
Wheat Beer - All Grain
American Wheat or Rye Beer • All Grain • 5 gal
This is a traditional German wheat beer. This beer has few bittering hops. Hefeweizens will have suspended yeasts which make the beer cloudy and produce bread-like "full bodied" flavors.
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Ingredients (All Grain, 5 gal)
- 8.5 lbs
English Wheat Malt
English Wheat Malt
Light flavor, creamy head. For wheat beers, stouts, doppelbocks and alt beers.
- .5 lbs
American 2-row
American 2-row
Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt
- .25 oz
Perle - 8.2 AA% pellets; boiled 90 min
Perle
Used mainly for its minty bittering and good green hop aromas in all non-pilsener lagersand wheats. Aroma is pleasant and slightly spicy
- .5 oz
Hallertau - 4.5 AA% pellets; boiled 10 min
Hallertau
Good for all around bittering and finishing stock ales, Belgian ales, and continental style lagers. Aroma is mild, pleasant and flowery.
- .5 oz
Hallertau - 4.5 AA% pellets; boiled 2 min
Hallertau
Good for all around bittering and finishing stock ales, Belgian ales, and continental style lagers. Aroma is mild, pleasant and flowery.
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White Labs WLP320 American Hefeweizen Ale
White Labs WLP320 American Hefeweizen Ale
This yeast is used to produce the Oregon style American Hefeweizen. Unlike WLP300, this yeast produces a very slight amount of the banana and clove notes. It produces some sulfur, but is otherwise a clean fermenting yeast, which does not flocculate well,
Style (BJCP)
Category: 6 - Light Hybrid Beer
Subcategory: D - American Wheat or Rye Beer
Range for this Style | |||
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Original Gravity: | 1.046 | 1.040 - 1.055 | ![]() |
Terminal Gravity: | 1.011 | 1.008 - 1.013 | ![]() |
Color: | 4.0 SRM | 3 - 6 | ![]() |
Alcohol: | 4.5% ABV | 4% - 5.5% | ![]() |
Bitterness: | 13.6 IBU | 15 - 30 | ![]() |