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For the Big Spruce comp this year I made a couple different beers, trying to figure out what style the pin cherry yeast might work best with, and picked one to submit. This is the other one haha. (The one that went in the comp was a NE IPA, and did fairly well) This beer is a pretty straightforward wit recipe, with the exception of the yeast and some fresh orange peel instead of dried (think it was from a couple of castellana oranges). Bottled it from the keg with a beer gun. I probably should have bumped up the carb a bit prior to bottling so it might be a bit low for the style. Also came up a few points shy of my target OG, and the yeast finished a little higher (I brewed this one first so didn't know exactly what to expect), so it's light on abv. Tried to be a bit restrained with the coriander to let the orange come through and so the yeast wouldn't be buried. Haven't tried it in over a month, hope it held up ok.

ABV: 4.2%
IBU: 20
OG: 1.046
FG: 1.014
EBC: 6.5

Batch size 41L

0.50 kg Rice Hulls (0.0 EBC) Adjunct 1 5.3 %
4.00 kg Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (3.9 EBC) Grain 2 42.1 %
4.00 kg Wheat, Flaked (3.2 EBC) Grain 3 42.1 %
0.80 kg Oats, Flaked (2.0 EBC) Grain 4 8.4 %
0.20 kg Munich Malt (17.7 EBC) Grain 5 2.1 %
160.00 g Hallertau [2.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 20.1 IBUs
3.00 oz Orange Peel, fresh (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 7 -
0.80 oz Coriander Seed (Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 8 -
200-250bln Pin Cherry yeast

Cant find my water chem notes anywhere lol.

Mash at 122f for 15 mins, 154 for 45 mins
Fermented for 8 days at 68f, raised and finished at 72f.

Wow. I was reserved because of the pin cherry yeast, but this beer was great.

When I opened the bottle and poured, it smelled very familiar. When I tasted it, I did a double take because it tastes almost exactly like the saison I made a few months ago. It was kind of creepy, since they aren't even remotely the same as far as ingredients. My beer was :

2.5kg 2 row
0.25 kg crystal 30
0.25 kg flaked wheat

A bunch of Willamette for hops (60, 10, 0).

Wyeast 3726

Anyway, your beer was fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

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The wife and I really enjoyed this one. I like that the yeast didn't dominate and take over the orange and coriander. Carbonation was great for me. Kind of a saison wit hybrid. Thanks

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This was a great beer, well brewed. It had some restrained and pleasant spicy clove phenolics from the yeast, and the wheat malt, orange and coriander worked well in the flavour. Tasty.

This yeast worked well here.

I have some of that yeast left I may work on this recipe to build something.

I wanna go for something a little lighter by comparison to all the craziness I've been brewing lately.

All the flavors sit really well in this beer. I don't find it overly exciting or anything and it's not really supposed to be. It's just a nice easy drinking beer with a bit more flavors to contribute than your average beer in this realm. Really well brewed.

Thanks!


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Wonderful wit beer. Nice and fruity and spicy, the bitterness is spot on. Well done, thanks!

Thought this was a fantastic wit, thanks for sharing it!

Great job! Loved this one. Surprised to see pin cherry yeast was used.

Quite enjoyable and true to style. Thanks!

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Just tried this one, I love it, good job. You can taste the yeast's belgian like qualities along with the orange and coriander, it's really nice. If I had to offer any suggestion I'd say maybe less orange next time to let the other two flavours come through a bit more but like I said you can taste all three easily and it tastes great.

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Thu Jan 04, 2018 7:11 pm

Just tried this one, I love it, good job. You can taste the yeast's belgian like qualities along with the orange and coriander, it's really nice. If I had to offer any suggestion I'd say maybe less orange next time to let the other two flavours come through a bit more but like I said you can taste all three easily and it tastes great.

Thanks for the comments! I purposely tried to get the orange to come through a bit more based on comments from a Wit in last year's xmas exchange saying there was too much coriander. Go figure lol. I may play around with the recipe again in the future.