Wart Date - 2010.07.22
Experiment - Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat Clone
Last week I ventured to clone a great beet, Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat from the Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka, Ca. I was turned on to this beer by my son a few months ago and have loved it ever since. I have heard it described as “...taking a bite into a juice ice cold Tangerine on a hot summers day...”. I believe it so I decided to investigate beer blogs to see if anyone had cloned the beer. And I found plenty of ideas.
Some ideas were pretty far fetched to say the least. And many people tried to simply add cut-up tangerines or tangerine rind into the wart, which I personally don’t think that will work. Some even said you needed 8 oz of the rind to make the difference. Do you know how many tangerines you need to shave to get 8 oz or rind? A ton... That made me think that it would be way to costly to make large quantities of tangerine wheat using either the whole tangerine and/or the rind. So I thought there had to be some other method and tangerine oil extract came to mind. It is relatively inexpensive and goes a lot further than the raw fruit. So here we go...
Gathering bits and pieces of many different recipes, I ended up with the following partial extract list:
7lb Wheat Extract
2lb Pale 2-row malt grains
2lb Wheat malt
2oz Hallertau Hops
1 Winfray tablet
1 cup tangerine juice (from the rind shaven ones)
2 oz tangerine rind
Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Wheat yeast
This recipe set the SG at 1.056 which should yield approx. 5% ABV.
The trick is knowing how much tangerine extract to add. I decided to add the extract just before bottling instead of into the wart or fermenter. Since I am considering this batch an experimental one, I will separate the batch into 5x1 gal amounts with different amounts of the tangerine extract in each. The batch that comes closest to the aroma and taste of the Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat is the winner.
Bottling will be this weekend and I will add more on this experiment later...
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Let me know how it turns out dad, I wanna come up and have some Banegas Tangerine Wheat!
ReplyDeleteThanks Brian, My estimate is that we can do a taste test at the end of August, just before we leave for Italy...
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Dave i also love this beer and just had a case brought in from Cal so im going to hang on to a few and try your recipe look forward to hearing how yours turned out.
ReplyDeleteDave, new beer brewer, LONG TIME Lost Coast Tangerine Drinker.
ReplyDeleteWhat recipe got you the closest? Getting ready to do a brew with my neighbor and would like to know.
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