This sounds like fun.
Not having ever made a wheat beer, what would make a good equivalent from an extract point of view? Could you use a tin of wheat extract and a tin of light?
Alot of wheat extract tins are a 60/40 Wheat/Ale malt mix, so if you want use 2 tins, then add whatever specialty malts you like (look up steeping).
Cheers SJ
Sounds good.
Would I get away with using a darker specialty malt?? I have JMW Crystal, Caraaroma and Caramunich III at my disposal.
It's fine to ignore the 50g in the original recipe. It isn't really needed, although I'm sure I had a very good reason at the time, like 50g of grain sitting in a bag or something...personally i don't think you need a specialty in wheat (though you can't argue with the positive feedback about the original recipe!). My wheats are either 60/40 or 50/50 wheat/ale malt. However if you use a specialty malt make sure it is the steeping kind, otherwise you will require some base malt to perform a mini-mash (no problems in doing this).
As you've listed cara- above these should be fine for steeping. May try some cara-munich, but not too much.
Cheers SJ
I don't know if I mentioned this elsewhere but for a fruit that is so colourful and ready to stain things you don't really get colour from them in the beer. I've used 4kgs and gotten only a hint of the beginnings of what might have been pink, whereas 1kg of rasberries will colour the beer like nothing else.After feeling depressed this week as a result of the SO2/strawberry incident i decided to take a hydro reading.
It was 1.010 when i racked onto the strawbs, a week later its 1.016.
Colour is still the typical pale weizen, not even a hint of colour from the strawbs. I was about to cry when i copped a whiff. That's not what a weizen smells like.
Had a taste and wow, strawberry. Tart but definitely a strawberry flavour.
I'll just tell people i used an heirloom variety such as Fraises Des Bois :lol:
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