Blue Moon Clone All Grain Recipe

I've brewed >10 of these 5 gallon all grain recipes. It's a great base recipe for a wheat beer that you can modify to suit your tastes. If you are looking for a true Blue Moon clone I would not use a whit-beer or Belgian style yeast. There is an interesting article on homebrewtalk where a former brewmaster for Coors discussed it's creation at the Sandlot Brewery. They purposely used a chico strain yeast to get a clean ferment without the traditional whit estery taste. If you like that style go for it. I've been using a chico (Safale US-05) strain with excellent success as it has a broad appeal when I'm serving guests in my home, plus its dry and requires no starter and 1pkg=plenty to do a 5 gal batch *I was concerned the coriander qty seemed a bit high. It's not. *I do add additional orange marmalade (net is 1.5x what recipe calls for) to get the ratio of Orange/Coriander to be what I like *Candi Sugar crystals - used to be a pain in the backside trying to dissolve. 5-10 mins before boil ends use some of the boiling wort in a bowl or put candi in muslin bag and clip to pot. Dissolves so much easier *If you care about clarity - I used to filter which wasted beer, CO2 and was messy. Now I use a whirlfloc tablet or irish moss does help near end of boil and unflavored gelatin when I rack to keg. Beer is crystal clear. So if you like wheat beer give this a go. This is permanently on tap at my house for a reason!

First of all, the price is hard to beat for an all grain kit. I have been brewing for some time. I have good equipment (most of it came from AIH), but I found this brew to be overwhelming with the orange marmalade and underwhelming with the Belgian spice additions. It had the right color, it was slightly cloudy, the IBU's were right, but it was missing something. It could have been something I did as well, I found the instructions to be a little confusing.

Got this kit so I could compare it to the original and I was craving a Wheat beer. Truth be told, I'm not even that big of a fan of Blue Moon. However, this came out perfect, and as others have said, tastes better than the real thing. Great color, wonderful aroma, and super smooth mouthfeel. I will definitely be getting this again. Kudos to the person who put this recipe together.

I used the WL 400 Belgian Wit, started at 68 deg. w/ good results.

Made this and fermented for 17 days. Kegged and I must say as a Blue Moon fan, this is a great recipe! Even my friends have commented it might be better than the original! I plan to keep this baby on tap at all times!

Great. Came out super. I like it better than the store brew. Everyone who tried it also loves it.

I added more marmalade, probably doubling the amount. It is fantastic, GF loves it so much I'm here to order 2 more kits. It's going to go fast.

My son and I have tried a number of the clone kits and by far the best of the bunch is the Blue Moon clone. It's better than the original. I'll be reordering this kit.

This company's customer service is amazing. Highly recommend this kit as well. Easy so long as you have a little bit of brewing experience.

Mine came out better than blue moon, with lots of raves from friends. I did add some fresh grated orange peel, then squeezed the peeled orange and threw in at last few mins of boil. Same wheat, hazy color with a nice white head. Taste of blue moon with lots of extra orange. Will brew again, maybe with more hops.