Comes out a real light, cloudy straw colour and its damn tasty and with a great aroma. Even better its ready to drink as soon as gassing up so it can be as quick as 10 days from grain to glass
I just had a play with some stuff on the net and put in amounts of stuff that I'd thought would work.Batch size 20lts
2kg pale malt
2kg wheat malt
500g orange blossom honey 5 min
15g coriander 5 min
20g orange zest 5 min
30g saaz 60 min
10g saaz 5 min
wyeast 1010 American wheat yeast starter.
Single infusion mash at 65 for 60 mins
Pret boil gravity 1035
Post boil gravity 1049
Final gravity 1010
ABV 5%
Fermented at 18-20 degrees. Pitched at 22.
Once it warms up in the glass it gets more of that funky wheat beer esters but no where near what a belgian wit or S-06 gives. More a neutral sort of wheat beer for the Mr's who doesn't like the bandanna clove esters in most. The coriander/orange is certainly there in the aroma and its neither too sweet or dry. Just enough bitterness for this style imo. Its been a great hit with all that have tried it especially sitting here on a hot day. I'm sure I'll change it around a bit though.
