AG#19 - Nelson's Wheat

[Monkeybrew]

I fancied a refreshing Wheat Beer, but can take or leave the German one's and don't really like the Belgian variant, so have put this brew together.

All went very well and my efficiency is up too, so happy days

Nelson's Wheat
American Wheat

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 24.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.544
Total Hops (g): 51.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.044 (°P): 11.0
Final Gravity (FG): 1.010 (°P): 2.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.50 %
Colour (SRM): 2.7 (EBC): 5.4
Bitterness (IBU): 17.0 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 75
Mash Efficiency (%): 83
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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2.272 kg Dingemans Wheat Malt (50%)
2.045 kg Muntons Pilsner (45%)
0.227 kg Weyermann Carapils (5%)

Hop Bill
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11.0 g Nelson Sauvin Leaf (11.4% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.5 g/L)
20.0 g Nelson Sauvin Leaf (11.4% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
20.0 g Nelson Sauvin Leaf (11.4% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (0.9 g/L)

Misc Bill
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7.5 g Calcium Chloride @ 90 Minutes (Mash)
0.5 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 19°C with M44 - Mangrove Jacks US West Coast

Notes
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Starting Alkalinity -142.5 CaCO3

CRS - 0.67ml/L

Treated Alkalinity - 13.5 CaCO3

Mash pH - 5.36

Recipe Generated with BrewMate


Cheers

MB

[Chug]

mmm, sounds nice I really like Nelson Sauvin, keep us posted.

[Peatbogbrewer]

Looks bang on that, i've always made European wheats. I presume this yeast will allow the Nelson to shine? I would save the expensive Nelson and bitter with something cheaper and flavourless, magnum perhaps?

[Monkeybrew]

Looks bang on that, i've always made European wheats. I presume this yeast will allow the Nelson to shine? I would save the expensive Nelson and bitter with something cheaper and flavourless, magnum perhaps?

Yeah I'm hoping that the yeast will do that.

I didn't have any Magnum, and didn't want any other bittering hop to potentially affect the Nelson flavours. I only used 11g at the end of the day, so I'm not too worried.

I'm hoping that this will be a real easy summer drinking beer that even SWMBO might like.

Cheers

MB

[Monkeybrew]

This brew looks to have finished at 1.010 and the sample is tasting very subtle on the hop front, so much to Mr Wales' glee, I've just dry hopped with my remaining Nelson Sauvin @2g/L



Cheers

MB

[WalesAles]

That`s the bloody `ammer Monkey!
Bung the buggers in!

WA

[Monkeybrew]

Currently enjoying a pint of this beer on a warm sunny evening.

I'm not sure if it's the novelty of serving this beer from my Crusader set-up, or just the fact that it's such a spot on easy drinking beer, but I'm very happy with this one.

It still isn't quite as hoppy as I wanted, but it's mildly fruity and has a lovely silky body.

I reckon a hop like Citra would go very well in this one, but I've got 100g of NZ Wai-ti in the freezer that might have to go in a mk2 version if we have an Indian Summer

Cheers

MB