- Recipe Type
- All Grain
- Yeast
- us-05 slurry
- Yeast Starter
- no
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 5.0
- Original Gravity
- 1.055
- Final Gravity
- 1.013
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 60
- IBU
- 34
- Color
- 8
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 21
- Tasting Notes
- clean balanced tasty ale. Slight sweetnes from the honey malt.
So, SWMBO is coming around to pale ales and American style wheats. Before she would not touch a beer unless it had fruit flavor in it.:smack: So, she has opened her taste buds up to SN, burning river,firestone... She asked if I can make something along the lines of these but with the wheat beer flavor. I said OK. So FWIW I've made 4 different batches trying to dial in a taste profile she likes. With some luck the last batch I made was "much better than sierra nevada" in her own words. I took that as a compliment. Thought I would share it. Taste is hop citrus and slightly sweet from the crystal and honey matls. The soft white wheat lends a nice slight sourness to the brew. Not real malty, but seems to be well balanced. I am not good at descriptions of the flavors, so please bear with me.
Ingredients:
5 Gallon batch
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5.00 lb Pale Ale Malt (2 Row) US (4.0 SRM)
5.00 lb Soft white wheat (2.0 SRM)
0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM)
0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)
0.50 lb Honey malt (23.0SRM)
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50%] (60 min)
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50%] (30 min)
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50%] (1 min)
0.50 oz citra [14.0%] (1 min)
0.50 oz centennial [10.0%] (1 min)
0.50 oz citra [14.0%] (DH 7 days)
0.50 oz El Dorado [15.0%] (DH 7 days)
mash 1.25 qt/lb @ 152 for 60 min.
vorlouf and fly sparge to collect 7 gallons
Boil 60 min
chill to 65
pitch Us-05 slurry from previous batch
Ferment @ 62 until gravity is stable. I let it go 18 days.
Dry hop 7 days
cold crash and hit with gelatin for a few days. clears out nicely.
keg and force carb to 2.7 volume.
Enjoy!
OG 1.055
FG 1.013
34 IBU
8 SRM
5.5% ABV
Ingredients:
5 Gallon batch
------------
5.00 lb Pale Ale Malt (2 Row) US (4.0 SRM)
5.00 lb Soft white wheat (2.0 SRM)
0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM)
0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)
0.50 lb Honey malt (23.0SRM)
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50%] (60 min)
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50%] (30 min)
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50%] (1 min)
0.50 oz citra [14.0%] (1 min)
0.50 oz centennial [10.0%] (1 min)
0.50 oz citra [14.0%] (DH 7 days)
0.50 oz El Dorado [15.0%] (DH 7 days)
mash 1.25 qt/lb @ 152 for 60 min.
vorlouf and fly sparge to collect 7 gallons
Boil 60 min
chill to 65
pitch Us-05 slurry from previous batch
Ferment @ 62 until gravity is stable. I let it go 18 days.
Dry hop 7 days
cold crash and hit with gelatin for a few days. clears out nicely.
keg and force carb to 2.7 volume.
Enjoy!
OG 1.055
FG 1.013
34 IBU
8 SRM
5.5% ABV