Got this one bubbling away right now - so excited!
I did a bit of a variation of the recipe due to circumstances, but I hope it will turn out great, I have high hopes. Here's how it went down....
So SWMBO loves wits (allagash, hoegaarden, etc...) and so do I. I've been neglecting here tastes as of late so I decided that a wit was in the works - then I saw this and had an idea. 10Gal, split into 5 gal of classic wit and 5 gal of this lemon lime american wheat.
So I brewed 10 gal with this recipe (mostly what I had on hand...):
5# American 6-row
5# Belgian 2-row
1# Belgian Pale Wheat Malt
9# Flaked Wheat
1# Flaked Barley
4oz Acid Malt
75 min Mash at 153F
1.5oz of whole leaf Fuggles to 15IBU - 60 min boil
1tsp of yeast nutrient
At 15 min to end of boil, pull off 1 liter or so into two saucepans (2 liters total). Add to one saucepan .75oz bitter orange and .5oz cracked corriander seed. Add to second sauce pan zest from 3 small limes, .25oz cracked corriander seed. Boil both for 15 min along side the rest of the wort.
Chill all three vessels, split 8.5gal of post boil wort to 2 fermenters and add one saucepan contents to each fermenter. Oxygenate and add to the wit fermenter 3068 - Weihenstephan yeast and to the lime wheat added US-05.
OG: 1.060
That was 3 days ago. Last night I took half of the Simply Limeade, added 0.25oz of Sorachi Ace and boiled for 5-10min, added the rest of the limeade, chilled and dumped into the US-05 batch. By this morning the carboy was going f****** nuts!
I would say that is smells great, but its a mix of limey goodness mixed with sulfur sh*t from the 3068 yeast...
Anyways, sorry about the long post - I'm super excited to try both of these side by side and see the differences. I know that it wasn't exactly to the original recipe, but the intent was the same.
Cheers!