![]() Unfortunately, I think the yeast must produce different aromas when fermenting under pressure as it was after priming that UFO yeast smell has become greatly diminished. A few days in the fridge after carbonation I was worried the flavor was too grapefruit strong, but it has mellowed over the subsequent weeks. I also primed in the keg with 3/8 c white sugar for 2 weeks at room temperature.Ĭoming out of the fermentor, the aroma was almost exactly UFO White Ale with grapefruit instead of orange. It has gone over great! I made a 5 gallon batch following the recipe using BIABcalc to reduce to my malt weights, but using the zest of 5 grapefruits, 1 oz of coriander seeds, and I harvested yeast from a few bottles of UFO White Ale. My wife and I went camping in Maine this summer, and she found that she really enjoyed UFO’s White Ale this was the first well reviewed recipe I found, so naturally I made it. This was the first of what I think will be many brew-dudes inspired brews for me. Keep the hops, corriander and the orange peel the same. Once you are ready I’d then substitute the pilsner and wheat malts with 8-8.25lbs of wheat LME. And rinse the grain bed with some of the water too, right back into the brewing pot. After the mash has been going for 60minutes, I would strain it out and put the liquid in with your brewing water. I’d say steep the 0.5lb of acid malt in the brewing water like you normally would for a specialty grain. At the same time, I’d start heating up 6 gallons of brewing water. I would crush and combine the munich, honey malts in 2.5 quarts of water and let them rest together at ~150F for 60minutes or so. First off drop the rice hulls, those were in there for my lautering needs. So this recipe may be a fun way to try something new. To do this with extract requires the use of a little partial mash process. This is for a 6 gallon extract/partial mash batch. Ok enough justification here is the recipe: Not enough to notice as sour, but enough to get the orange to stand out a bit and seem “bright”….if that makes sense. I also added a touch of acid malt to the batch, because I wanted to see if I could get a little bit of sourness. Not sure what flavor profile I was going to get with the American but I wanted to try a witte at the same time so there is the experiment. ![]() I decided to two 12 gallons and I split the batch into two fermenters to pitch two yeasts: WLP001 and WLP400, American Ale yeast and Belgian Wit Yeast. I wasn’t shooting for a dead-on clone, just a great wheat beer with an orange flavor and aroma to it. ![]() So I decided if I could brew something similar to it, I wouldn’t have to buy it. I love the orange background in the beer and last summer I must have bought two cases worth over the summer. I was shooting for something similar to Harpoon’s UFO White. ![]() Here is the recipe for my Orange infused wheat beer I brewed this past Friday night. ![]()
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