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Just got home from work yesterday for my month off and paid a visit to the Hop & Grape this morning.

I made up a starter this afternoon and I'll be brewing this tomorrow.


Ingredients
2.90 kg Wheat Malt,
1.70 kg Smoked Malt
17.00 gm Pearle [8.00 %] (90 min) Hops 16.1 IBU
1 Pkgs Hefeweizen Ale (White Labs #WLP300) Yeast-Wheat

Estimated Original Gravity: 1.050
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 4.85 %

I'll try to add photo's of tomorrows brewday as I go.

Roger.

Sounds good, it reminds me that I need to do a wheat beer soonish. I wonder how the yeast and smoked malt will meld in the finished product?

TC2642 wrote: I wonder how the yeast and smoked malt will meld in the finished product?

Cheers, I'm wondering that too,,,

But I'm up and running now so here's the first pics.



Ingredients. Not much and it's a bit unusual/worrying using so small a quantity of hops. No danger of the hop strainer clogging this time though...... I hope.



Doughed in.



Time to post the pics here and have a cuppa.

Looking good matey! I wanted to try a smoked weisse at skipton beer fest but I....erm....over did it a bit on the ales so didn't get chance lol

leedsbrew wrote:Looking good matey! I wanted to try a smoked weisse at skipton beer fest but I....erm....over did it a bit on the ales so didn't get chance lol

A familiar story.... I've never tasted a smoked weizen before either, there's nowt like jumping in unprepared with both size 9's

Just the cleaning and clearing up left to do now (Worst bit of any brewday).



My method of fly sparging, primitive I know but it works for me.



Run off.




Boil pics.



Starter pitched.

All in all a nice slow deliberate brew day with only one hiccup. I have no idea where I have misplaced my hydrometer so I am trusting my gravities are what I was aimng for

Roger.

Just popped out to the garage to see how fermentation was going and this what met my eyes








Never had one as "Icelandic" as this before...... smells great though

Roger.

Yep, that's a wheat beer all right

mysterio wrote:Yep, that's a wheat beer all right

Lol, The smell is gorgeous too... like BBQ'ed banana.