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American Wheatie

American Wheatie

American Wheat or Rye Beer • All Grain • 6 gal

Matt23

slightly tart and very refreshing, and the wheat and rye give a nice grainy character. when the beer is young, the tartness is fairly strong but it will mellow quite nicely after a week or so.

November 29, 2008 pm 12:19pm

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Ingredients (All Grain6 gal)

  • 4 lbs American 6-row Pale

    American 6-row Pale

    Tends to increase lautering efficiency due to a stiffer husk. May be used as the base malt for any beer style. The enzymes in all varieties of the current crop are sufficient to support high percentages of specialty malts and adjuncts.

  • 5 lbs Midwest Wheat Malt

    Midwest Wheat Malt

    Light flavor and creamy head. For American weizenbier, weissbier and dunkelweiss.

  • 2 lbs Rye Malt

    Rye Malt

    Often used in German Ales and specialty beers

  • .75 oz Centennial - 10.0 AA% pellets; boiled 50 min

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • .75 oz Willamette - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    Willamette

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

  • Wyeast 1010 American Wheat™

    Wyeast 1010 American Wheat™

    A dry fermenting, true top cropping yeast which produces a dry, slightly tart, crisp beer, in American hefeweisen style.

Notes

For hops, I used an abbreviated version of Jamil's as used in his "Kent's Hollow Leg" recipe. Use a large fermentation vessel for this; all the protein in the wort plus this yeast = a lot of bubbling and potential blowoff. If you are milling the malt, you may have to adjust your rollers a bit since the wheat and rye berries run a bit smaller than the barley malt kernels.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 6 - Light Hybrid Beer

Subcategory: D - American Wheat or Rye Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.047 1.040 - 1.055
Terminal Gravity: 1.011 1.008 - 1.013
Color: 4.4 SRM 3 - 6
Alcohol: 4.7% ABV 4% - 5.5%
Bitterness: 25.6 IBU 15 - 30

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