DFH Blood Orange Hefe Clone

**adragster7104** · October 2nd, 2008, 10:02 PM

Heading out this weekend to pick up the ingredients

Here's the recipe:

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6 Gallon, All Grain
Ingredients:
12 lbs.2-Row
1 lb Munich
1 lb Carapils
4oz. Hallertauer pellets A.A. 3.5% (1 @ first wort, 1 @ 60 minutes, 1 @ 15 minutes, 1 @ 5 minutes)
Peels of three blood oranges (30 minutes)
½ oz Cracked Coriander (15 minutes)
½ TBS Irish Moss, reconstituted (15 minutes)
Belgian Wit yeast (WLP400)
Instructions:

Heat 5 gallons of strike water to 164 degrees, mash in and settle out at 150 degrees, rest for 30 minutes. Vorlauf until clear, then run off sparging with 5 gallons of water at 175 degrees to collect 7 gallons of wort. Boil for 90 minutes, adding hops, blood orange peels, coriander and Irish Moss as indicated above. There should be six gallons of wort remaining at the end of the boil; cool to 72 degrees, strain into a 6.5 gallon carboy, aerate well and pitch the yeast. Allow ten days for fermentation (single-stage fermentation only) before bottling or kegging.

O.G: 1.046

F.G: 1.007

ABV = 5.1%

I think the only thing I'm going to do different is, I'm going to use White Labs 300 Yeast instead of the 400. The 300 gives the slight banana aftertaste that I love.

**Jackal** · October 4th, 2008, 03:43 PM

Sounds delicious, let us know how it goes.

**adragster7104** · October 11th, 2008, 09:00 PM

Brewing now.....I couldn't find Blood Oranges so I opted for 3 Honey Tangerines, and a Navel Orange. Other than the oranges and the yeast the recipes the same.

**adragster7104** · October 21st, 2008, 09:21 PM

Bottling tonight

**adragster7104** · October 21st, 2008, 11:45 PM

Done bottling.....My final gravity was right on par with the ingredients

Should be around 5 something ABV. Tastes pretty good......although its really flat and kinda sweet right now. I can't wait to try it in a few weeks

**Anthony** · October 21st, 2008, 11:46 PM

Send me some.

**adragster7104** · November 2nd, 2008, 09:21 PM

Popped one open tonight.....
Pretty good

Its a tad bit dry....or chalky (Pretty sure I know where I went wrong) but other than that its quite good. Not as citrusy as I would like it to be....but it does have that great banana taste I love

Overall I'm satisfied....but it can definitely be better

**Jin** · January 8th, 2009, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by adragster7104

Brewing now.....I couldn't find Blood Oranges so I opted for 3 Honey Tangerines, and a Navel Orange. Other than the oranges and the yeast the recipes the same.

Don't they have Blood Oranges at most farmer's markets?

**adragster7104** · January 9th, 2009, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Jin

Don't they have Blood Oranges at most farmer's markets?

Yeah....but I'm pretty sure they're a seasonal thing. At the time I couldn't find any. Now I find them all over the place. I'm thinking about trying this hefe again with the BRO and doing a few other things a little different.