anyone ever done this?

[simonkidder]

im about to make a connisours wheat beer kit with half wheat Malt extract and half sugar. now i really like hoegarden beer and ve heard its made with orange peal so i was thinking of throwing some in the fv. or would it be a better idea to steep it in some boiling water and add just the steeped water to the fv?

 

[BeerEagle]

I think that the original beer is flavoured with Curaçao orange (bitter) and coriander.

Have a search on the forum for other's ideas but I boiled up some dried bitter orange peel (available from some HBS) and some (not too much) crushed coriander seeds in about a litre of water than strained it and added it to the extract in the fermenter.

 

[richc]

I'd avoid the dried peel from shops as most I've seen has to much pith and to little zest. As a slightly mad idea I've heard of people adding high quality marmalade as it contains boiled orange zest of the right type, sugar and not much else.

 

[BeerEagle]

Are you taking the pith?

IMHO you need some pith as it adds a different level of subtle orange bitterness.

 

[simonkidder]

well ill have a go with a little of the peel and a drop of coriander, just in the process of bottling my ginger beer then it will be on

 

[critty]

The muntons kit? Heard mixed things about it as I was thinking about it myself. But in the end I decided I was gonna do an extract instead.

My thread: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26028

I like wheat beers myself and I am wanting to make a hoegarden clone myself.

 

[pittsy]

hoegaarden , you want around 30g of orange peel pop in oven to dry out a little , and around 30g of cracked cori seed (seeds rolled with a rolling pin in a tea towel) boil liquid up and add orange and cori for around 1 min yes thats all 1 min sieve liquid and add to fv , it will be hoegaarden ish cuz you need a certain yeast and flaked wheat , torrified wheat etc etc but it should be good as is

 

[Buzzing]

Half wheat and half sugar ? What would the true connisours have to say about that ?

I just can not get myself to tell other people : "Come have a beer with me, I made it myself" if sugar's gone into it.


I've only done one Hoegaarden type brew, but used half wheat and half barley malt.

I also went the route of oven-drying some orange peel and steeping this in some boiling water with some crushed corriander seeds. Came out very good.

 

[simonkidder]

Yeah it's the muntons kit.

Let's just say it didn't go well!

I made it up short to about 18ltrs and left it in the kitchen last night and it looked fine this morning. Now on my way home from work I had a phone call of swmbo saying it had frothed over onto the kitchen floor

Then to top it off the new kitten (who is 11 weeks old) has decided to take a :drink: of the liquid and was :sick: on the kitchen floor.

Let's just say I've seen swmbo happier :evil: :twisted: :evil: :twisted: :evil:

 

[BrewDan]

Ahahahaha, oh dear. I had to laugh at that, poor cat

 

[simonkidder]

He's fine now playing with his scratch post! He's just lucky it had only just started fermenting and wasn't strong

 

[oldstout]

He's fine now playing with his scratch post! He's just lucky it had only just started fermenting and wasn't strong

Nowt wrong with a small tight pussy..........

:lol: