American Wheat Beer Orange American Wheat

[vsusinga]

Sediment isn't indicative of gushers. It really depends on when you bottled. Did you make sure you had a couple steady gravity readings before you bottled? Depending on the yeast you used, you could of just racked more trub to the bottling bucket or there was more yeast in suspension when you bottled.

Yeh the gravity was steady. Maybe i shook it up a little before i siphoned it over

 

[Newbeerguy]

Yeh the gravity was steady. Maybe i shook it up a little before i siphoned it over

Yeah, I wouldn't be overly concerned.


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[bolus14]

Checked on this a couple days ago, about 48 hours after pitching the yeast and there were no signs of fermentation, I was a little worried. Checked this AM and there's some krausen on time so looks like she's moving finally. After the first check I started looking into WY1450, Denny's Favorite, and apparently this strain can take a long time to get through it's regenerating phase, which would explain why at 48 hours there weren't any signs of it kicking off. I ferment in white buckets, so I had to open it to see this, and while I had it opened I checked to see if there was any orange smell present. Unfortunately I didn't really pick up any orange, more "yeast" smell than anything so maybe the orange will come through once fermentation settles a little bit. Only other thought I have on the orange is that maybe the dry peel I got was older than what's ideal. Since I want to use this yeast for some other beers I may just zest 2 -4 oranges and transfer to a secondary on top of the orange zest if it doesn't come through.

It appears that Denny's can be slow to completely ferment out, but how long have most of you let this go for? I know some have called it finished in around a week to two, with this strain I don't see that happening and I'm ok with it since this is to be more of a late spring/summer brew for me. Looking to bottle more towards the end of the month, give it 2 -3 weeks in the bottle, then enjoy.

 

[KavDaven]

I kegged my third (fourth?) batch today. Rocked it back and forth for 15min, then let it sit for an hour in the keezer.

Tasted awesome! Three ounces of sweet orange is much better than two.

 

[depper]

I plan on brewing this tomorrow. My wife wants a tasty summer beer so I'm hoping this is what she's looking for...lol. She is my best customer! Planning on following the recipe exactly and using the full 3oz of sweet orange peel! Very excited about this brew.......Cheers

Tim

 

[bigdaddybrew]

Putting my mark so I can find this recipe later. It sounds good!

 

[depper]

So I just finished brewing this beer. My numbers came out spot on! I had 81% mash efficiency and my SG was 1.052. The only issue I had was that my LHBS only had whole leaf hops instead of pellets. This was the first time I have ever used whole leaf hops and never took into account how much liquid absorption they took up!! I was about 0.25 gallons less than what I wanted to have. Lesson learned. I'm sure BeerSmith would have told me to increase my liquid had I changed it to whole leaf instead of pellets. Otherwise, this brew session was a success! I will report back once I'm able to sample it in about a week. Brew on!

Tim

 

[optimal_pizza]

Brewed this today, smelled great, looking forward to seeing how it turns out. I subbed the 30 min addition with 0.5 oz cascade and another 0.5 oz at 5 minutes along with the orange zest.

 

[optimal_pizza]

checked the final gravity after 17 days in primary and hit 1.010 on the dot. gonna bottle in the next day or two.

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

Just brewed this with 1450. Gonna dry hop with some Citra and hopefully will get a really good citrus aroma out of this. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[Sammy86]

I brewer this up about three weeks ago. SG was 1.048-1.049 my own mistake got too much water in the sparge and not enough on boil off. Checked gravity today was down to 1.009-1.010. I used WYEAST 1010. Cold crashing as we speak and kegging on Wednesday. Going to let it condition some in the keg and carb at 12 PSI for about a week.

Sample tasted great and can't wait to see how this turns out!

Cheers!

 

[optimal_pizza]

bottled tonight, will check back in 3 weeks with the results

 

[Sammy86]

UPDATE:

FG was 1.008 sample tasted awesome! Keg is sitting at 12 PSI for a week...let hell week begin!

 

[optimal_pizza]

just tried some of my batch after 3 weeks of bottle conditioning. blech! barely resembles beer and has no orange aroma. i'll give it another week in the bottle and see if it improves.

 

[A2HB]

Just mashed in on this recipe, can't wait to see how it turns out!

Thanks for the recipe Tony!

Oh yeah instead of orange I'm subbing grapefruit and lemon peel, we shall see

 

[optimal_pizza]

this recipe was a bust for me, all my fault though, think the fermentation temperature got too high

thanks for the recipe OP! I'll try it again once I figure out what i'm doing

 

[Sammy86]

This beer is great! Thanks to the OP for posting! Bringing a growler to the family BBQ this weekend should be a nice addition and new tradition!

 

[Newbeerguy]

Just mashed in on this recipe, can't wait to see how it turns out!



Thanks for the recipe Tony!



Oh yeah instead of orange I'm subbing grapefruit and lemon peel, we shall see

Thanks! I'm sure it will turn out great...let us know

 

[TandemTails]

First time trying to brew beer. Did a BIAB method and ended up with an OG of 1.038. My boil off rate was way below what it should have been which is where the problem seems to be. Oh well, we'll see how a session wheat tastes in a few weeks, lol.

Update: 3 days have passed and I didn't notice any airlock activity at all. I was a little worried so I took a gravity sample and it's at 1.010 (about 3.6% right now). I'll be happy if it drops a couple more points to get me around 4%. I'm trying the sample and it's actually not that harsh or bitter at such a young age. The orange zest definitely is the strongest taste but you get a nice hit of the hops on the nose.

I'm going to call my version 'Reap what you S.O.W. (Session Orange Wheat)' since my OG was so low.

 

[arnobg]

Has anyone Brewer this with actual peel instead of zesting the peel? I was thinking about cutting the outer part of the peel off with a knife leaving behind the bitter white part.

Can the peel/zest be added to the boil in a bag like hops?

 

[arnobg]

So I brewed this recently and at first I wasn't so sure about it, but after a little more bottle conditioning I have to say it's a pretty good American Wheat beer. Hoping to save some for the spring when it starts to warm up.View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1457217522.992605.jpg

 

[tmartin110]

I am assuming that 2-3 oz of zest means by volume and not weight.

 

[arnobg]

I am assuming that 2-3 oz of zest means by volume and not weight.

In brewing ounces is almost always weight...otherwise it would be fluid ounces.

 

[tmartin110]

Ok. 2-3oz just seemed like a lot of zest, from not many oranges (4-6).

 

[Newbeerguy]

In brewing ounces is almost always weight...otherwise it would be fluid ounces.

Correct. It is 2-3oz by weight.

 

[tmartin110]

Well I was shocked to get 3oz of zest. It took 6 baseball size oranges. Just barely got it. Thanks.
Beer smells great

 

[Rxbrewer16]

brewed this yesterday. used 1 lb flaked wheat and 1 lb munich instead, as I don't have a scale zested 4 large oranges and used 1.25 tsp whole corander (which I crushed), hit gravities appropriately but only ended up with ~4 gal due to new system losses. Using this yeast cake with safbrew BE-256 for a belgian dubbel starter of sorts for next brew. Checked it over my noon hour today, and it smells AWESOME. Can't wait to try to it! Props on the recipe!

 

[wh7699]

What is the flaked wheat? Is it the wheat go through the malts mill to crush it ?or I must buy it
just like this picture?

 

[bolus14]

Flaked wheat is what you have a picture of, literally looks like flakes.

 

[jmcquesten]

What is the flaked wheat? Is it the wheat go through the malts mill to crush it ?or I must buy it
just like this picture?

Flaked wheat is different than just wheat malt that has been crushed. Buy the stuff in the picture, it should look like rolled oats.