The Problem With Belgians...

The Belgian beer was made following the directions on the instructions sheet packaged with the Buenes Diaz Witbier kit from the Wine and Hop shop. However, several key elements of the process were left off of the instructions and they ultimately caused several problems.
By now, our sanitation process was thorough and we experienced no direct problems associated with poor cleaning practices. However, our problems came from some of the brewing basics we had not learned. Firstly, we were unaware that we were supposed to grind the coriander supplied with the kit prior to adding it to the wort. Much of the coriander flavor, then, never made it into the beer.

More importantly, though, was that by this point in time we did not know that we had to strain the contents of the wort before putting it into the fermenter! Thus, the wort entered the fermenter with wheat husks from the adjunct grains, and all of the coriander and orange peel sat with the beer in the fermenter for about a week before it was siphoned into the secondary fermenter.
Here, you can see the chunks of orange peel floating around in the fermenter

These reasons are why we believe the flavor is off in the Lumiere D'oranges beer we turned in for the assignment were less-than-desirable.