first brew, first recipe (modified) need some people to help look over it

[hammertym]

Hey guys, never brewed before, changed a few recipes to make something I think I'll like. Looking for anything glaringly obviously wrong in the below.

Aiming for something like hoegaarden

To make 23L

Ingredients:

Morgans ‘Golden Sheaf’ Wheat Beer 1.7kg

Wheat Malt 1kg (Cellarplus Wheat Malt Mix)

1 Hersbrucker Hop bag (25g)

Safale WB-06 Wheat Beer Yeast

Orange peel fresh (30-40g)

15g Coriander seeds, crushed

Method:

Sterilise the crap out of everything

Put extract can in sink with warm water

Zest 2-4 oranges. Looking for 30-40g of orange zest. No white pith, it will screw the pooch.

Crush 15g of Coriander seeds in mortar and pestle

Add 25g Hersbrucker Hops to steeping bag to pot of boiling water, simmer for 20 minutes,

Add 10 litres of cold water into primary.

Add 2/3rd of zest and coriander into same steeping bag other ⅓ direct into pot. Simmer for 10 minutes (1/3rd going into primary will be for aromas)

Remove steeping bag from pot

Pour contents of pot into primary (this will include some zest and coriander seeds)

Add contents of can and malt into primary and stir

Add cold water/ warm water aiming for 20c (this is optimum temp for fermentation) to 23l

Stir vigorously to aerate and mix all ingredients well.

Pitch in yeast

Looking for fermentation of 18-20c (lower the better)

Final gravity: 1010 or less

 

[helibrewer]

Seems pretty reasonable, the zest and coriander and about right (3:1) and your gravity should be about 1.046 to start. I typically use 50% barley/50% wheat for wits but there is probably barley as part of your wheat extracts anyway.

You are not using much bittering hop so I would consider boiling the entire hop amount for a full 60 minutes.

 

[hammertym]

Interesting, so if the can isn't pre hopped 60 might be better? I'll check that and make relevant adjustments. I don't want to add the hops to the primary in the first instance

 

[hammertym]

According to the can it contains hops already. In that case is the timing I have about right

 

[tgmartin000]

You need to boil the extract.

 

[Math0]

If the can is pre-hopped, you don't need to boil the can

 

[hammertym]

So no boil the extract, what about the malt powder stuff? Also good without a boil?

 

[Math0]

The only reason you need to boil is because you have hops, orange peel and coriander. Put the dme before boil than the rest when boiling. Decide when to put hops and stuff. I suggest 1/2pz at 60 min and 1/2 at 5 min coriander and peel at 10 min

 

[hammertym]

The only reason you need to boil is because you have hops, orange peel and coriander. Put the dme before boil than the rest when boiling. Decide when to put hops and stuff. I suggest 1/2pz at 60 min and 1/2 at 5 min coriander and peel at 10 min

So dme into the big pot, bring too boil, add 1/2 hops go in at start of boil, after 50 minutes put in peel and coriander and with 5 minutes to go (so 55 minutes after adding hops) add the remaining hops.

Then add that and the contents of the can into the primary and get to 20c before pitching yeast

 

[Math0]

Thats what i would do! Put in the can when the wort is still hot (not boiling) then agitate a lot to aerate and dissolve the can. Then pitch in yeast around room temp

 

[hammertym]

Ok, it's brewed, now for the waiting game. It's bubbling away, so my homebrew virginity is lost, wasn't too painful