One For My Lad (Recipe wanted)

[Uncle Joshua]

Last year I brewed beer for my lad as an Xmas gift and was thinking of doing the same again....

A few weeks ago he mentioned that he liked Blue Moon (I made a thread) So, I'm after a witbier recipie that I can brew for him that will be better than the bottle he had?

In the last thread a member mentioned a recipe but said to mash at two temps, I can't do that.

[Cozzyb]

I wouldn't get to strung up on these multi temps people go on about all the time, 1. Some breweries inc good ones, just do a single infusion at 66c without issue, 2. These people are just trying to stick to 'original authentic recipes', are you entering this into a brew competition, no, then don't worry.

So recipes, depends what you want to do, I spent the last week looking at Wheat Recipes as I intend to make one also.

here is one
Hefeweizen
60% Pilsner Malt (lager is cheaper, and I hear it works fine)
40% Wheat Malt

If you want to shoot for actual guidelines, OG would be 1.044 - 1.052 and an IBU of 8-15 so you will only be adding one hop at boil, something German is a good idea, like Hallertauer etc.
Yeast seems to be key, get a Wheat Yeast no matter what, if you are the kind of guy who spends on good yeast, buy an authentic German Wheat Yeast.
Ferment closer to lager temps then Ale, i.e. 16c.

And here is an American Wheat recipe similar to Blue Moon from Avery Brewery

50% Pale Malt
50% Wheat Malt
they mention hopping 60 mins and 30 mins, but very low IBU again, again I would aim for 15 IBU.

After boil add (for 5 gallon)

10g Corriander
10g Orange Peel (maybe bump this up, as it seems low to me)

again Wheat yeast, ferment at 18c for 75% of time and then let it get warm (their instructions)

Hope this helps

[Cozzyb]

Worth noting, BeerSmith if you don't have it, is amazing for this sort of thing, as it gives you guidelines and tells you IBUs etc. Also gives you the % of total grist which helps if someone gives you a recipe in %