5. Chill rapidly
6. Rack to Primary and aerate
7. Pitch yeast

 

[lkondolian]

6# Wheat DME (60/40 of wheat and pils)
1 oz. Hallertauer hops at 3.2% for 60 minuts of boil
at 15 minutes left of the boil add the zest (the outer part of the peals) of 4 large orange and lemons

1 packet of Nottingham dry yeast.

This has turned out great and the wife even loves it. A very soft, sweet summer beer with the hint of citrus.

This sounds wonderful. But why use Nottingham? Why not use a yeast which puts out fruity flavors?

 

[FSR402]

This sounds wonderful. But why use Nottingham? Why not use a yeast which puts out fruity flavors?

Because I did not want the fruity/spicy of a Heffe yeast. Wanted it to be clean, crisp and light.
Feel free to do what you want, it's beer, enjoy it.

 

[HossTheGreat]

Ok, pardon my n00bness here. This will be my first attempt at a non-kit brew and I have a few questions. First, If I am doing only a 3-3.5 gallon boil instead of a full boil are there any adjustments that I need to make (ie hops). Second, how do you recommend that the DME be added? Should it be added at the beginning and boiled for the full 60 minutes or should it be split up and some added at flameout? Lastly, I'm a bit confused about the DME. You have it listed as "6# Wheat DME (60/40 of wheat and pils)" Is this a certain type of wheat DME or is this two seperate types (ie 60% wheat dme and 40% pils dme)? Thanks.

 

[craven_morhead]

I just put a 3 gallon batch of this into my little fermenter. We'll see how it goes; I ended up adding an ounce of hops by mistake, and the zest from one orange and one lime. Looks like I'll be pushing 30 IBU. Not true to style, but should be interesting. Oh, and I used LME instead of DME after doing the conversion.

 

[Kpetersen]

Will be brewing this this weekend with a few tweaks in the recipe. Will let you know how it turns out, it looks great

 

[Kpetersen]

We did this this weekend, but now, looking back at the recipe I see it says dme. For some reason I didn't pay any attention to that meaning, duh, dry malt extract, so I used a wheat extract syrup. Will this cause a significant difference in the end result, and if so, what sort of difference?

 

[craven_morhead]

Somewhere I saw a conversion of .8 lb DME to 1 lb LME (liquid malt extract). It takes more LME since you have some water in there. The difference in your end result should be a lighter OG; did you take a gravity reading?

 

[FSR402]

Somewhere I saw a conversion of .8 lb DME to 1 lb LME (liquid malt extract). It takes more LME since you have some water in there. The difference in your end result should be a lighter OG; did you take a gravity reading?

yes that's all it will be. Just a lighter beer.

 

[Kpetersen]

Ok thanks. No gravity reading. we attempted to, but this was or first time using a hydrometer and apparently we didn't put it deep enough because it hit the bottom of the bucket. since the fermentation is only a week i'll let you know what the gravity of the fermented wort is.

 

[craven_morhead]

You're probably going to want to get a narrow cylinder, graduated or not, to float your hydrometer in. That way you don't need to drop your hydro into your brew bucket, and you'll be able to take samples from carboys and check the SG.

 

[Kpetersen]

Makes sense, thanks for the tip

 

[craven_morhead]

Just sampled this fairly young (1 week). I like it a lot; nice citrus notes. Great summer beer. I'll let you know how it develops.

 

[Kpetersen]

We bottled this this past weekend. taste is great, but way too light. that would be my fault for using one can of the liquid. what i think i'm going to is do it again for my next brew, use the liquid again, then add a bit of dry as well. maybe three pounds? that would be 3.3 of liquid, three of dry. I'm thinking that will work, and i'd like to start experimenting a bit more so i can get an improved feel for what effects certain additions and subtractions will have on the final taste. by the way, we substituted one grapefruit for the oranges and used six lemons, and the citrus taste is really on time. i think using the proper amount of malt is going to give this next brew a really nice balance. will let you know how the last one is after fully primed, prediction is good, but way too light.