Corrales Blanco

Classification: wheat beer, wit, Belgian ale, all-grain

Source: Roy J. Bourcier (rjbourc@nmia.com), r.c.b., October 3, 1995

Here's Corrales Blanco - a basic all-grain Wit. Effervescent, tart, and just plain good. If you come up with an interesting spice addition for this, let me know.

Ingredients:

5 lb Belgian Pils malt
4 lb red winter wheat berries
1 lb steel cut oats
1 oz coriander (steep)
1 oz Saaz hops (60 min)
0.5 oz Hallertauer Hersbrucker hops (45 min)
Yeast Labs Belgian White yeast
10 ml 88% Lactic Acid at bottling
1 cup Curacao liquer at bottling

Procedure:

Add 2.5 gal 130F water to grains.
Mash malts 30 min @ 122F.
Add 1 gal boiling water to grains.
Mash 30 min @ 140F.
Add 1 gal boiling water to grains.
Heat and mash at 158F to conversion.
Mashout at 175F for 5 minutes.
Sparge at 170F.
Boil for 90 min.
Cool and pitch yeast.

Specifics:

OG: 1.053
FG: 1.008