# 🍺 Top-down Brew: Hoegaarden Clone

Enter the recipe data og: 1.049 m: Pilsner malt, 42.5, 1.5, 80 m: Flaked wheat, 50, 2, 78 m: Aromatic malt, 5, 23, 78 m: Flaked oats, 2.5, 1, 72 ibu: 14 h: East Kent Goldings, 74, 4, 60 h: Saaz, 26, 4, 15 lb: Coriander seed (crushed), .18 lb: Curacao orange peel (dry), .37 y: ale

Suggestions for converting this recipe to a malt extract form:

- Delete all of the malt lines (the ones that start with m:).
- For liquid malt extract, add s: Liquid wheat malt extract, 100, 5, 76
- For dry malt extract, add s: Dry wheat malt extract, 100, 3.5, 96

For a version with more oats and no aromatic malt, replace the m: lines with the following:

    m: Pilsner malt, 39.5, 1.5, 80
    m: Malted wheat, 40.6, 2, 83
    m: Flaked wheat, 10.4, 2, 78
    m: Flaked oats, 9.5, 1, 72

Target volume

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Mash Efficiency

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## Results

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## Notes

This recipe is a mash-up of two clone recipes. The grain bill is from Beer Captured, p. 53. The "all-grain method" grain bill was revised based upon the critical helpful hint: "The brewery uses 50% flaked wheat in Hoegaarden White." The OG, hops, and spices were based upon a Brew Your Own recipe.

If flaked wheat is not available, other forms of wheat could be used. Unmalted wheat is preferred over malted wheat. The use wheat forms other than flaked wheat is more demanding because it can be a gummy mash. Non-flaked wheat may require a protein rest, cereal mash, rice hulls, or other strategies to prevent stuck mashes.

The extract version of using wheat malt extract won't turn out exactly the same as the all-grain recipe. The reason why is that most wheat malt extracts are based on malted wheat rather than unmalted wheat. This is the trade-off of choosing the convenience and simplicity of extract brewing over an exact duplication.

The recommended yeast strains are specifically for the Belgian witbier style: Wyeast 3944, White Labs WLP400, or Mangrove Jack M21.

## Sources

Hoegaarden Original White Ale Clone (2000, November). Brew Your Own

Szamatulski, T. & Szamatulski, M. (2001). Beer Captured: Homebrew Recipes for 150 World-Class Beers. Maltose Press, p. 53

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