Quick help needed please!

[Clint]

Hello all
Just decided on a brew day as plans scuppered....
Wanting to brew another witbier from the GH with Curacao and coriander ..recipe calls for saaz as a single bittering addition...only got some Apollo and magnum...plus a load of cascade, Amarillo.

Cheers

Clint

 

[The Baron]

use Magnum as a neutral bittering hop just adjust the amount to give the same IBU's ( even move the bittering addition to further down than 60 mins if you need to adjust the IBU's)then use your fave hop for flavour/aroma

 

[Clint]

Ok cheers! There's only one addition.

 

[The Baron]

I would use the Magnum as a single addition for the bittering and then build the hop profile from what you have got. The amarillo will give a ctirus/orange flavour so should compliment the Curacao and coriander maybe some cascade to go with it. You've got a good selection of hops to make a citrus tangy Witbier Good Luck Clint

 

[matt76]

@Clint - when I first did the GH Witbier I found the orange peel a bit much.

Second time round I left out the coriander and orange peel and just late hopped with a load of first gold. It's really good but does need something more - in hindsight I'd maybe use about half the amount of orange peel suggested by GH.

I've also recently done an american wheat using simcoe, citra and amarillo which is nice - the american wheat yeast reminds me of a German Weizen yeast and sort of damps down the hoppiness, I imagine a Belgian wheat yeast might do something similar.

 

[Clint]

Funny really...I've done it once before but thought it needed more!! I've only got the recommended amount to go with though....it won't go to waste!

 

[matt76]

No worries..... your beer, do it your way

(Can't help wondering how these additions came about though - I mean, a couple of hundred years ago how come your average Belgian peasant farmer just happened to have a shedload of coriander seed and dried orange peel knocking about. Perhaps the oranges migrated or were carried there by a swallow etc. etc. etc. insert Python sketch here..... )