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Summer Wheat

This is an attempt to make a little more robust, less fruity flavored wheat beer by bumping up the OG a bit and using a CA ale yeast. The hops should be at the high end of the scale for a wheat as well to balance out the additional wheat maltiness.

Brewer: Doug Kraus Email: doug.kraus@mac.com
Beer: Summer Wheat Style: American Wheat
Type: Extract w/grain Size: 5 gallons
Color:
4 HCU (~4 SRM)
Bitterness: 19 IBU
OG: 1.054 FG: 1.017
Alcohol: 4.8% v/v (3.8% w/w)
Water: Using city tap water and adding 1 tsp calcium carbonate. I did not leave this out overnight as I usually do. I used 4 gal in the brew kettle, another gal for mash and another gal for sparge.
Grain: 8 oz. Dextrine malt (Cara-Pils)
8 oz. Flaked wheat
Steep: I put the grains in a grain bag and into a pot of 1 gallon of water. i bring this to 150 along with the pot of sparge water then into an oven to keep them at about 150 for an hour. I put grain bag into a collander and dump steep water into main kettle and slowly pour sparge water over grains.
Boil: 60 minutes SG 1.054 5 gallons
1 lb. Light malt extract
6 lb. Wheat extract
Irish Moss added at 15 minutes (45 minutes into boil).
Hops: .5 oz. Tettnanger (4.4% AA, 60 min.)
.5 oz. Tettnanger (4.4% AA, 45 min.)
.5 oz. Hallertauer (3.9% AA, 15 min.)
.5 oz. Hallertauer (aroma)
Yeast: White Labs WLP051 California Ale Yeast
Log: Brewed on the 4th of July. Pitched yeast at 77 degrees. Basement is cooler than I thought and this fermented at 62 degrees. Transferred to secondary on 7/18 and the gravity is now down to 1.017-1.018. I am hoping to get it down to 1.016, but we'll see in a week.
Carbonation: I will keg to 5 gallon soda keg and carbonate with CO2.
Tasting: TBD. I will revise once it is ready to drink.

Recipe posted 07/22/09.