Sunday, April 13, 2014

Batch 72 Witbier

3 gallons

2 lbs weyermanns pils
1.25 lbs weyermanns boh pils
2.25 lbs flaked wheat
6 oz gwm Vienna
1/4 tsp cacl
SRM 4

Mash 130 df 10 mins, 148 df 60 mins, pH 4.8
4.25 gallon boil, Og into boil 1.043

Boil 90 mins
60 mins 3 gr sorachi ace 11.9%aa, 9 IBUs
15 mins 1/2 tsp Irish moss
10 mins spice mix:  2 gr dried bitter orange peel, 7 gr cracked toasted coriander, zest of 2 oranges
5 mins 5 gr sorachi ace 11.9% aa, 3 IBUs
12 IBUs

OG at end of boil 1.055, add 10 oz water to get 1.053 into fermenter
Pitch: Dry hop 6 gr sorachi ace 11.9%, w3942 in 1/2 qt starter @ 73 df, move to 72 df.  Runs up to 79 df in 8 hours (going like crazy), move to 68 df, back at 73 df at 16 hrs.  72 df at 28 hrs, move up to 72 df.

Rack to secondary 4/18/14, move to 66 df.

75% brewhouse efficiency

Bottle 5/2/14 with 90 gr table sugar boiled 5 mins with zest of 2 oranges, yield 30@12oz, 360 oz, 3.0 vols co2.

Abv 5.2%

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