Cheap'n'Easy Light Wit (Hoegaarden-ish)

[SoberHans]

what about a gervin english ale yeast i found 1a them in my wine yeast stash there now? would that be any better?

[dave-o]

Not much different.

Gervin is the same strain as Nottingham IIRC so you might get a drier character..

[SoberHans]

fingers crossed and hope for the best then. i'll tell ya how my wheat ale turned out lol. again thanks for the advice next time remember 2 get some yeast

[andyCo]

Davo-o

Going to try a get another one in for Christmas, it will be my third attempt, the previous 2 have been bloody lovely ...thanks
Just been reading through the thread again and its says that you use the zest of oranges ..and then more recently you chuck the oranges in whole into the fv( score them first).
which is it or is it both, are the oranges added to the fv un-zested ?
what type of orange did/have you used.

My last at temp which was without the lime zest, I would say was a tad thinner and a bit more.... kinda raw/young/greener that a hoegaarden.
I'm very new to brewing and was wondering if I added more oats/un malted wheat would this help thicken up a tad, sweetening up ...over sweeten it ?

Thanks in adavnce

Andy

[dave-o]

I've always chucked in whole oranges, it's other people who have suggested zest.

Either is fine.

[greenxpaddy]

I found when I added orange juice as well that the beer was a bit too bitter/sour

[dave-o]

Yeah it would go a bit cidery with orange juice.

[mattybabsy]

I noticed someone said they used the yeast from a bottle of Hoegaarden- is it bottle conditioned?

[dave-o]

I doubt it's bottle conditioned, but given that the haziness is due to yeast in suspension, there must be yeast in the bottles - unless they completely cheat somehow!

[mattybabsy]

just did a quick search and it looks like they do- will give it a go and see what happens

[jonnyt]

I'm trying this out today, BIAB method starting with 34L of water treated overnight with a camden tablet, mash currently underway.

[polymoog]

Made a 10 gallon batch of this yesterday
smells fantastic
Full story viewtopic.php?f=24&t=46428 here with loads of pics!

[JammyMatt]

I finally got round to brewing this a few months back and found it to be a very good drop. Will very likely brew it again, perhaps with a few alterations just for experimentations sake. Cheers dave-o!

[jonnyt]

I managed to get 22L at 1.045 using my BIAB method. A little on the weak side but never mind!
Colour looked good.

[dave-o]

With lots of unmalted wheat and a standard mash, it's always going to be lower efficiency. It's worth adding perhaps 10% more grain that you normally would if you want to hit the gravity you're used to getting.