Brew Day 21/5/07 - Helles Weissbier

[mysterio]

Mashing this one at the moment. It's a scaled down recipe from a brewery in Munich. Had to use two mash tuns to fit all the grain in

Helles Weißbier
Bavarian Weizen (Weissbier)

Type: All Grain
Date: 19/05/2007
Batch Size: 11.00 gal
Brewer: Geoff
Boil Size: 12.59 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.0

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.55 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (3.9 EBC) Grain 55.6 %
2.78 kg Vienna Malt (6.9 EBC) Grain 27.8 %
1.39 kg Pilsner (2 Row) UK (2.0 EBC) Grain 13.9 %
0.28 kg Caramunich Malt (110.3 EBC) Grain 2.8 %
90.00 gm Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [3.80%] (60 min) Hops 17.7 IBU
1.00 tbsp Ph 5.2 Stabiliser (Mash 90.0 min) Misc

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.052 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.014 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.0 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.6 %
Bitterness: 17.7 IBU Calories: 43 cal/pint
Est Color: 11.8 EBC Color: Color

Mash Profile

Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Step Add 25.98 L of water at 73.5 C 67.0 C 90 min

[Vossy1]

Have a great brewday mysterio

[delboy]

Looks familiar
Have a good one

[oblivious]

Looks, I kike the idea if Vienna, I used some Munich in might and turned out nice, I may have missed on your post, but what yeast are you using?

[mysterio]

Whoops, using WLP300 Hefeweizen in a 3L starter.

[Frothy]

looks tasty, quite a sweet & relatively malty beer for a weisse?

Frothy

[BarryNL]

Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.0 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.6 %

Disaster!!

[Vossy1]

Disaster!!

[mysterio]

This is making such a mess of my floor. I left a good foot and a half of headspace, but i've had to mop up sludge 3 times today already

[delboy]

Mine was a 5 gallon batch in a 10 gallon bin so thank goodness for that.
What temp have you got this fermenting at mysterio?

[oblivious]

WLP300 sure like to get around !

Do you intent to save some of the yeast?

[mysterio]

I've got ambient at about 17C but judging by the warmth of the fermenter it could be about 20C in there. I don't like it to get much higher than that personally.

I've got big plans for this yeast! 5 gallons will be getting left as a hefeweizen, the other 5 gallons is getting filtered to make a kristalweizen, and i'm going to re-use the yeast to make a weizenbock in the style of Schneider Aventinus.

[steve_flack]

This is making such a mess of my floor. I left a good foot and a half of headspace, but i've had to mop up sludge 3 times today already

There's this stuff called antifoam....

http://www.brupaks.co.uk/antifoam.htm

Works for me. Did a Weissbier 20L in a 23L fermenter....didn't lose a drop.

[oblivious]

I've got ambient at about 17C but judging by the warmth of the fermenter it could be about 20C in there. I don't like it to get much higher than that personally.

I've got big plans for this yeast! 5 gallons will be getting left as a hefeweizen, the other 5 gallons is getting filtered to make a kristalweizen, and i'm going to re-use the yeast to make a weizenbock in the style of Schneider Aventinus.

Oh sweet!

[mysterio]

This is making such a mess of my floor. I left a good foot and a half of headspace, but i've had to mop up sludge 3 times today already

There's this stuff called antifoam....

http://www.brupaks.co.uk/antifoam.htm

Works for me. Did a Weissbier 20L in a 23L fermenter....didn't lose a drop.

I've always wondered, does this stuff kill the beer foam/head as well?