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Beer Style: Weizen/Weissbeir (Hefeweizen/Hefewissbier)
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 5 gallons
Description:
Hefeweizen made with seasonal blood oranges
Ingredients:
- 6 lbs Sorghum Syrup (60 min)
- 1 lb corn sugar (60 min)
- 0.50 oz Hallertauer (60 min)
- 0.50 oz Tettnang (20 min)
- 1 tsp yeast nutrient (20 min)
- 4 Blood Oranges (20 min)
- 0.50 oz Tettnang (10 min)
- 1 pkg SafBrew Wheat (WB-06)
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 7 days at 70 degreesSecondary Ferment: 7 days at 70 degrees
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.051Final Gravity: 1.004
Alcohol by Vol: 6.3%
Color SRM: 4.8
Bitterness IBU: 9.6
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 5.0 Gallons
Procedure:
Bring waterto boil, and primary fermentable sugars, return to boil and achieve hot break.
Add hops and other ingredients according to schedule.
Peel blood oranges and separate sections of fruit. Discard half of the peels. Cut fruit into small pieces. Grate the peel and save the rind only! Heat fruit and peels in 1/2 gallon water to 160 degrees and then turn off heat. Let it steep as it cools. Pour into wort when cooled according to schedule.
Chill wort until appropriate temperature to pitch yeast.
Bottle carbonate for 4 weeks.