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Golden Mean

Golden Mean

American Wheat or Rye Beer • All Grain • 10 gal

xlcranium

Darker than usual American Wheats. Also, more aggressively hopped. Wonderfully balanced with honey and hop bitterness.

March 2, 2008 pm 03:26pm

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Ingredients (All Grain10 gal)

  • 8 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

  • 12 lbs Pacific Northwest Wheat

    Pacific Northwest Wheat

  • 4 lbs Caramel Wheat Malt

    Caramel Wheat Malt

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

  • 2 lbs Honey

    Honey

    Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.

  • 1.5 oz Willamette - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Willamette

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

  • 1.00 oz Willamette - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 40 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 Willamette - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 20 min

    Willamette

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

  • White Labs WLP008 East Coast Ale

    White Labs WLP008 East Coast Ale

    Our "Brewer Patriot" strain can be used to reproduce many of the American versions of classic beer styles. Similar neutral character of WLP001, but less attenuation, less accentuation of hop bitterness, increased flocculation, and a little tartness. Very

Notes

Used WhiteLabs Cry Havoc Yeast. 68degrees for 14 days.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 6 - Light Hybrid Beer

Subcategory: D - American Wheat or Rye Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.062 1.040 - 1.055
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 1.008 - 1.013
Color: 15.4 SRM 3 - 6
Alcohol: 6.4% ABV 4% - 5.5%
Bitterness: 29.7 IBU 15 - 30

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