Lime Beer - What to use?

[Revvy]

This thread hasn't been posted in in nearly a year, and you're subscribing?

 

[MichaelsBrewing]

You posted in it

It is just so I won't lose the info. If it is not in "my replies" link I will forget about it.

 

[Twofox]

You posted in it

It is just so I won't lose the info. If it is not in "my replies" link I will forget about it.

He's stalking you Revvy LOL.

Actually I'll be brewing my Key lime ale this weekend. Using the zest of 2 limes and 1 cup of hand squeezed juice from the key limes (also knows as a mexican lime) off of my tree.

I've dialed in the pale ale and it's ready to try some flavor!

 

[MichaelsBrewing]

He's stalking you Revvy LOL.

Not what I meant... but okay

I am not following Revvys posts in various threads lol

I was simply pointing out that although I "subscribed" to a year old thread you and he still posted in it this week.......

 

[Twofox]

Not what I meant... but okay

I am not following Revvys posts in various threads lol

I was simply pointing out that although I "subscribed" to a year old thread you and he still posted in it this week.......

Sorry, couldn't help myself, didn't mean to indicate the wrong kind of..... stalking? heh.

 

[KozHops]

Wow, tough crowd.

Looks like I'll be trying this recipe out.

 

[jhorgan1]

Any word on this recipe? I'll admit to loving Bud Light Lime. I love limes in EVERYTHING!!! Gimlets my go to cocktail drink.

 

[DMace]

Reading through, it looks like they decided to go with a light pale ale. Then, zest key limes, or use lime marmalade.

As mentioned throughout this thread, I just used Mosher's Radical Brewing as a reference for the last two wheat beers that I brewed. The second of the two, I used key limes and got an excellent lime flavor... so I can attest to using key lime. In the first, I used regular lime zest and it was very lemmony.

I suppose if you were really going for BLL, then you'd have to split this into a rice adjunct mash, and then lager it for a few weeks. And not everyone, including myself, has the equipment to do a separate step mash.

 

[rooner86]

I'm pretty new to brewing but last summer i did an orange wheat that turned out alright but was a bit darker than i wished for a wheat beer. I think i will try a similar recipe but a lime style this time, anybody have any suggestions?

 

[teeotee]

I can tell you what NOT to do.
I recently made an NB American Wheat, to keep the wife happy with my new hobby i added 2 oz of Key Lime natural extract at bottling.
I had bottled half the batch unflavored then added the extract and bottled the rest with the lime for her. It was wayyyy too limey to the point of almost being undrinkable.
Not wanting to waste beer i bought some bud light and have been experimenting with ratios. I have found that 6oz of the lime wheat with 8oz bud light makes for a reasonably drinkable beer.
I will try again with the next wheat batch but will try the drops in the bottle method with say 6 bottles, so i don't lose too much of MY wheat beer .

 

[drummerboyas157]

I am currently making a light american ale and wanted some lime flavor in it, I heard the best way is using lime zest and vodka letting it sit for a couple weeks and throwing it in with the keg. I did 3 limes zest and 1.5oz vodka. How much will i need for a 5gal batch to just get a hint of lime?

 

[Pratzie]

subscribing for future reference

 

[Inkdrop]

What if you cold crash your beer, or filter it to get all the yeast out. Poor into a Keg and add a 2 liter of lemon lime soda in the keg with the beer. Or maybe just the lemon lime flavoring that they sell at the brew shop for making lemon lime soda.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Thread Necropoly...

I was looking at this thread for fast citrus sour.... Been doing the sour thing lately with Berliner Weisse and Gose.

Don't like the time required for traditional souring methods, but conflicted because I don't like faking it...

Been thinking Red Ale Grist with late addition of Clam Juice, Key Lime Juice, Lime Zest and Coconut. Pseudo-Salty-Sour Tropical. Then pitch 350F baked oak chips into the wort and sprinkle some S-04 or S-05....

Hmmm. Nah

I'm changing the Red Ale grist to;

88% pilsner
8% white wheat
4% acidulated malt

Im gonna hop with Wakatu.... Call it "Wakatu Key Lime"

 

[Schlenkerla]

Nobody buying crazy?

 

[LandofOZ]

I often use lime juice in secondary and or "roses lime juice" for mixing cocktails along with lemon peel

 

[Schlenkerla]

I often use lime juice in secondary and or "roses lime juice" for mixing cocktails along with lemon peel

How much of each?

Have you every got to the point that it's too much?

 

[saltymirv]

I like to brew a simple american wheat beer (50/50 wheat/pils). Sometimes I'll add in half a pound to a pound of caravienne. Pitch regular US05 yeast (although you could do a hefewiezen yeast as well), as fermentation is dying down, pour in a bottle of simply juice like this: http://www.simplyorangejuice.com/product/tropical-juice-drink

I like to go to the store and see which ones they have. That tropical one is amazing, the limeade one is good too. It'll kick up fermentation for another day or two and then die down. Allow to ferment another week and then package like normal. Your friends will lose their **** for this beer

 

[Schlenkerla]

Thread Necropoly...

Been thinking Red Ale Grist with late addition of Clam Juice, Key Lime Juice, Lime Zest and Coconut. Pseudo-Salty-Sour Tropical. Then pitch 350F baked oak chips into the wort and sprinkle some S-04 or S-05....

