The wheat frontier

[Chipman]

I'm planning on brewing up an AG dunkelweizen this weekend and I have a few questions about using wheat malt.

How fine a crush works well with wheat? Is it ok to pulverize it into flour as it's huskless anyway? I plan on using a generous amount of rice hulls so I hope the runoff goes well.

Also, I batch sparge. I vorlauf until the wort is mostly clear, and runoff until it starts getting cloudy again. I add some Whirlfloc bits to the boil too and try to keep a fair amount of the cold break out of the ferm tank.

(If you think either of these matter to begin with) do you think either of them will matter with a going to be cloudy anyway wheat?

Any other hints / tips you can throw my way for dealing with wheat?

Thanks!

 

[Clonefarmer]

You don't want to pulverize the wheat malt. Just crush it the same as you do with barley malt. Rice hulls are a good idea to help avoid stuck mash/sparge.

Vorlauf as normal.

Final tip: Enjoy!

 

[DustinHickey]

Agree with Clonefarmer... Only thing I do different from regular ales is step mash isntead of single infusion if using flaked wheat or rye in your recipie...