Amarillo Wheat Beer - brewingbeer.io

The base for this recipe is an Amarillo pale ale, brewed as an APA. But this version is adjusted to work as a wheat beer. Lots of orange character. And it works very well together with the Munich malt.

It’s inspired by Blue Moon’s Belgian White, with added coriander and orange peel.

Recipe

Amarillo Wheat

American-Style Wheat Beer

Volume 25 l
OG 1.055
FG 1.014
IBU 30
ABV 5.38 %

Fermentables

2 kg

Barke Munich Malt

Germany Weyermann

33.33 % GP 18
2 kg

Pale Ale

Germany Weyermann

33.33 % GP 19
2 kg

Pale Wheat

Germany Weyermann

33.33 % GP 18

Hops

20 g

Magnum | Boil 60min

Pellet AA 9.7 % IBU 17
20 g

Amarillo | Boil 20min

US

Pellet AA 7.5 % IBU 8
20 g

Amarillo | Boil 10min

US

Pellet AA 7.5 % IBU 5
60 g

Amarillo | Boil 0min

US

Pellet AA 7.5 % IBU 0

Yeast

1 pkg

WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale Yeast

White Labs

Attenuation 74.0 %

Other

25 g

Coriander

Boil 15 min
25 g

Bitter Orange Peel

Boil 5 min

Process

Start by weighting out the malts – equal amounts of Munich, Pale ale and Wheat.

Crushed using malt conditioning and 1.4mm gap setting

Measure and portion hop amounts and coriander seeds. The coriander seeds I mill with a manual coffee grinder before adding to the boil 15 min before ending

End of mashing, after lautering boil for a standard 60 min, at the last 5min add orange peel

Preparing and sanitising the little helpers

Wort temperature at yeast pitch time around ~19C

For this beer I’m using WLP300 harvested from a previous batch

After 2 weeks fermentation it’s ready to be transferred to keg and moved to conditioning

There’s still a lot of yeast in suspension, WLP300 does not drop that easy

Results

Tasting notes:

Appearance

Golden-amber, hazy and moderate carbonation.

Nose

Oranges, coriander, floral, citrus.

Taste

Follows the nose, lot’s of Orange and a hint of coriander, wheat and clove.

Mouthfeel

Medium-bodied with a medium bitterness.

Summary

Orange goodness. I love how Amarillo hops pair up with Munich malt and orange peel in a pale ale, but together with wheat malt and and wheat yeast it adds even more complexity. Generally a good tasting beer, next time I might lower the bitterness to have it closer to a more classic wheat beer standard.