donald_trub
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Hi guys,
I'm up to about my 5th batch of homebrew, usually using extracts and some steeped grain. This time I've gone for a honey wheat beer recipe I found on the net. The ingredients were listed as follows (for a 20 litre batch):
226.8 g Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (39.4 EBC)
1.36 k Extra Light Dry Extract (5.9 EBC)
1.36 k Wheat Dry Extract (15.8 EBC)
42.5 g Northern Brewer [8.0%] - Boil 45 min
1.50 lbs Honey (Boil 45 min)
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15 min)
28.3 g Cascade [4.3%] - Boil 5 min
1 White labs Belgian wit yeast
Everything went pretty well but I have a few questions:
Thanks guys. Pretty worried about the eucalyptus tastes I'm getting and I'm considering chucking it without even bottling it. Lesson learned to not be fancy and stick to the good old Capilano honey!
I'm up to about my 5th batch of homebrew, usually using extracts and some steeped grain. This time I've gone for a honey wheat beer recipe I found on the net. The ingredients were listed as follows (for a 20 litre batch):
226.8 g Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (39.4 EBC)
1.36 k Extra Light Dry Extract (5.9 EBC)
1.36 k Wheat Dry Extract (15.8 EBC)
42.5 g Northern Brewer [8.0%] - Boil 45 min
1.50 lbs Honey (Boil 45 min)
1.00 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15 min)
28.3 g Cascade [4.3%] - Boil 5 min
1 White labs Belgian wit yeast
Everything went pretty well but I have a few questions:
- When looking at honey in the supermarket, I randomly chose a jar of Ironbark honey. The beer is almost done fermenting and it reeks of eucalyptus, which it turns out is what Ironbark is. It also has a eucalyptus taste to it which isn't a very nice thing to have in a beer. Should I bother bottling this? Do you think some of the eucalyptus will dissipate once I bottle it? I do notice I get some flavour changes after bottling.
- The beer is still very cloudy.. is this from the honey or is it just the wheat? If it's the honey, would adding gelatine to the bucket get some of this honey to drop out, saving me from the eucalyptus?
- The OG was a real challenge to read. When I put the hydrometer in the sample, it would measure immediately as 1.075 but over the course of a minute or two would drop to about 1.070. It was such a cloudy beer than it seemed to be propped up by all the sediment floating around. Which reading should I be taking? Should I let the hydrometer settle for a few minutes?
- Does 1.5 lbs of honey seem like an awful lot? I followed along trusting the recipe, but that seemed like a lot.
Thanks guys. Pretty worried about the eucalyptus tastes I'm getting and I'm considering chucking it without even bottling it. Lesson learned to not be fancy and stick to the good old Capilano honey!