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Recipe for "Wit" (Belgian Ale)
(Recipe Type Partial Mash)
Fermentables : 4 lbs DeWolf-Cosyns "Pils" malt
3 lbs flaked (unmalted) wheat (cracked wheat works fine)
6 oz rolled oats
1 cup corn sugar (priming)
Hops
1 oz Saaz hops (3.2% AA)
Other
1 oz bitter Curacao orange peel
.75 oz sweet orange or tangerine peel
.75 oz fresh ground coriander seed
.5 oz fresh ground anise seed
A pinch of ground cumin
10 ml 88% food-grade lactic acid (at bottling)
Yeast BrewTek "Belgian Wheat" yeast
Procedure Dough-in grains with 3 gallons of soft water at ~90F. Protein rests:
30 minutes @ 117F
30 minutes @ 122F
30 minutes @ 126F (at this point, the wheat appears dissolved)
Pull first decoction; thickest third of the mash
Heat decoction to 160F, rest 15 minutes
Heat decoction to boiling, boil 15 minutes
Return boiling decoction to rest mash and stir.
Mash temperature should be near 145F. Rest 15 minutes.
Pull second decoction; thickest third of the mash
Heat decoction to 160F, rest 10 minutes
Heat decoction to boiling, boil 10 minutes
Return boiling decoction to rest mash and stir.
Mash temperature should be near 162F. Rest 15 minutes.
Check starch. If not converted, rest longer.
Mash-out: 10 minutes @ 170F
Sparge: 5 gallons @ 170F
Boil 60 minutes, adding hops at the beginning. Spices are added in the last 10 minutes of the boil
or at knockout. I used a single- stage ferment (as I usually do). OG: 1.038. TG: 1.002.
Adding the lactic acid rather than biologically souring the beer is definitely a shortcut, and one
that adds time to the processing, as it takes longer after bottling for the flavors to "marry" than for
conditioning to develop. If you have a lactobacillus culture in your possession that will do the job,
have at it.
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