Ginger the Weisse
Specialty Beer • Partial Mash • 5 gal
Quick recipe tossed together, should be a nice summer beer.
April 26, 2011 pm 06:25pm
Ingredients (Partial Mash, 5 gal)
- 2 lbs
English 2-row Pils
English 2-row Pils
Pilsner base malt.
- .5 lbs
Crystal Malt 60°L
Crystal Malt 60°L
Sweet caramel flavor, deep golden to red color. For dark amber and brown ales.
- .5 lbs
Cargill White Wheat; Cargill Malt
Cargill White Wheat; Cargill Malt
Produced from the finest American Soft White Winter Wheat, Cargill White Wheat may be used in amounts up to 60% in creating many styles of wheat beer and in smaller amounts (5 -10%) to aid in head retention.
- 2 lbs
Dry Light Extract
Dry Light Extract
White color, mild flavor. Will produce lagers and Pilseners and can also be used to produce darker beers when used in conjunction with colored malts. Made of pale malt.
- 6 lbs
Liquid Light Extract
Liquid Light Extract
A brewer can create any beer style with this extract when used as a base in conjunction with colored malts and selected hops. Contains no colored malts or hops.
- 1 lbs
Candi Sugar Clear
Candi Sugar Clear
Smooth taste, good head retention, sweet aroma and high gravity without being apparent. Use in Belgian and holiday ales. Use clear for tripels, amber for dubbels, and dark is used in brown beer and strong golden ales.
- .25 lbs
Oats Flaked
Oats Flaked
Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.
- 3.0 oz
Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Cascade
Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.
- 1 oz
Willamette - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
Willamette
This hop is used for finishing and dry hopping American and British style ales. Aroma is mild and pleasant ans slightly spicy
- .5 oz
Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min
Cascade
Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.
- 4 oz
Ginger (fresh) - (omitted from calculations)
Ginger (fresh)
Ginger possesses an intriguing; sweet, spicy and pungent flavour. Ginger is the common name given to the underground stem (rhizome) of the perennial plant Zingiber officinale Roscoe. It is chemically classified as an essential oil with pungent principles, and has been in use as a flavoring agent worldwide for over 20 centuries.
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Wyeast 3638 Bavarian Wheat™
Wyeast 3638 Bavarian Wheat™
Top cropping hefeweisen yeast with complex flavor and aroma. Balance of banana and bubble gum esters with lichi and apple/plum esters and cloveness.
Notes
Ginger partially skinned then sliced into discs and placed into malt or cheese cloth bag, added to boil approx 20-15 before flame-out.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 23 - Specialty Beer
Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.084 | 1.026 - 1.120 | |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.016 | 0.995 - 1.035 | |
| Color: | 11.7 SRM | 1 - 50 | |
| Alcohol: | 9.0% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 82.2 IBU | 0 - 100 |
