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Dangerous Purple Wheat

Dangerous Purple Wheat

Specialty Beer • Partial Mash • 5 gal

sabolish

Blueberries add color and tang to dark and dry beer with 75% wheat malts

August 4, 2006 pm 03:13pm

4.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (Partial Mash5 gal)

  • 1 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

  • 1 lbs White Wheat Malt

    White Wheat Malt

    Weizens. Improves head retention in all beers. Contributes spicy flavor. Protein rest required.

  • .5 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils

    Belgian Cara-Pils

    Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.

  • .5 lbs Honey Malt

    Honey Malt

    Nutty honey flavor. For brown ales, Belgian wheats, bocks and many other styles.

  • .5 lbs Caramel Wheat Malt

    Caramel Wheat Malt

    For dark ales, hefeweizen, dunkelweizen, wheat bocks and double bocks.

  • 5 lbs Liquid Wheat Extract

    Liquid Wheat Extract

    Made with a preponderance of wheat malt (55%) for the production of wheat or Weiss beers. Contains no colored malts or hops.

  • 1.5 oz Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • 1 oz Willamette - 5.0 AA% whole; boiled 0 min

    Willamette

    This hop is used for finishing and dry hopping American and British style ales. Aroma is mild and pleasant ans slightly spicy

  • 3 lb blueberries - (omitted from calculations)

    blueberries

  • 1 tbsp lemon zest - (omitted from calculations)

    lemon zest

  • White Labs WLP410 Belgian Wit II Ale

    White Labs WLP410 Belgian Wit II Ale

    Less phenolic than WLP400, and more spicy. Will leave a bit more sweetness, and flocculation is higher than WLP400. Use to produce Belgian Wit, Spiced Ales, Wheat Ales, and Specialty Beers.

Notes

Mash grains at 154 deg for 45min. Bring to boil and add extracts and boiling hops. Add lemon zest as desired. After boil add aroma hops and 3 lbs (more or less if desired) cleaned and smashed fruit. This should reduce temp of wort enough to avoid setting the pectins but keep it hot enough to pasteurize the fruit. Add the whole shebang to primary without filteringand fill to about 6 gallons - the spent hops and berries will take about 1 gal of volume. Filter spent hops and fruit and rack to secondary. Dry hop with remaining 1oz whole willamette or 1/2 oz pellets. This method resulted in OG1.052 and FG 1.008. Nice and dry and crisp with some sour tang from the fruit. No one will know it's a fruit beer.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 23 - Specialty Beer

Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.054 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 13.1 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 5.4% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 40.1 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

sabolish

Unique and delicious

2006-08-31 2:13pm

Beautiful purple color. Leave a comment if you make the recipe.

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