Hoegaarden

[JohnJeye]

Where to get Bitter Orange Peel from though !? Any idea's ? Checked Tesco's and now I'm stumped

[johnh]

Where to get Bitter Orange Peel from though?

...bitter oranges

Seriously if you can't get it from your LHBS or anywhere else then just use a potato peeler to peel the zest of the zestiest oranges you can find. It works a treat.

[andyp]

Curiously enough, even tho I'm pretty much all grain now this is one final extract/kit idea I've planned for a while. Just like Fivetide it keeps slipping down the ladder. But sometime soon.

The goodies are a standard lager kit 1.8K, 1K Wheat DME (55%wheat, 45% barley), Styr, Goldings and Saaz hops, Coriander seeds and - I thought I read somewhere - Satsuma or mandarin peel being a touch more sour than ordinary oranges? Safale SO4.

The whole lot will be fully boiled, should be nice and light (lager and wheat malt) and plenty of priming sugar to get it nice and fizzy.

Maybe next month or when it finally warms up a bit - a lot.

[fivetide]

Ah. Well I've seen dried bitter orange peel at a local market stall that sells lose herbs and spices weighed from tubs. It's where I get my mace blades and juniper berries and what-not for pickling. If you live in a city then oriental supermarkets stock it. Otherwise apparently fresh skin (not just zest) from a few Seville or Curacao oranges will give a nice effect, as will drying the same and adding in chunks or grinding into an orange spice. I've no capacity to make this up just yet, but will have fun once I do.

[pongobilly]

are we using the coriander seeds whole, and can any one tell me where to get a large stock pot to do this in, can i use a geordie lager kit as a base for this

[andyp]

Any basic lager kit'll be fine. Whole cor. seeds crushed just before boiling seems to be the consensus. Your largest stockpot should do, I'm just boiling everything because I can - it'll probably give mine a 1% edge over yours

[Russ]

Anyone else done one of these recently?

I've just ordered the ingredients (I intend copying cwrwfawr's method/recipie ) If anyone has any tips or can just report back their results that would be interesting to hear.

Cheers

Russ

[JohnJeye]

I have tried it and it came out a very tasty brew. Will be putting #2 down soon

[Russ]

cheers John

looking forward to doing this and even more to drinking home made hoegarden sitting in the garden in the sun!

[Totem]

Im interested in trying this, what type of yeast would be best to use?

[JohnJeye]

I used Muntons gold but I would have thought almost any form of ale yeast would do the trick depending on your own preferences.

[mysterio]

Probably Brewferm Blanche is your best bet for a dried yeast, fermented on the warm side (21 - 22C).

[cwrwfawr]

I used Safbrew WB06 at 21 to 22 degrees. It's a new one and I found it to have a very vigorous ferment, over in 1.5 to 2 days with a very nice bannanary flavour.

[Totem]

Just had a price up on a website i use a fair bit. Anyway to cut corners? I would like to try but for £35 ish might seem like a gamble, Ive only done a few kits prior and never any boiling although this does seem simple enough.

[anomalous_result]

Well £5 is the hop bag(s) which are reusable so put that in the 'exceptional losses' column and you're down to £28.35 already. Then you're paying £4.70 for p+p which you can't include either so that's £23.65 Bargain. Just follow ano's simple and effective creative accounting techniques and you too can drink for nothing.