Hey Guys and Gals! An extract wheat beer with lavender, coriander and orange peel. Makes 5 gallons.
Ingredients
Step 1
- 3 lb Pils liquid malt extract
- 3 lb wheat liquid malt extract
- 1 lb wheat dry malt extract
Step 2
- 0.75 oz Tettnanger pellet hops
- 0.75 oz Saaz pellet hops
Step 3
- 1 tablespoon dried culinary lavender flowers
Step 4
- 0.25 oz Saaz pellet hops
- 0.25 oz freshly crushed coriander
- 0.25 oz sweet orange peel
Yeast and priming
- 1 pack Omega Yeast Grand Cru
- 1 1/4 cups dry malt extract or 3/4 cup priming sugar
Directions
- Bring 6 gallons of water to about 200 degrees and turn off the flame. Stir in all the extract until fully dissolved.
- Return to the heat and boil 70 minutes. Add the Tettnanger and Saaz 10 minutes in.
- Add the lavender 5 minutes before the end.
- At flameout, add the last Saaz, the coriander and the orange peel.
- Transfer to the primary, top off with cold water, aerate and take a gravity reading.
- At about 72 degrees, pitch the yeast. Ferment 1 week, then rack to a secondary for about 1 week.
- Boil the priming sugar in two pints of water for 5 minutes, pour into the bottling bucket, siphon the beer over it, bottle and cap.
- Store at 75 degrees for at least the first week to carbonate.