Does anyone know where I can get a homebrew recipe for white beer please ?


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Does anyone know where I can get a homebrew recipe for white beer please ?


I do. In fact, I know several places.

Brian

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Does anyone know where I can get a homebrew recipe for white beer please
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I do. In fact, I know several places.

Brian

Does anyone know where I can get a homebrew recipe for white beer please ?

Belgian wit is pretty simple.

5 gallons -

5 lbs pale malt
5 lbs raw wheat berries (you can find these at stores like Whole Foods
a lot cheaper than a homebrew store. The Whole Foods by me carries them
for $0.79 a pound when the HBS wanted $1.20 or so).
2 lbs steel cut, or flaked oats.

3 oz saaz hops (~4 AAU)
..5 oz Coriander at 5 mins in boil

Gelatinize the wheat (and the oats if not flaked) by cooking them in
about 1.5 quarts of water per pound until soft and then I usually take
an emersion blender to them to break up the berries.

Mash everything for pretty good body, around 156 or so.

For the hops I only use about .5 oz full boil and reserve the rest for
flavoring and bittering. Pitch a good Belgian liquid yeast with .5
gallon starter (Whitelabs makes one specifically for wit) or culture
one.

_Randal

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Does anyone know where I can get a homebrew recipe for white beer please
?

Belgian wit is pretty simple.

5 gallons -

5 lbs pale malt
5 lbs raw wheat berries (you can find these at stores like Whole Foods
a lot cheaper than a homebrew store. The Whole Foods by me carries them
for $0.79 a pound when the HBS wanted $1.20 or so).
2 lbs steel cut, or flaked oats.

3 oz saaz hops (~4 AAU)
.5 oz Coriander at 5 mins in boil

Gelatinize the wheat (and the oats if not flaked) by cooking them in
about 1.5 quarts of water per pound until soft and then I usually take
an emersion blender to them to break up the berries.

Mash everything for pretty good body, around 156 or so.

For the hops I only use about .5 oz full boil and reserve the rest for
flavoring and bittering. Pitch a good Belgian liquid yeast with .5
gallon starter (Whitelabs makes one specifically for wit) or culture
one.

_Randal


You're missing blue Curaçoa peel ('bitter orange').
I wonder which brewery uses Saaz...
Joris

You're missing blue Cura=E7oa peel ('bitter orange').
I wonder which brewery uses Saaz...

I don't know if any of them do but when I make this recipe it tastes
(to me) shockingly like hoegaarden. I've messed around with the orange
peel, both the bitter dried version and even freshly peeled and it
doesn't really seem to add much. There is so much going on, ester-wise,
from the yeast that I think it gets covered up. But once again, that's
just my taste...

_Randal

Many thanks all for your help.

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You're missing blue Curaçoa peel ('bitter orange').
I wonder which brewery uses Saaz...

I don't know if any of them do but when I make this recipe it tastes
(to me) shockingly like hoegaarden. I've messed around with the orange
peel, both the bitter dried version and even freshly peeled and it
doesn't really seem to add much. There is so much going on, ester-wise,
from the yeast that I think it gets covered up. But once again, that's
just my taste...

_Randal