Blanche de Chambly Brew Day

A few days ago I brewed the Blanche de Chambly clone, the recipe can be found here. It went well and being a partial mash it only took a few hours to do. Here are some photos I took along the way:

Here is the wort after a 10min boil and after the only hop addition. It was boiled for an addition 30mins after that. The white foam is hot break which occurs after the wort has come to a full boil.

After the boil I tossed in the coriander, ginger & bitter orange peel and let it steep for 10mins. The pot then went into an ice bath to cool to pitching temperature of 24c(75f).

With the wort cooled I took a gravity sample to test the sugar levels. It came out at 1.052, with the recipe projecting 1.049 it was within range.

Here it is after pitching the yeast. I separated it between two carboys because I have read wheat beers can have a large krausen which would make it prone to blow offs. In the end it was unnecessary as the krausen only came up about an inch. Better safe then sorry I guess. At first the beer seemed quite dark for a witbier. It has since lightened up after settling out.

Up next I will show photos of the primary fermentation and racking the beer into a secondary carboy.