American Wheat Beer

[Barley Water]

This weekend being 4th of July weekend (you know, the holiday where we celebrate kicking out the British) I am going to try brewing an American wheat beer. Interestingly, in over two decades doing this hobby, I have never made one although I have extensive experience with German wheat beer. Anyway, my plan is to use about 70% wheat and probably use raw wheat for a pound or two which I plan to do a ceral mash on. Does anybody out there have any experience milling raw wheat? Absent any good ideas, I figure to run the stuff through my Barley Crusher then dump that into a blender and chop the hell out of it before doing the ceral mash. The other thing I plan to do a little differently is use a lager yeast which is currently fermenting a Mexicanized Vienna lager (Wyeast 2206). That should keep the yeast derived flavors down and let the wheat flavor come to the fore, if things work out correctly. Does anybody have any good ideas as far as this project is concerned, is there anything I am not thinking of? Ultimately, I would like to try a Wit with the ceral mash but I have the lager yeast ready to go so I thought I would just keep going with the lagers (plus, I want to brew an Octoberfest next so I can just keep the yeast working).

[Hamish]

This weekend being 4th of July weekend (you know, the holiday where we celebrate kicking out the British)

And here's me thinking it was when we decided to let you govern yourselves.