Homemade Cilantro and Orange Beer
Homemade Cilantro and Orange Beer
Ingredients
- 20 cups (5 litres) filtered water
- 2/3 cup (135 g) crushed wheat malt grains
- 2/3 cup (90 g) crushed CaraAmber malt grains
- 3 cups (500 g) pale malt extract
- ¼ cup (35 g) Simcoe hops pellets
- 1 bag (6 lb/2.7 kg) ice cubes
- 6 g (about ½ of an 11.5 g packet) Lallemand Belle Saison yeast
- 8 dried bitter orange peels
- 1 cup (35 g) cilantro stems and leaves, chopped
- ½ cup (125 ml) water
- 2 ½ tbsp dextrose
- 8 brown glass bottles (16 oz/500 ml each) with swing top lids
Instructions
- In a large 20-cup (5 litre) pot, heat 8 cups (2 litres) of the water until it reaches 154°F (68°C). Remove from the heat. Add both types of crushed malt grains and cover. Wrap the pot in a dishcloth to keep in the heat. Let sit for 15 minutes.
- Hook a fine sieve to the rim of a 32-cup (8 litre) pot and slowly pour the water and malt mixture through the sieve. Wash out the first pot to clean out any residue. Place the sieve holding the crushed malt over the cleaned pot and pour the liquid over the grains. Repeat this process four times, filtering the liquid over the grains from one pot into the other cleaned pot. Finish off by filtering the liquid into the larger of the two pots.
- Add the remaining water (12 cups/3 litres) to the liquid in the pot. Add the malt extract and whisk until completely dissolved. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 25 minutes. Gradually add the hops without letting the liquid boil over. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- IMPORTANT: At this point, you must sterilize all of the equipment that will come in contact with the wort and eventually, the beer. To do so, wash and rinse all of your equipment, then spray with sanitizer.
Homemade Cilantro and Orange Beer