Double champion Wheat beer recipe suggestions

[NeedsMoreHops]

While investigating recipes as my AG kit is taking shape, I have just recalled that one of the best beers I have tasted was at a beer festival in the early 2000's; O'Hanlon's double champion wheat beer. I have not seen or tasted it since and cannot find much information about it online, other than it might now be called Goldblade.
If anyone could point my in the direction of a recipe to produce something similar I would be most grateful.
Cheers.

[seymour]

Yes, O'Hanlon's Goldblade is one-and-the-same as their original Double Champion Wheat. It's brewed exactly like a cool American Wheat Ale except with English malt, a blend of English and American hops, and English yeast. Here's my best guess, based on everything I've learned about it:

SEYMOUR'S - O'HANLON'S GOLDBLADE/DOUBLE CHAMPION WHEAT CLONE

6 US gallons = 5 Imperial gallons = 22.7 Litres

GRAINBILL:
46% = 3.91 lb = 1.77 kg, Two-Row Pale Malt
46% = 3.91 lb = 1.77 kg, Wheat Malt
8% = .68 lb = 308 g, Munich Malt or Pale Crystal Malt

MASH at 152°F/66.7°C for 60 minutes

SPARGE slowly at 170°F/76.7°C

BOIL for 90 minutes

HOPS:
.23 oz = 6.5 g, Challenger, 90 minutes remaining
.23 oz = 6.5 g, Cascade, 30 minutes remaining
.74 oz = 21 g, First Gold, 15 minutes remaining

YEAST:
Typical English ale strain, preferably medium attenuating, low flocculating, such as Windsor. Whitbread-B/Safale S-04 would be fine, too.

Do NOT filter nor use any clarifying agents, slight haze is desired

STATS:
OG: 1042
FG: 1011
ABV: 4%
IBU: 18
COLOUR: 3°SRM/6°EBC

Good luck!

[NeedsMoreHops]

Nice one Seymour, that sounds like a tasty recipe. I had guessed that there might be some orange and/or corriander in it, but it is so long ago it is hard to remember, and looking at tasting notes online, these are not mentioned. Additionally, my latest batch of beer has a distinctly orangey flavour to it that has come from hops alone so I can see how these would provide a citrus tang in the wheatbeer. I just need to pull my finger out and get my AG equipment sorted and I'm good to go with this one.
Cheers,
Chris.

[sunny_jimbob]

Whoah, that sounds fantastic. Straight onto the To Brew list!

[seymour]

BUMP.

Did either of you end up brewing this?

[NeedsMoreHops]

Hey Seymour, that is interesting timing as this is my next planed brew. I was planing this for sunday as I had finally got a complete AG set-up. Although this will depend on me having time to fix my mash tun and build a new false bottom/copper manifold as SWMBO 'accidentally' wrecked the last one after it's first outing.
I will provide an update when it is in the bag(bucket).

[seymour]

That's cool. Good luck then. I'm hoping to brew this weekend too. Fingers crossed!

[gnutz2]

I was planing this for sunday as I had finally got a complete AG set-up. Although this will depend on me having time to fix my mash tun and build a new false bottom/copper manifold as SWMBO 'accidentally' wrecked the last one after it's first outing.

So, your divorced now too?

[NeedsMoreHops]

lol Thankfully I thought quickly and suggested I really needed a stainless one. Happily the 'brewing equipment monitoring committe' was in disarray after the damaging and did not reject this. If I run into problems, I will mention again the destruction of the false bottom, which must have taken me about 4 hours to drill out completely. Evidence of the attrocity can be seen below:

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=60378

[sunny_jimbob]

BUMP.

Did either of you end up brewing this?

I did, but babby_jimbob #3 was born while it was still in the FV, and with all the madness involved in having a new baby it ended up staying in the FV for about 8 weeks, going off in the process Need to rebrew!

[NeedsMoreHops]

Well, I finally got this brewed today. I upped the grain bill slightly to 2.25 kg of the main grains and 390 of the crystal as I would not have got the required gravity otherwise (I increased the hop additions by a similar amount). Maybe I should have left the crystal as specified to keep it lighter, although I'm sure it won't hurt. The only other annoying change is us-05 instead of us-04 as I only realised there as no 04 when it was time to get the yeast ready (not sure where that packet got to!). All things considered, I think it will be a tasty beer, if not identical to the original. It certainly tasted quite nice pre-fermentation.
With the quantities used I hit 1.044 OG and calculated an efficiency of 69%, which I guess is not great, but quite good for my second proper sparge i think.
I will provide a post-fermentation update.