Corrales Blanco

Description:

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.