Cranberry Orange Honey Wheat Ale
The holidays are just around the corner and our bees have been busy buzzing about gathering up ingredients for a special cranberry based homebrew. The honey wheat recipe is packed with orange and cranberry flavors that will sting the senses. The all-grain recipe below will make 5 gallons.
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Cranberry Sting Recipe |
5 gallons
All Grain |
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| 1.053~OG→1.013~FG→5.3%ABV |
28 IBU |
6.0°L SRM |
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| Yeasts |
| 1 smack pack |
1010 - American Wheat
Wyeast (Wheat) |
1 pack
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| Fermentables |
| 11.5 pounds |
Wheat
38ppg, 2°L |
5 pounds
43% |
Vienna
35ppg, 4°L |
4 pounds
35% |
Rice (Hulls)
0ppg, 0°L |
1 pound
9% |
Wheat (Flaked)
36ppg, 2°L |
1 pound
9% |
Honey
30ppg, 20°L |
8 ounces
4% |
| Hops |
| 1.25 ounces |
Glacier
5%, Pellet |
1.25 ounces
100% |
| Miscellaneous |
| 2.17 pounds |
Honey
Flavor |
1 pound
47% |
Organic Canned Whole Cranberry Sauce
Flavor |
1 pound
47% |
Whirlfloc
Fining |
1 tab
3% |
Orange Extract
Flavor |
0.5 ounces
1% |
Pectic Enzyme
Fining |
0.25 ounces
1% |
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| Single Infusion |
| 1 hour, 7.52 gallons |
Strike
Target 152°F |
4.31 gallons
163°F
1 hour |
| Sparge |
3.21 gallons
170°F |
| Boil |
| 1 hour, 5.78 gallons |
Glacier hops
5%, Pellet |
1.25 ounces
60 minutes (+0) |
Honey
Flavor |
1 pound
25 minutes (+35) |
Whirlfloc
Fining |
1 tab
15 minutes (+45) |
| Ferment |
| 14 days @ (68 F) |
Organic Canned Whole Cranberry Sauce
Flavor |
1 pound
7 days (+7 days) |
Orange Extract
Flavor |
0.5 ounces
7 days (+7 days) |
Pectic Enzyme
Fining |
0.25 ounces
7 days (+7 days) |
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Directions
Mash the grains at 152° F (67° C) for 60 minutes or until starch conversion is finished. Mash out at 170° F (77° C) and sparge. Collect 5.78 gallons (22 L) of runoff and bring everything to a rolling boil. Drop in your hops as directed in the recipe. After a 60 minute boil, chill the wort down to 67° F (19° C) and transfer to your primary fermenter. Pitch your yeast, whether it be a yeast starter, liquid or dry yeast and aerate well. Ferment at 68° F (20° C) for 7 days or until fermentation activity subsides, then rack to secondary and add cranberry, orange extract and pectic enzyme for 7 more days.
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Christian Lavender is a homebrewer in Austin, TX. |
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Published: October 16, 2012
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