Hefeweizen 9 5 07

[oblivious]

Hi all,

I am going to give this hefeweizen a go to night.

Since I am not doing a decoction mash, I have seen that the addition of some Munich/ Melanoidin malt can help make up for it, here goes nothing!


19 litres



5.75 lb’s Wheat malt

3.75 lb’s Pale malt

1.5 lb’s Munich malt

0.22 (3.5oz) Melanoidin malt

0.17 (2.75 oz) Sauer malt


Mash at 67c for an hour,


Hops, Hallertauer 1.5 oz (2.5 AA%) for around 16 IBU’s


Yeast, a 2 litre starter of WLP300, 48 hours old


O.G around 1.060, calculate for 70% efficiency

[tubby_shaw]

Good luck with it oblivious
It'll be interesting to know if you hit your estimated efficiency, mine allways takes a hit when making wheat beer

[delboy]

That looks like its going to be a cracker

[oblivious]

Good luck with it oblivious
It'll be interesting to know if you hit your estimated efficiency, mine allways takes a hit when making wheat beer

Intresting, do you think its somthing to do with having less husk material in the mash?

[oblivious]

Here are some pic's of my brew evening, I had to start the mash and boil in the shed as it was raining, but move out as soon as it stopped.

I apologies about the quality of some of the photos as they were taken on my photo and there was poor light with the rain!


The Mash


Batch sparging




First running's




The Boil




I slightly overshot my mash/sparge volumes and had less boil off than anticipated, which ended up giving me 23liters instead of 19 liters with an O.G of 1.053

[oblivious]

Less than 24 hours in and there’s a good level of krausen formed!

[Bigster]

good stuff oblivious - that boil looks like it wanted to get out and over the edge!

[oblivious]

Those wheat beer yeast are very active fellas

[Frothy]

Absolutely brilliant how much did you pitch/ aerate etc. to get it to go like that?

Frothy

[oblivious]

Absolutely brilliant how much did you pitch/ aerate etc. to get it to go like that?

Frothy

It was a 2l starter that was 48 hours old; I aerated/ filtered the wort by pouring it when cool through a sanitised nylon sieve.

[oblivious]

Just keged this bad boy to nite, hopefuly some nice drinking in a few weeks

[mysterio]

Excellent! I'm making a Weisse in a couple of days hopefully..

[oblivious]

Here is a pic of my Hefe after only three days in the bottle! Most of it of it went into my corny but I bottle two of them.

[mysterio]

Looks GREAT! How does it taste? Nice Aventinus glass

[oblivious]

Had a nice banana flavour, but it a little green still a week or so and it should be good.

I saved the yeast slurry and let it settle out in the fridge. When I was aliquoting it out I got a strong clove aroma, I wonder if it had anything to do with temp of the fridge?