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Blood Orange Belgian - All Grain Beer Brewing Kit (5 Gallons)

Blood Orange Belgian - All Grain Beer Brewing Kit (5 Gallons)

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Description

Are you looking for a nice, crisp, and cool beer for the summer heat? Morebeer! has got you covered.

This Belgian starts with a crisp pilsner base to build from and then it adds the floral, spiciness of Helga hops during the boil. To top it all off the beer has an interesting citrus back ground flavor from the blood oranges to make it the perfect thirst quencher for a hot summer day.  You can either choose a neutral yeast like Giga Nor Cal or you can choose from various Belgian Strains that will add various degrees of clove/banana flavor to the beer. If you know you like interesting Belgian beers opt for a Belgian strain. If you are thinking general crowd pleaser then go with Giga Nor Cal or White Labs California.

Recipe includes 1lb of Belgian Style Blood Orange Candi Syrup that is made in the USA from 100% cane sugar. As the reviews note the Blood Orange flavor is not overwhelming but does add a background flavor. We suggest you aso read the five star reviews for the Blood Orange Candi Sugar itself. It is always a fine line between having your beer have an artificial fruit flavor that jumps out of the glass versus a natural flavor that is blended into the beeer itself.  We think the latter is the case. If you think you want a more pronounced orange flavor purchase an additional 1lb of Blood Orange Candi Sugar - of course you are also adding residual alcohol as well. Beware this is an easy drinking beer that can sneek up on you!  

For the greatest flavor impact add the Blood Orange Candi Sugar directly to the fermenter after high krausen has passed, or roughly 3 days into active fermentation.  

Get your kit today and make a nice light beer that is easy to drink by the pool.

  • Makes 5 gallons
  • Estimated Original Gravity: 1.049-1.052
  • SRM (Color Range): 3-5
  • IBUs: 30-31
  • Estimated Alcoohol Percentage: 5.1-5.5%

 

Our recipe kits DO NOT include grain bags, yeast or priming sugar. To find our yeast recommendations, choose your preferred kit option above and then select the drop-down menu under “Yeast Options”.  For more info, click on the recommended yeast(s) below in the “You Might Also Need” section below. All grains will come milled, unless you select unmilled base malts.
 
 
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Looking for a refreshing summer beer
Pete G on Jan 7, 2023
Wife wanted a good, fruity/citrus summer beer
Gregory J K on Jul 15, 2021
Looking for a refreshing summer beer
Pete G on Jan 7, 2023
Sounded like a nice summer beer
Adam Marshall on Mar 3, 2022
Wife wanted a good, fruity/citrus summer beer
Gregory J K on Jul 15, 2021
Num num
jeanne w on Jun 30, 2021
Had it before and liked it
John N on Jun 23, 2020
Summer time
ryan p on Mar 31, 2020
Looking for something new
William O on May 27, 2019
Easy to use
Kerry on Apr 9, 2019
Want to do a fruity peach beer what better than belgian and oranges to balance it all out.
CBR rider on Aug 9, 2018
its summer time and that means light beer, but it also means that I don't settle for Beast Ice.
chris on Jun 6, 2018
summer session beer
Howard K on Jun 5, 2018
Wanted to brew a Blood Orange receipe and since haven't done type before wanted to use a kit for the first attempt
Jonathan A on May 2, 2018
I've always wanted to brew my own Blood Orange beer, and now you have a kit!
Patrick C on Jan 18, 2018
Sounded like a nice summer beer
Adam Marshall on Mar 3, 2022
Num num
jeanne w on Jun 30, 2021
What yeast is recommended for this kit?
Dennis on Jan 14, 2018
BEST ANSWER: Near the bottom of the page you can usually find all the recommended yeasts for the kits. This list is the suggested ones we list for this kit.
WY1214 Belgian Abbey Ale Yeast - Wyeast
WY1214 Belgian Abbey Ale Yeast - Wyeast
WY3787 Belgian Trappist Ale Yeast - Wyeast
WY3787 Belgian Trappist Ale Yeast - Wyeast
Fermentis Dry Yeast - Safbrew T-58 (11.5 g)
Fermentis Dry Yeast - Safbrew T-58 (11.5 g)
WLP500 Monastery - White Labs Yeast
WLP500 Monastery - White Labs Yeast
WLP530 Abbey Ale - White Labs Yeast
WLP530 Abbey Ale - White Labs Yeast
Imperial Organic Yeast - Triple Double
Imperial Organic Yeast - Triple Double
Imperial Organic Yeast - Monastic
Imperial Organic Yeast - Monastic
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Rated 4 out of 5
I like it
Could be a little heavier with the blood orange syrup. I chose not to add it to the boil but, rather, I added it to the primary. I felt that adding it to the boil would weaken it's effect on the flavor. Overall, this is one that I will probably make again.
June 10, 2019
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over 3 years ago
Rated 4 out of 5
Great intro to all grain.
First all grain recipe ever. Do not typically like Belgians so this was an oddball for me.

Mashed at 148, fermented with wlp560 at 68ish for 3 weeks. Kegged and force carbonated to 15PSI.

Fermentation smelled like blood orange at first but quickly changed to banana bread. The first days in the keg the beer had a strong clove/bubblegum presence, but it has mellowed tremendously.

I can't say I get any blood orange from the recipe but being my first all grain it could be operator error.

I don't know if it is because this is my first all grain or not, but this may be my favorite beer I've made (from an IPA fan). Do not get me wrong, this is not my preferred style of beer, but it is so much cleaner and has so much more depth of flavor than any extract kit I've brewed.

My best description for what my brew day results taste like is a lager with some Belgian-y funk. Super light and refreshing, feels like fancy college beer.
September 18, 2017