Wheat Beer

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:28 am

My last experience of brewing a wheat beer was so horrific I haven't done one since. That was in the last century. But today is the day to revisit it. The mash is 50:50 wheat/lager malt with a smidgen of melanoidin to try and fake that decoction mash flavour.

So far it's mashed in and I've managed to get the RIMS to recirculate OK - after a few 'sticky' moments.....

tubby_shaw · Post by **tubby_shaw** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:38 am

Good luck Steve

I have made a few wheat beers now and as you no doubt encountered anything over 50% wheat without adding something to coarsen the mash results in either a stuck mash or a very slow run off

Lets hope the RIMS helps

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Mon May 07, 2007 3:39 pm

How much Melanoidin malt are you putting in?

I am planning to do one this week and I was going to add 1 -1.5 pounds of Munich malt instead of some pale malt.

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:46 pm

I put 2% Melanoidin in - not much.

2.62kg Lager Malt
2.62kg Wheat Malt
110g Melanoidin Malt

30g Tettnang (4.3%)

Anyway, actually today was pretty painless. After a few tricky moments getting the RIMS to start up and recirculate it was all easy. There was A LOT of cold break after chilling.

New things for today.

1. Tried Brewferm's Wheat Yeast
2. Tried my new in-line wort aerator - from now on this shall be called the froth-o-matic as it turns 5 gallons of wort into 10 gallons of foam

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It's a combination of a small air compressor, a filter, one of these and some fittings.

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:43 pm

Glad to hear all went well SF

I want to do 7's Hefe but the pain of my bottom is still to vivid

Wez · Post by **Wez** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:08 pm

Vossy1 wrote:the pain of my bottom is still to vivid

Vossy, can we stick to the 'straight and narrow' please

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:17 pm

Vossy, can we stick to the 'straight and narrow' please

Whatever do you mean

Wez · Post by **Wez** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:32 pm

I was just worried that we might be getting sucked off down the wrong alley

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:49 pm

I see, I missed the word false before bottom...my apologies

Wez · Post by **Wez** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:50 pm

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:07 am

Didn't this thread start off being about beer?

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:03 am

Just to bring this back onto some semblance of topic again

, Steve did you use oat hulls when doing this?

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:19 am

Actually, despite what I said in a reply last week, I didn't. I had a pretty good crush on the grain so there wasn't much flour (Barley Crusher default setting) so once the RIMS got going the mash was no harder than a normal beer. I did use a fairly large mash volume 3.5L/kg

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:20 pm

Thats heartening to hear that you had no probs even without the oat hulls. Im going to go ahead and give it a whirl at 56% wheat and see what happens

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I had looked into getting the oat husks but the postage alone would have been Ã‚Â£4 making it not so attractive (maybe on the next order i'll get some).
Had a chat with John from H&G and he thought i might get away without it sticking by using a thin mash and also with the coarse crush of the malt.

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:09 pm

Wez wrote:getting sucked off down the wrong alley

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