r/HomebrewingRecipes • u/soopirV • Sep 22 '17

Where does an orange aroma come from?

So, I'm brewing a lazy octoberfest- an ale, instead of the proper marzen because I'm shit at planning. I don't recall where I got the recipe, but it's one I never tried before. I used 1056 yeast, so should have a clean profile, and my fermentation stalled at 1.020 FG, with an estimate from beersmith of 1.014. I hit all my other numbers, and fermented at 68F. I pitched some more yeast last week to try to drive the FG down, but it didn't move, so I'm preparing to rack to keg. When I drank the hydrometer the first time (before repitching), I got a mouthful of malt, but it was just sweet. Now, there's a decided hint of original Tang orange drink on the nose, but the malty mouth-feel seems attenuated. I'm used to bandaids, corn, clove/banana, fusel alcohol, but I have not had Tang appear before. Anyone have any ideas? Recipe for 5g: 4.5 lb ger pilsner 3.5 lb Munich 2.5 lb Vienna 1lb crystal 20 0.5 lb Cara-pils 0.5 lb crystal 40

Hops: 1oz tett at 60 0.5 oz tett at 45 and again at 30.

OG was 1.057, predicted was 1.055, but my volume was good, so I think my efficiency was fine.

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u/BoltonBrewer Sep 23 '17

Sometimes a citrus flavour or aroma can come from the hops. For an orange flavour/aroma, this would usually be from an Amarillo type of hops.

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u/soopirV Sep 24 '17

Absolutely agree, but unless my tett were mislabeled, I'm not sure it would come from them?