Brewed Awakenings: The Hoegaarden Clone 08/13/09

[Triple Zero]

mmm Hoe Garden beer is delicious.

the traditional thing to consume on a sunny afternoon on a terrace on the street outside the bar is a large cool glass of Hoegaarden white with a slice of lemon (some people consider the lemon sacrilege, but it's good).

Lemon is the way to go, but it's not necessary. Have you tried an orange? Orange is more popular with Blue Moon than Hoegaarden, but it's a similar beer.

you're right, looking at your recipe it seems to be the stronger version of Hoegaarden, IIRC "grand prestige", which does go well with orange.

the "regular" one doesnt have (much?) coriander and orange zest in it.

[Suu]

Hmm. We had no idea there was a stronger version. It appears you Eurospags are once again keeping all the good stuff to yourselves.

Also, I hope we have enough air in the carboy, cause uh...That foam is risin'.

[0]

Hmm. We had no idea there was a stronger version. It appears you Eurospags are once again keeping all the good stuff to yourselves.

Also, I hope we have enough air in the carboy, cause uh...That foam is risin'.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! THE FOAM IZ RISIN'...WHATEVER SHALL WE DO....???!!!!"

I'll tell you what YOU shall do....

you shall:



and enjoy the beer when it's done. If I wanted limp-wristed sally-hangers drinking my beer, I would have asked Chuck Norris. That's right, I said it. Fuck you, Chuck. My beer could knock you down with a mere bubble from the airlock.

FUKK ALL YOU HATIZ! MAH BIER IS DA SHIZZ!

::PEACEI'MOUT::

[Suu]

Fine. If it go splodey you haz to clean.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Fine. If it go splodey you haz to clean.

i had a hoegaarden white earlier.. a whole pint... felt very tipsy.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I am excited to hear how this tastes.
I love the orange/coriander thing.

[Suu]

It smells awesome.

[Suu]

We were supposed to rack into the secondary today, but primary fermentation hasn't finished yet. However, the color is turning that nice Hoegaarden yellow. 

[Suu]

Still bubblin'.


This is going to be a STRONG ASS brew.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Yeayer!!

Do you have a hydrometer to check your gravity?

We're about to start a "toilet hooch" type cider.

[Suu]

We never took a starting gravity, so we're going by, "I think it looks good to secondary, what do you think?"



General Stuart has never had a problem before with his beer by not using a hydrometer, so I trust his judgement. From what I understand you don't technically have to rack to a secondary anyway, but I think we're going to since we have a lot of funk in the bottom of the carboy. This way it's a bit clearer when we keg and force carbonate.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

It isn't mandatory.
Just wondering what the ABV would be.

[Suu]

We're using a witbier yeast, which is genetically engineered to go so far from what I understand. So if it goes as it should, we should have about 6% ABV. I just don't want it to get undrinkable.

[Triple Zero]

Regular Hoegaarden is about 5 or 6% ABV, but the "Grand Prestige" version (that you appear to be making) is something like 8.6% ABV afaicr.

[Suu]

They need to import more Hoegaardens over here. 

Here's some pics:

First day we had the krausen.

Today.

That's only been about a week and a half. The color change is pretty cool.


In the other carboy is a lemon, ginger, orange, and long pepper mead.