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wheelhousebrewing:
I'm brewing an oatmeal stout but decided to get weird and orange it up! I put in some thin peels 15 mins of boiling.  Tasting the pre-ferm sample, maybe got a little too bitter (either time or quantity maybe was too much).  I couldn't detect much aroma though.  I planned to toss in some pastuerized/peeled/seeded fruity bits of orange in my secondary to give a bit more flavor/aroma.  Good or bad idea?  Not sure what to expect: I don't want unintentional acids wrecking the flavor profile or adding more bitterness.

Thanks,
Alex

mtnrockhopper:
How much did you add?  I would wait until fermentation is over to decide. I find unfermented malt can cover a lot.

Also, you can make an extract by soaking more peels in a little vodka. This can be added at bottling to taste. I like to use 1 cup of vodka because that equals ~1 tsp / 12oz bottle (assuming a 5 gal batch).  Then at bottling I add 1/2 tsp to 6oz beer and taste. Adjust the dose accordingly and add the rest to the full batch.

mabrungard:
Hopped wort is always far more bitter than the finished beer.  Yeast takes a lot of the bittering out.  Don't worry about the bittering based on a wort sample. 

The orange nuances should be interesting.  There are all kinds of chocolate and orange treats in the world.  This could work.

goschman:
Was the pith on the peels when you added them? I have always been advised to stay away from that when adding to the boil. I use orange zest regularly and add with 5 minutes remaining in the boil.

I am curious as to what other have to say about adding actual orange fruit to the fermenter. I have wanted to do this but had the same fear as you. I added juice at the end of a boil once and the beer turned sour after some time though I am not sure if it had to do with this or not.

beerrat:
I cheated a bit by adding orange teas at bottling to taste.  Twinings honeybush, mandarin & orange and Tazo wild sweet orange.  I really wanted the tea flavors to come out, so may have been too much as folk either loved or hated it.

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