We used the recipe for the Blood Orange Hefeweizen from Extreme Brewing but instead of out-of-season blood oranges we used in-season heirloom navel oranges. We know that it won’t be much like the recipe, but it still sounds good.

Results

Overview

• Starting gravity (actual)
  • 1.056
• Starting gravity (expected)
  • 1.050
• Final gravity (actual)
  • 1.015
• Final gravity (expected)
  • 1.012

The beer wasn’t fully carbonated when we first tasted it (see picture at top). That was after only about a week in the bottle, but once it did carbonate it was tasty.

Recipe

Malt

• 6.6 lbs light liquid wheat extract

Hops

• 0.5 oz Hallertau hop pellets
  (used German Hersbrucker)
  • 60 minutes
• 0.5 oz Saaz hop pellets
  • 20 minutes
• 0.5 oz Hallertau hop pellets
  (used German Hersbrucker)
  • 10 minutes

Yeast

• Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen

Other

• 4 average sized blood oranges
  (used Heirloom Navel Oranges)

Brewing Notes

Timeline

• Brewed
  • May 26, 2012
• Transfered
  • N/A
• Bottled
  • June 15, 2012
• Tasted
  • June 23, 2012
• For the Hallertau we substituted German Herbrucker hops, which are a spicier version of Hallertau.
• No other substitutions noted (except for the oranges, of course).
• We used a plastic fermentation bucket so that we didn’t have to worry about getting the orange pieces out of a carboy.  
  Good decision.