Hoegaarden

[mr.c]

Just looking at recipe and found this one.


Hoegaarden White Recipe

1 can Wheat beer 1.7kg

1.3kg Dry Light Malt

1/2 oz Kent Golding Hops(15 min)

1/2 oz Saaz Hops(5min)

210gm priming sugar/ Carbonation Drops

1/2 teaspoon Coriander seed (powder)

1/2oz Bitter Orange Peel (Curacua)

Safwheat yeast / Munton Gold Yeast

Brew to 23 litres.



Method:

Use a big stock pot to dissolve 1.3 kg of Light Malt in 3 litres of water then bring it to boil.

Then add coriander seed, orange peel and K. Golding hops. Boil for 15 minutes.

5 min before end of boil, add last bag of Saaz hop into pot.

Afterthat, turn off fire and remove all bags from pot. . Add Wheat beer into pot and stir. Transfer to fermenter and top up 23 litres mark with very cold water. Continue brewing in the normal way.

Think i will get it a go some time

[flything]

Hopefully ideal for the beginner with no kit (i.e. me).

Bought the ingredients today, apart from the Orange Peel but I'll track that down. Looking forward to giving it a go but it won't be for a week or two.

Cheers!

[flything]

Well its in the fermenter but I can't see it looking like Hoegaarden, used a John Bull can of "Wheat" extract but looking at the label its Barley Malt and Wheat syrup. The can was 1.6kg so upped the LME up by 100g to compensate.

Fingers crossed!

[flything]

Dunno, looks too dark - I was expecting the can of wheat to be lighter.

Still, its fermenting really well, made a starter this time and the fermentation took off like a rocket (withing a few hours of pitching into the wort) so I'm hopefull this is going to turn out well. Not going to worry about it.

[flything]

I'll post a pic when its done!

[cwrwfawr]

I tried the above recipe with a couple of differences.

I didn't have enough DME so use 500g DME and 500g brewing sugar and reduced the batch size to 19 ltrs. Used Safbrew WB-06 yeast.

I aerated the wort for 30 mins after just sprinkling the yeast on.

Good strong fermentation within 6 hrs.

I started it 3.5 days ago and now it's down to 1010.

I have just tasted it and it's like flat Hoegarden, very nice. Bottling tonight and I will let you know the final results in a week.

[fivetide]

I'll definitely be following your progress! I got hold of a West Riding Wheat a while ago with the intention of doing a full-malt Hoegaarden clone using coriander and sour orange, plus Styrrian and Saaz. It keeps getting shunted down the brewing ladder and now I'm running out of barrels / bottles that aren't accounted for, but maybe I will do it anyway and stick it in a King Keg after cleaning out the dregs of Smugglers sloshing around in it!

[fivetide]

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[pongobilly]

Just looking at recipe and found this one.


Hoegaarden White Recipe

1 can Wheat beer 1.7kg

1.3kg Dry Light Malt

1/2 oz Kent Golding Hops(15 min)

1/2 oz Saaz Hops(5min)

210gm priming sugar/ Carbonation Drops

1/2 teaspoon Coriander seed (powder)

1/2oz Bitter Orange Peel (Curacua)

Safwheat yeast / Munton Gold Yeast

Brew to 23 litres.



Method:

Use a big stock pot to dissolve 1.3 kg of Light Malt in 3 litres of water then bring it to boil.

Then add coriander seed, orange peel and K. Golding hops. Boil for 15 minutes.

5 min before end of boil, add last bag of Saaz hop into pot.

Afterthat, turn off fire and remove all bags from pot. . Add Wheat beer into pot and stir. Transfer to fermenter and top up 23 litres mark with very cold water. Continue brewing in the normal way.

Think i will get it a go some time

does the coriander seeds have to be crushed, and whats the best oranges to use just everyday big old oranges and just peel the skins off??

[fivetide]

does the coriander seeds have to be crushed, and whats the best oranges to use just everyday big old oranges and just peel the skins off??

PB - You can buy sour orange peel (curacua) dried in tubs, bags or by weight from health food shops, markets, supermarkets and other places that stock herbs and spices and things. Don't peel an orange unless you really have to

I'm a bit concerned about using powdered coriander myself too, bound to cloud things up further isn't it, but perhaps that doesn't matter? I'd rather boil and strain out a larger volume of seeds than add powder, but haven't looked into it too deeply yet to be honest.

[pongobilly]

any more recipes like this would be good for someone like myself who only has a stock pot, and wants to try something different

[cwrwfawr]

Hi all,

I opened the first bottle last night and it's absolutely amazing.

Proper Hoegarden, very fizzy, slightly tangy, lovely banana aroma. I am very, very pleased.

It took exactly 7 days from starting to drinking. £85 worth of beer for about £11 and very tasty.

I am very excited. Going to get another one going now.

Any questions regarding the process feel free to ask.

I will post a pic as soon as my camera batteries charge up.

[Russ]

Hi Cwrwfawr

Sound good!

What kit did you use as the base? , what temp did you ferment it at and what was the OG and FV?

Cheers

Russ

[fivetide]

Seven days from start to drinking perfect beer? I'm doing something wrong!


Good work though!