Gaia
Beer Style: White (Wit)
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5 gallons
Description:
And incredibly aromatic wit, that has incredible citrus and tropical notes, and delivers a nice, dry, spicy finish that will have you finishing this beer quicker than you thought you would- incredible foam stability as well.
Ingredients:
- Malts:
- 6# Pale Rice Malt
- 2.5# Pale Buckwheat Malt
- 1.5# Flaked Oats
- 1.5# Cara Millet Malt
- 1.5# Vienna Millet Malt
- .5# Crystal Rice
- Adjuncts:
- 1# Rice Hulls
- .5 oz Sweet Orange Peel
- .5 oz Bitter Orange Peel
- 1 oz Coriander
- .5 oz Grains of Paradise
- .5 oz Dried Ginger
- 1/2 tab Whirfloc
- 2 tsp Yeast Nutrient
- .5# MaltoDextrin
- Hops:
- 1 oz German Spalt
- 1 oz Aus Vic Secret
- 1.75 oz Comet
- Yeast:
- Favorite Wit specific yeast or Belgian Yeast (I used wild strain home cultivated)
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 10Secondary Ferment: 3
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.060Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol by Vol: 6.5%
Color SRM: 8.0
Bitterness IBU: 25.0
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5.0 Gallons
Procedure:
Mash in all ingredients at 135F - 30-minute Beta Glucan Rest (Strike water will need to be around 150F) (at 15 minutes check the mash- should feel "pillowy")
Raise Temperature to 155 - Rest for 2.5 hours
Sparge
Boil
1 oz Spalt - 60 min
Adjuncts - 15 minutes
1 oz Aus Vic Secret - WP (45 min hop steep at 200F)
Pitch yeast at 67F, if needed raise 1 degree per day until you get to 77F
Depending on yeast flocculation (or lack there of)- dry hop may be what helps keep haze stability
Dry hop 1.75 oz Comet for three days at end of primary (lowering temperature to 60F)
If hops still in suspension- rack to secondary cold crash for up to 3 days
Bottle condition if you like (I kegged)- usually finishes within 2-3 weeks