Orange Honey Wheat - Recipe critique

[user 47834]

Would appreciate some feedback on this, it's my first recipe I've come up with myself! The bittering hops are me clearing out some old hops...

HOME BREW RECIPE:
Title: Orange Honey Wheat
Author: Rory Aherne

Brew Method: BIAB
Style Name: American Wheat Beer
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 21 liters (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 26.42 liters
Boil Gravity: 11.4 °P
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)

Hop Utilization Multiplier: 0.93

STATS:
Original Gravity: 12.5 °P
Final Gravity: 2.3 °P
ABV (standard): 5.42%
IBU (tinseth): 23.6
SRM (ebcmorey): 8.42
Mash pH: 5.4

FERMENTABLES:
2.2 kg - Pale Wheat (44.9%)
2.2 kg - Swaen Pilsner (44.9%)
0.5 kg - Blackswaen Honey Biscuit (10.2%)

HOPS:
64 g - Tettnanger, Type: Pellet, AA: 3.16, Use: Boil for 60 min, IBU: 23.6
20 g - Mandarina Bavaria, Type: Pellet, AA: 10.7, Use: Boil for 0 min

OTHER INGREDIENTS:
5 g - Calcium Chloride (dihydrate), Time: 60 min, Type: Water Agt, Use: Mash
3 g - Gypsum, Time: 60 min, Type: Water Agt, Use: Mash
2.74 ml - Lactic acid, Time: 60 min, Type: Water Agt, Use: Mash
0.32 ml - Lactic acid, Time: 60 min, Type: Water Agt, Use: Sparge

YEAST:
Fermentis - American Ale Yeast US-05
Starter: No
Form: Dry
Attenuation (avg): 81%
Flocculation: Medium
Optimum Temp: 12.22 - 25 C
Pitch Rate: 0.35 (M cells / ml / deg P)

PRIMING:
Method: sucrose
Amount: 137.6 g
CO2 Level: 2.5 Volumes

TARGET WATER PROFILE:
Profile Name: Balanced Profile
Ca2: 80
Mg2: 5
Na: 25
Cl: 75
SO4: 80
HCO3: 100

MASH GUIDELINES:
1) Strike, Start Temp: 68 C, Target Temp: 67 C, Time: 60 min, Amount: 20 L, Mash In
2) Batch Sparge, Start Temp: 67 C, Target Temp: 67 C, Amount: 9.91 L, Batch Sparge

WATER REQUIREMENTS:
WARNING: Boil kettle capacity (25 L) exceeded. Volume required: 26.42 L. Suggest reducing initial water volume to 25 L and adding 1.42 L sparge/top-off.
WARNING: Mash tun capacity exceeded. Volume required: 32.92 L. Suggest reducing initial strike volume to 23.77 L and adding 5.92 L sparge/top-off.

Strike water volume, 29.7L
Mash volume with grains, 32.9L
Grain absorption losses, -3.3L
Pre boil volume, 26.4L
Boil off losses, -2L
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma), -0.4L
Post boil Volume, 24L
Kettle losses, -2L
Misc. losses, -1L
Volume into fermentor, 21L

Total Water Needed: 29.7L


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Date: 2023-05-02 14:49 UTC
Recipe Last Updated: 2023-05-02 14:49 UTC

 

[An Ankoù]

Only looking at the principal ingredients, it looks a decent recipe. You're not getting anything from the yeast so I guess it's the hops and the malt profile that count. Not familiar with Schwann malts, it's the honey biscuit anything like Gambrinus honey malt?
If it were me, id be inclined to make it a bit and stick in more Mandarina at the end. They haven't got a lot of presence.
But that's just me. Give it a whirl.

 

[Sadfield]

Brew it!

 

[user 47834]

Only looking at the principal ingredients, it looks a decent recipe. You're not getting anything from the yeast so I guess it's the hops and the malt profile that count. Not familiar with Schwann malts, it's the honey biscuit anything like Gambrinus honey malt?
If it were me, id be inclined to make it a bit and stick in more Mandarina at the end. They haven't got a lot of presence.
But that's just me. Give it a whirl.

Never tried Gambrinus, I got the swaen stuff as it was all I could get my paws on.

I've packets of us-05 that need using but I might use lallemand kölsch instead for that more champagne like refreshing fizz

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Looks good, as @An Ankoù says, perhaps a bit more mandarina at the end.

 

[user 47834]

Looks good, as @An Ankoù says, perhaps a bit more mandarina at the end.

I was thinking orange peel and coriander seeds at 5 mins left in the boil might be an idea

 

[Jim Brewster]

I'd brew it. I'd be tempted to replace half the wheat malt with unmalted wheat because I like it in a wheaty beer, and US-05 may be a tad plain (although risk-free), but it sounds pretty good nevertheless.

 

[user 47834]

I'd brew it. I'd be tempted to replace half the wheat malt with unmalted wheat because I like it in a wheaty beer, and US-05 may be a tad plain (although risk-free), but it sounds pretty good nevertheless.

ya as i said earlier i might go for kölsch yeast fir that champagne like fizz.

i dont have any unmalted wheat so will stici with the malted.

must make me a sample tea with some honey biscuit, ive been hearing bad things

 

[Jim Brewster]

must make me a sample tea with some honey biscuit, ive been hearing bad things

Not a bad idea. Worth having a taste of a few grains for a rough idea too. Could perhaps dial it back a bit to 5% until you get a feel for it, if it's anything like amber malt it doesn't take much and could easily dominate