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Belgian Wit #1
Witbier • All Grain • 5 gal
Classic Belgian Wit recipe. Great summer beer.
March 23, 2009 am 09:22am
5.0/5.0 1 rating
Ingredients (All Grain, 5 gal)
- 4.5 lbs
Belgian Pils
Belgian Pils
Pilsner style malted barley grain.
- 2.5 lbs
White Wheat Malt
White Wheat Malt
Weizens. Improves head retention in all beers. Contributes spicy flavor. Protein rest required.
- 2 lbs
Wheat Flaked
Wheat Flaked
Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.
- .5 oz
Saaz - 5.8 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Saaz
Used for finishing pilseners, continental lagers, and wheats. The aroma is spicy and pleasant with fragrant overtones.
- .5 oz
Saaz - 5.8 AA% pellets; boiled 10 min
Saaz
Used for finishing pilseners, continental lagers, and wheats. The aroma is spicy and pleasant with fragrant overtones.
- .65 oz
Coriander - (omitted from calculations)
Coriander
- .6 oz
Bitter/Sweet Orange Peel - (omitted from calculations)
Bitter/Sweet Orange Peel
-
Wyeast 3942 Belgian Wheat™
Wyeast 3942 Belgian Wheat™
Estery low phenol producing yeast from small Belgian brewery. Apple and plum like nose with dry finish.
Notes
Mashed at 154 deg. for 1 hour. Sparged at 168 deg. Added a pinch of cinnamon at flameout. The actual measurements for the orange peel are .35oz Bitter and .25 Sweet. I will probably add a bit more orange peel next time around. Overall, this is an excellent beer. Just a classic Wit.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 16 - Belgian and French Ale
Subcategory: A - Witbier
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.046 | 1.044 - 1.052 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.009 | 1.008 - 1.012 | |
| Color: | 3.4 SRM | 2 - 4 | |
| Alcohol: | 4.9% ABV | 4.5% - 5.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 17.6 IBU | 10 - 20 | |
Discussion
Delicious
2009-03-23 1:26pm
Bottled on 3/13/09. Tasted great at that point. Just cracked open the first one 2 days ago to check on the carbonation. Not fully carbonated, but excellent regardless. Will be brewing again this weekend and kegging. I wil be adding .5oz of bitter orange peel this time and .4oz of sweet orange peel. Possibly upping the coriander also. Also, forgot to mention.... Make sure you use rice hulls in your mash. I used 1 lb. to prevent a stuck sparge. With this much wheat, you're better safe than sorry.
Wow!
2009-03-27 8:29am
Cracked open the next bottle and I'm impressed. Add an orange to this beer and you've basically got a better blue moon. I only added 3oz. of priming sugar to the bottles as that's all I had left, so I'm a little disappointed with the carbonation level. Next time I bottle this I will add around 4oz. I plan on brewing this again tomorrow for the keg. If you like wheat beers, this is right on the money as far as style goes.
Another review
2009-04-27 10:56pm
I brewed a second batch of this. Added more coriander and more orange peel. I basically doubled both. After kegging, I determined that it was fine just the way it was. The extra orange peel left it bitter and a little too sour for my liking. I'm adding this to my catalog as a "must brew" for summer.
More followup.
2009-05-14 1:10pm
I just can't keep this beer around. It seems like I'm brewing this every other batch. Maybe it's time for a 10 gallon setup. Anyways, I brewed this again last night for a party we're having in a few weeks. Everything went as planned. Will keg in 10 days. The brew shop was out of Saaz hops, so I went with Tettnanger instead. The AA% was a little lower on the tettnanger, so I had to adjust for that so I'd hit around the same IBU's. I hate to stray from the original recipe since it was so good, but maybe this will turn out just as good or better. I'll keep everyone posted. As for the original batch from back in March...the carbonation finally came around after about 3 weeks. Everything about the beer is absolutely perfect now. And I don't usually toot my own horn when it comes to my beer.
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