Jamil's Wit Recipe Questions

[Boilerbrewer]

My wife is a big fan of Blue Moon, so I'm going to brew a Wit for her (gotta keep 'em happy!). For those of you familiar with Jamil's Wit recipe (see below), what tweaks would make it a little more "Blue Moonish"?


5.50 pounds Pilsner malt
5.00 pounds flaked wheat
1.13 pounds flaked oats
0.25 pounds Munich malt

Hallertauer @ 60 minutes for 19.7 IBU

1.5 ounces fresh orange peel @ 5 minutes
0.4 ounces crushed coriander @ 5 minutes
0.03 ounces chamomile flowers @ 5 minutes

My inclination would be to drop the Munich and chamomile (I don't think Blue Moon has either of these). I haven't brewed a Wit before, so I don't have any real sense for the intensity of the coriander and orange peel.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[6thstreetbrewer]

Just kind of wingin it here, but the recipe's probably alright. Maybe up the coriander a bit to give it a little more candy orange flavor. The biggest thing I would do to try and replicate Blue Moon is to just use an American Wheat yeast instead of a wit yeast. Blue Moon just doesn't have those phenolics that will come from the wit yeast. You could always try a kolsch yeast too. I bet you if you brewed the recipe as is she would probably enjoy that as well.

[Boilerbrewer]

Thanks for the suggestions......I just harvested some of the Wyeast 2575 (Koelsch II) from a previous batch, so that would be ready to go.

[Steelers&Beer]

i've made JZ's wit a couple of times, it's great. don't change a thing. if the SWMBO has tried Hoeggarrden and likes it, you're golden. Later, Drew