Andy's Wheat Cherry Ale
Specialty Beer • Extract • 5 gal
Steep the grains for 30 min. Bring to boil and add extract and honey. Hops schedual: Saaz - 60 min. Fuggles - 15 min. Add cheeries during secondary racking. Produces a very cherry tasting, dark red beer.
October 1, 2006 pm 03:14pm
Ingredients (Extract, 5 gal)
- 1.5 lbs
Crystal Malt 90°L
Crystal Malt 90°L
Body and Richness. Distictive Nutty flavor and or sweet, smooth caramel flavor and a red to deep red color. For porters, old ales.
- 3 lbs
Dry Wheat; Muntons
Dry Wheat; Muntons
Made with a preponderance of wheat malt (55%) for the production of wheat or Weiss beers. Contains no colored malts or hops.
- 6 lbs
Honey
Honey
Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.
- 0.5 oz
Czech Saaz - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Czech Saaz
Very mild. 'Noble'.
- 0.5 oz
Fuggle - 4.8 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
Fuggle
Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.
- 4.5 lb
pureed dark cheeries - (omitted from calculations)
pureed dark cheeries
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Wyeast 1056 American Ale™
Wyeast 1056 American Ale™
Used commercially for several classic American ales. This strain ferments dry, finishes soft, smooth and dean, and is very well balanced.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 23 - Specialty Beer
Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.071 | 1.026 - 1.120 | |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.014 | 0.995 - 1.035 | |
| Color: | 17.2 SRM | 1 - 50 | |
| Alcohol: | 7.5% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 11.9 IBU | 0 - 100 |
