Orange Peel Hefeweizen Recipe

Orange Peel Hefeweizen Recipe

Type- Wheat
Average Beer Rating- 2.5

Description:
Orange Peel Hefeweizen recipe uses orange peels to enhance the flavor of the beer during the brewing process. The ABV for Orange Peel Hefeweizen is 4.3%.

Ingredients:
Fermentables
6 lb. Breiss Wheat Liquid Malt Extract

Hops
1 oz. EK Goldings

Fruit Flavoring
2 oz. sweet orange peels

Yeast
1 Safale T-58

Directions:
1. Heat 3.5 gallons of water to (155F.)
2. Stir in liquid malt extract.
3. Bring liquid to a boil and add hops and boil for 60-minutes.
4. In the last 10-minutes of the boil, add 1 oz. orange peels.
5. At the end of the boil add the other 1 oz. orange peels and cool the wort to around 80F.
6. Once its cool, add the wort to your brewing bucket.
7. Top it off with enough clean water (64-72F) to bring the water line to 5-gallons.
8. Add the yeast, and stir before putting the lid and airlock on the bucket.
9. Fill the airlock halfway with either water or Vodka.

Additional Tips
1. On bottling day, dissolve 3/4 cup of corn sugar in 16 oz. water for 5-minutes.
2. Add to the bottling bucket.
3. Keep your bottles between 64-72F to ensure proper maturation.

Beer Reviews:
Tobin’s Review 2.5 out of 5
This Orange Peel Hefeweizen recipe produced a beer with an orangish amber hue with a quick fading head. The beer had malty aromas that were slightly acidic. The beer was soft on the tongue but was very malty and slightly dry on the finish. Overall it tasted like a Belgian beer in terms of the sweetness. It was okay, but definitely not a recipe I would replicate.

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