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by Halyard » Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:37 pm
This is tasting magic right now, and the ladies love it. I did a partial boil for this no problem. As a wheat beer, it will be enough like a Leffe or Hoegarden to please the non-connoisseur. I guess you could halve this for your kit (and covert the later liquid addition to DME). It still has a lovely cloudiness to it and a lovely head to it that clings to the glass all the way down.
Put
500g pale spraymalt
500g wheat spraymalt (Munton's)
into
11.5 litres cold water in a 14 litre pot and bring to the boil.
t=60 min 1oz Hallertau
t=15 min 1oz Hallertau
t=5 min one 1.5kg tin of Burpaks premium grade wheat malt liquid extract
turn off the gas. that's it.
Cool it down in the bathtub and add to your FV. Top up to 20 litres using hot and cold water to keep it close to 20C.
Aerate wort, rehydrate yeart and pitch. I used Safale SO-4 as I had nothing else to hand, but there are specific yeasts like Danstar Munich or the WYeast 3068 Weihenstephen Weizen.
Warning: the unfermented wort was nasty, and I was worried, three days later it was still nasty and I was worried. But after three weeks in the primary (i got tied up) and a month in the bottles, it is great. It should be quite highly carbonated, and I was nervous about adding so much sugar to the bottling bucket but I triple checked my quantities. I have noticed that the carbonation is better now than at a month's bottle conditioning.
I am definitely making this again, but with a dedicated wheat beer yeast next time.
Halyard
