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First&Tenn

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I've recently started brewing my own beer, and it has me thinking of making a beer for the start of the football season.

I've considered brewing a beer with orange flavor or maybe just making something that comes out similar in color to UT's orange.

That said, I would like to get some suggestions from any other brewers or beer lovers here.

If you give me a good suggestion and I brew it, I would probably be willing to send/bring a bottle to you sometime during the season.

So Volnation....What would you brew?
 
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Orange flavor and beer do not mix - IMO. As far as coloring goes, you could try experimenting with wheat beer to see if you could acheive an orange hue...
 
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SWIL said:
Orange flavor and beer do not mix - IMO. As far as coloring goes, you could try experimenting with wheat beer to see if you could acheive an orange hue...
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Blue moon has certainly made a fortune off of the combination...
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I'd go for the orange flavor versus the orange color. Then again, Franziskaner Hefe Weisse is close in color. Your best bet would be going with a wheat beer if you're going to incorporate an orange flavor. Review the Bavarian purity law, and stick to it.
 
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You could do a Dobblebock - I believe they typically end with the suffix "ator"

Kiffinator
 
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It's apparently hard to use real oranges or orange juice because of the acid content. orange peel shows up in some recipes though.

I have found a recipe for an amber ale that uses orange blossom honey, and that's the leader so far.
 
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Here's a suggestion from a buddy of mine from another board that produces his own home brew. We fondly refer to him as uncle Homey. Copied and pasted:

From Volnation.com:
"I've considered brewing a beer with orange flavor or maybe just making something that comes out similar in color to UT's orange."

If you want, copy and paste this for your fellow poster over there:

The only Orange additive that I know of is dried orange peel but that's usually also combined with cinnamon, nutmeg and cardoman (sp?) when used in traditional Wassail style Christmas brews. I've had success with those but it's not a beer for everyone. Belgian White with an orange slice is a good option to follow your theme but I would probably aim for something like a Pale Ale or ESB for the red/orange/brown hue and drinkability. Then call it what you want. For Baseball Season I made "Extra Bases ESB" for example.

I like someone's idea about the Dopplebock but the last time I made one the alcohol content went out of control and killed off the CO2 - it tasted good but with little carbonation we ended up calling it the "Flatulator." And we went squirrely drinking the stuff.
 
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First&Tenn said:
It's apparently hard to use real oranges or orange juice because of the acid content. orange peel shows up in some recipes though.

I have found a recipe for an amber ale that uses orange blossom honey, and that's the leader so far.
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most flavorings are esters. If you could find an ester that was orange flavored then you would be good to go as long as it was edible.
 
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Orange Blossom Amber

Beer Style: pale ale, amber ale, honey
Recipe Type: extract

Description:
I sort started "grabbing things" in the brew shop one day and this is what I ended up with. At all of my tasting parties this has been a unanimous favorite.

Of all of the beers that I have shared with friends, this is almost unanimously the favorite. I should note that it is very important to use Orange Blossom Honey, I made this once with Clover Honey and it had a "grassy" after taste. I have noticed this "grassy" after taste in every beer recipe in which I used Clover honey, USE ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY, it provides a residual sweetness that I find very appealing in an amber ale like this.
Ingredients:

* 6.6 pounds, Northwestern Amber Extract
* 2 cups Orange Blossom Honey (boil)
* 0.5 pound, crystal malt
* 1.5 ounces, Hallertauer hops (boil)
* 0.5 ounce, Hallertauer hops (finish)
* 1 tsp. Irish Moss
* M&F ale yeast
* 5/8 cup Orange Blossom Honey (priming)

Procedure:
Steep crystal malt while bringing water to a boil. Remove crystal malt and add extract, honey and boiling hops. Boil for 15 min., add Irish Moss, boil for another 30 min. Add finishing hops for 1-2 min. boil. After fermentation is complete, bottle using 5/8 cup of honey with one pint water for priming.

Submitted by: Dave Fortner

I found this recipe at beerrecipies.org, and it is the current clubhouse leader. The orange blossom honey lets me work in orange, and the amber color should give me the option to make it orange with food coloring.

What do you all think?
 
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First&Tenn said:
Orange Blossom Amber

Beer Style: pale ale, amber ale, honey
Recipe Type: extract

Description:
I sort started "grabbing things" in the brew shop one day and this is what I ended up with. At all of my tasting parties this has been a unanimous favorite.

Of all of the beers that I have shared with friends, this is almost unanimously the favorite. I should note that it is very important to use Orange Blossom Honey, I made this once with Clover Honey and it had a "grassy" after taste. I have noticed this "grassy" after taste in every beer recipe in which I used Clover honey, USE ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY, it provides a residual sweetness that I find very appealing in an amber ale like this.
Ingredients:

* 6.6 pounds, Northwestern Amber Extract
* 2 cups Orange Blossom Honey (boil)
* 0.5 pound, crystal malt
* 1.5 ounces, Hallertauer hops (boil)
* 0.5 ounce, Hallertauer hops (finish)
* 1 tsp. Irish Moss
* M&F ale yeast
* 5/8 cup Orange Blossom Honey (priming)

Procedure:
Steep crystal malt while bringing water to a boil. Remove crystal malt and add extract, honey and boiling hops. Boil for 15 min., add Irish Moss, boil for another 30 min. Add finishing hops for 1-2 min. boil. After fermentation is complete, bottle using 5/8 cup of honey with one pint water for priming.

Submitted by: Dave Fortner

I found this recipe at beerrecipies.org, and it is the current clubhouse leader. The orange blossom honey lets me work in orange, and the amber color should give me the option to make it orange with food coloring.

What do you all think?
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sounds good to me, and it looks like the tastings went well. You can pm me for my address if you would like :)
 
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Strange thing....

We bottled our blueberry wheat ale last night, and it came out orange.

I'll post a picture this evening, since we used a couple of clear bottles to see the color of the brew.
 
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I've been brewing my own beer for about eight years now. If you like the idea of a Belgian White served with an orange slice (called the "Orange and White," of course), try this Allagash White clone:

Allagash White

I've done two slightly different versions of that recipe, and they both turned out great.

Personally, I've always wanted to brew a high-gravity beer supplemented with flaked corn and corn sugar to up the alcohol, serve it in a Mason jar, and call it "Rocky Top Malt Liquor." Get your corn from a jar!!!
 
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If you are interested in actually brewing with oranges, pick up a copy of Randy Mosher's "Radical Brewing" ($13.57 on Amazon). He has good advice on brewing with just about any ingredient you can think of. It also has a lot of info on the basics of brewing most beer styles. Good book.

Another piece of advice: invest in a couple of soda kegs and a CO2 system. It's well worth it. Sanitizing bottles gets old very quickly.
 
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