AG#27 - Dark Wheat WB06

[WishboneBrewery]

My first Wheat Beer and a bit of a user-upper too I'm only doing 19L as the recipe is tailored around the 2kg of Wheat Malt I had left, with the Crystal Wheat & Chocolate Wheat it takes the Wheat percentage to just over 50% of the entire malt bill.
Hops are the end of a bag of Perle, pre-dry hopped Mittlefruh kept in the Freezer, and the end of a bag of Hersbrucker.
The yeast needed using up too
No intentions of using any water treatments other than to kill the Chlorine and not going to be using protafloc as I want to keep this beer cloudy.

Dark Wheat WB06

Fermentables:
Wheat Malt 2000g 45.4%
Maris Otter 2000g 45.4%
Crystal Wheat Malt 200g 4.6%
Carafa Special III 100g 2.3%
Chocolate Wheat Malt 100g 2.3%

Hops:
Perle @ 60 mins 26g
Hallertauer Mittlefruh @ 20 mins 20g
Hallertauer Hersbrucker @ 10 mins 34g

Final Volume: 19 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.014
Alcohol Content: 5% ABV
Total Liquor: 28.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 11 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 36 EBU
Colour: 96 EBC

Mash for 90mins, Boil for 60mins, pitch and attempt to keep as cool as possible in the garage (I'm going to need a fermenting fridge sometime!)

The Malts; 50:50 Maris Otter & Wheat Malt, Carafa Special 3, Chocolate Wheat malt, Crystal Wheat malt, NO Gypsum or other water treatments today:

Mash at 67c, which is probably 66c on my thermometer:

FWH:

Coming to a boil, even so it was only a 19L brew it was close to boil over, a full 23L would have needed a bit of stirring etc:

1052:

Muddy water:

Safbrew WB-06 dry sprinkled:


Another no fuss brewday, kind of had a bit of a break in the middle before starting the boil but still finished up for about 1pm
Weird not using Protafloc (or other copper finings) the total lack of any cold break material and instead just muddy looking wort, all in the sake of Cloudiness.

[WishboneBrewery]

All done a while back but had to go out
I'll get a proper pale Wheat beer on the brew list and either culture up some Schneider yeast or get some Whitelabs.

[WishboneBrewery]

Yeast was taking hold last night, frothy head this morning, Garage is at 18c FV is at 20c (Yeast is 15-24c recommended I think).
I'm really going to need a Brewing Fridge in this house... ahh the joys of the old cellar and its constant cool temperature!

[leedsbrew]

Looking good matey. Look forward to seeing how it turns out.

[WishboneBrewery]

Yeah, me too... wish it was ready already!!

[lancsSteve]

good thing is how quick they are ready though - turn around in 3 weeks is good.

I'd hihgly recommend switching to wyeast / whitelabs weihenstephan though, amazing yeast (needs a LOT of headroom though). The bavarian wheat is also fantastic but smells like an open sewer when fermenting. Thrifty shopper is good for whitelabs now inc. platinum ones.

Just finished a smiple 35% rye / 65% pale MO with bavarian wheat yeast - lovely!

Remember to over-prime though, I'm going to have to re-open all my bottles and stick another carbonation drop in as taste fine but too flat

[adm]

Nice.

+1 on the Wiehenstephan yeast for Weiss beer.

[WishboneBrewery]

yeah, I'll be trying some liquid yeast for the next one

[WishboneBrewery]

This is down to 1012, still looks to be fizzing, looks like mud, smells about right and tastes about right

Regarding the Mud, maybe a Darker Wheat Beer can actually be a clear beer, though I dare say it will settle out once bottled

[196osh]

Looks like great stuff.

[WishboneBrewery]

Bottling Update:
Aroma is very Clove.
Clove in the Flavour.
Proper nice malty Body, I might have to try this with an Ale yeast just to see how malty it can be
FG @ 1010 so a little stronger than the predicted
Can't detect any banana of Bubble gum.
Primed the batch with 100g Sugar.

[leedsbrew]

Glad it turned out well. I usually prime a 20L batch with 200g to get about 3.75 vols CO2. something like an Erdinger type carbonation Fancy a bottle swap with my latest Weisse?

[WishboneBrewery]

Maybe I should have primed with a bit more... Can do a swap if you like, once I've let this condition for a couple of weeks

[lancsSteve]

I always bung two carbonation drops per bottle in for weissens (am a slacker and now like the convenience of carbonation drops and hang the expense, had patchy experiences with bulk priming...) fiuzzy is good. Cracked all my roggenbiers and re-carbonated after a week when realised they were more ale-like than weissen...

Enjoy!

[WishboneBrewery]

I might be alright, there was visibly a lot of dissolved co2 in the beer while bottling, we'll see.