All Time Favourite AG Recipe?

[OhDannyBoy!]

Hi all,

Just wondering if folks would be willing to share their all time favourite recipe, or maybe a couple if you've got a few!

Could be a great post for inspiration!

Cheers, Dan.

[Cobnut]

My most regular brew is a Bavarian wheat beer (hefeweizen) named “Hazelweiss” after my wife of 31 years.

It has ben through a few different variants, but essentially:

60% wheat malt (I generally use Crisps)
40% lager/pilsner malt (although I’ve used English pale when short of lager malt, and the difference is not huge)

OG 1050
I usually mash for 60 mins at 65C and mash out at 75C for 10 mins

Early versions used - would you believe - Citra hops, but I’ve gone more traditional with recent versions and used Hallertauer Mittelfrüh. Recent versions have been c. 12 IBU at 60 mins and a further 2 IBU at 10 mins and that seems to work well. Don’t go above c. 18 IBU total at this gravity.

I have also tried various weissbier yeasts - wet and dry - but find that Mangrove Jacks M20 Bavarian Wheat beer yeast works best. Ferment at 17C for 5 days and then raise temp to 22/23C for a further couple of days and then bottle with 8g/L table sugar to give plenty of carbonation.

My wife loves it as do several of my friends. And it has won me a number of competition prizes, including a couple of Best of Show awards.

I would also suggest that you adjust your liquor to 20-30 ppm alkalinity as CaCo3.

Hope it works out for you.

[MashBag]

I have a simple cascade smash.

4 kg pale/500g wheat malt
65c 60m
45 min boil.
30g @-15
40g @-30 with irish moss
50g @85c for 30m

Notty at 19c

Marvellous drinking summer ale

[micmacmoc]

Graham Wheeler’s Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild or his Exmoor Gold. You couldn't get two beers much further apart but both magic!
GW you are much missed and well remembered!

[IPA]

Graham Wheeler’s Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild or his Exmoor Gold. You couldn't get two beers much further apart but both magic!
GW you are much missed and well remembered!

Here he is

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