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Wheat Wine Recipe: What do you think?
wheatwine recipe from BYO:
OG - 1.098 FG - 1.025 IBU - 55
10 lbs wheat liquid extract
3 lbs amber LME
.5 lb crystal malt - 40L
1.25 oz Galena hops - 60 min
.5 oz Cascade hops - 15 min
.5 oz cascade hops - 5 min
1/2 tsp yeast nutrient - 10 min
1/2 tsp irish moss - 5 min
3/4 cup corn sugar for priming
WLP 005 British Ale Yeast
I want to add Sencha green tea to a wheat, or in this case wheat wine. Sencha green tea is a very grassy and earthy tasting green tea and I was hoping a more experienced brewer could give there opinion. Do you think that addition would go well with this recipe? I plan to add the loose tea leaves to the secondary. I'm experimenting with that right now. I've got tea leaves soaking in room temp water to see how long before I get any off flavors, I think not steeping the tea in any heat will make that problem disappear. Any input would be greatly apreciated.
Also what does the Irish moss do? Is it neccessary? Would would happen if I didn't use it? Just out of curiosity.
P.s. Sencha green tea has a very dry mouth feel and flavor if that changes anything.
Damn guys, no help here?
I was thinking, since fall is right around the corner I could ditch the green tea and make this more of a fall beer. Any tips? Maybe a specialty grain? What does give a beer like an oktoberfest that fall, woody, earthy, leafy taste? I have never looked into it.
I have never thought of oktoberfest as being woody and earthy. But I think the flavor you refer to is that more herbal quality which is from the german noble hop character. You're american hops in the recipe definitely won't give you that. Furthermore, I think that the citrus qualities of those hops doesn't sound like a nice pairing to the Sencha tea.
If you really want to do the green tea thing, and its a perfectly fine idea, I'd use a clean hop for bittering like a magnum. I'd use no later hop additions and go with your tea at the very end of the boil. I think the flavors you describe in that tea astringent on top of the grassy green quality. I think I have had that tea before I just can't be sure.
I missed this post earlier otherwise I would have responded.
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