Hmmm. Nah

I'm changing the Red Ale grist to;

88% pilsner
8% white wheat
4% acidulated malt

Im gonna hop with Wakatu.... Call it "Wakatu Key Lime"

I'm brewing this now with juice of 1 lemon and 4 limes the zest, and 8 oz coconut.

Wakatu Key Lime

 

[Nomofett]

Don't like the time required for traditional souring methods, but conflicted because I don't like faking it...

Sorry, but this is one of my beer snob pet peeves. You're not "faking it" you're just doing it a different way. (Not to denigrate beer snobs, I am proudly one)

Just because you do it different than the traditional way doesn't mean it's faking. At least I hope not, otherwise all the beers I've ever made were fake since I BIAB or all extract beers are faking it.

IMO if it tastes like a sour beer, it's a sour beer. So if say go ahead and fake it, you'll still make a good beer in a lot less longer of time.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Sorry, but this is one of my beer snob pet peeves. You're not "faking it" you're just doing it a different way. (Not to denigrate beer snobs, I am proudly one)

Just because you do it different than the traditional way doesn't mean it's faking. At least I hope not, otherwise all the beers I've ever made were fake since I BIAB or all extract beers are faking it.

IMO if it tastes like a sour beer, it's a sour beer. So if say go ahead and fake it, you'll still make a good beer in a lot less longer of time.

I'd agree... I'm a traditionalist but more of pragmatist. Don't like the long time to make sours.

I made a Berliner Weisse with a yogurt culture to make big lacto starter. Basically a controlled kettle sour. For this beer I wanted to sour it with lime for citric sour and then get some lime smell and coconut aroma.

Its a non-traditional sour. I am drinking a Leine Beer Garten Tart right now that is very clear, clean and without funk but has a vinegar taste. I think they made a pseudo-sour with distilled vinegar. I was thinking of this fake sour when I mentioned faking it....

Faking it sometimes works and sometimes not. The NOT is a overly smokey rauchbier with liquid smoke vs rauch malt. Faking it is ok, unless it means a mediocre/lack luster beer.

 

[saltymirv]

I'd agree... I'm a traditionalist but more of pragmatist. Don't like the long time to make sours.

I made a Berliner Weisse with a yogurt culture to make big lacto starter. Basically a controlled kettle sour. For this beer I wanted to sour it with lime for citric sour and then get some lime smell and coconut aroma.

Its a non-traditional sour. I am drinking a Leine Beer Garten Tart right now that is very clear, clean and without funk but has a vinegar taste. I think they made a pseudo-sour with distilled vinegar. I was thinking of this fake sour when I mentioned faking it....

Faking it sometimes works and sometimes not. The NOT is a overly smokey rauchbier with liquid smoke vs rauch malt. Faking it is ok, unless it means a mediocre/lack luster beer.

I'd be pretty surprised if a brewery dumped distilled vinegar into beer. It's more likely that they let some oxygen in and acetobacter produced acetic acid

 

[Schlenkerla]

I'd be pretty surprised if a brewery dumped distilled vinegar into beer. It's more likely that they let some oxygen in and acetobacter produced acetic acid

Buy a sixer and tell me if you think different. I drank 12 and kept thinking when should start making easter eggs. Its was mainly the after taste. I didn't mind it, in fact I was thinking of doing a Miller High Life 12'r with several drops of the following;

Balsamic
Red Wine Vinegar
White Wine Vinegar
Worchestershire
Malt Vinegar

Might be more WTF, how to sour MHL....

Come fall I plan to do a sour brown hefeweizen or an American Oud Bruin.

 

[Nomofett]

IFaking it is ok, unless it means a mediocre/lack luster beer.

Yeah that's the key. I'm going to try two yogurt kettle soured beers in a few weeks during my vacation. (Also a lime, and a plum sour-I live in Japan and sour plum candies are super popular here)

 

[LandofOZ]

simply juice is a good alternative in secondary but I like mine more limy so I ganeraly use about a 1/4 cup of lime juice in five gallans plus usual lemon orange peels ............if not enough can alwas add more just before bottling oor kegging

 

[catdaddy66]

I just got some Keifer lime leaves that I will try to use in a lighter beer soon. Would it be out of style in a Belgian blonde?

 

[Weezy]

If the cream ale is especially dry, I like the idea. Assuming you don't want to brew a light lager.

Wakatu, and Moteuka hops? I wouldn't heavy boil hop to keep it more balanced flavor (maybe heavier dry hop)

I'd try lime zest at end of boil
Supplemented with lime concentrate used very sparingly, added after kegging, with an eye dropper, to taste.

Serve with a shot of limeade in the glass, mixed with the pour.

 

[nilo]

Recipe here.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Yeah that's the key. I'm going to try two yogurt kettle soured beers in a few weeks during my vacation. (Also a lime, and a plum sour-I live in Japan and sour plum candies are super popular here)

Ah, you posted in the other thread this weekend. Did you find your yogurt?

 

[Nomofett]

I still haven't looked yet, today and yesterday were the first days of my vacation so I spent them getting burnt at the beach and at a potluck. Tomorrow I gotta try to find a new computer, pick up my delivery at the post office from the "local" homebrew shop (there's just three in the county somlocalmis pretty relative) and then I'm on it