Just looking for a nice spring time belgian white ale recipe??



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Tags: homebrew belgian white extract, belgian wit brewing all grain, coriander, belgian white ale recipe

I checked around and this seems to be a pretty good recipe. I know it was a while since you posted, did you find another recipe? If so, which one are you using? Has anyone else made a Belgian White?

Brewing Method: All Grain
Yeast: WYeast Belgian Wit
Yeast Starter: 1000 ml (2nd generation)
Batch Size: 5 US gallons
Original Gravity: 1.053
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: %
Total Grains: 10.5 lbs
Color:
Extract Efficiency: 70 %
Hop IBU's: 20
Boiling Time: 90 minutes
Primary Fermentation: 7 days at 66 degrees
Secondary Fermentation: 20 days at 66 degrees
Additional Fermentation:

Grain Bill:

5 lbs wheat malt - DeWolf Cosyns (DC)
5 lbs pilsner - DC
1/2 lb quick oats

Hop Bill:

1.75 oza Saaz - 2.5% for 60 minutes
.5 oz Hallertauer Hersbricker 2.6% at knockout

Mash Schedule:

Mashed with 13 qts strike water to stabilize at 122 degrees for 30 minutes. Raise temp to 152 for one hour conversion. Mash-out at 170 for 15 minutes




Brewers Notes:

Added 3/4 oz fresh crushed coriander at knockout. Added 1/2 oz curacoa orange peel 15 minutes before boil end. Added 8 ozs rice hulls to mash, sparging was beautiful. Added 1 tsp rehydrated Irish moss 15 minutes before knock-out. Cooled with immersion chiller to 66 degrees within 25 minutes. Pitched yeast and aerated for 45 minutes with sterile filtered air.

A very easy way for the inexperienced brewer such as myself is to use just 1kg of wheat malt, a Blackrock Whispering Wheat Beer base, or any other good wheat base, and safwheat yeast. Then instead of hops get 15grams of Coriander and a couple of table spoons of orange zest (shredded up orange peel) and boil these up as you would bittering hops.

This is a very basic begginers recipe, but tasty.

My favourite Belgian Whitbiers don't bother filtering or using finings so for myself I would leave it cloudy.