Wheat Beer Orange peel

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Permalink Reply by Crusader-Rob on May 19, 2014 at 3:57pm

I used Zest of orange in a brew once, the orange is the flavourful part and the white part is just plain bitter. if you zest and use it fresh it adds a different complexity to the beer.
I'd recommend using a hopbag when you put them in, I had massive amounts of trub in my fermenter because of that and the hops... although i madre a hoppy beer with them, so you might be ok with a wheat brew.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Cannell on May 19, 2014 at 4:28pm

I chucked a stocking on the top of my fermenter and it seems to have done a good enough job of catching all the rubbish. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by vdog on May 19, 2014 at 5:48pm

I did a similar thing once when making a witbier, just used a veggie peeler to get strips of zest off the oranges (no pith) and threw them straight in. I can't see a good reason for drying the peel first, unless you were doing it miles ahead of time and needed it to keep until you made the beer - I reckon you could skip that step.

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