Bomber Watson
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I tried to send Les the Weizenguy a pm but seems he cant take them right now.
So instead im starting a thread.
Im looking at doing a second home brew Wheat beer, my first one a couple of years ago being a total and utter failure and absolutely disgusting.
I've been drinking Burle Brewing Hef a bit recently, in the local mid-high 30's temp it has been a bit of a treat. Its currently around 28 degrees at nearly 10pm here so yeah, light bear time of year.
Now, they above mentioned "Heferweizen" is rather nice to me, not overly wheaty, but real strong bubblegum/banana flavour, and only just enough bitterness to balance it.
TMK its not actually a Heferweizen, as its filtered and pours clear, so that would make it a krystalweizen if im not mistaken? Stupid false advertising
Anyway, i would like to brew up something similar, and would like to run some ideas past you guys.
Basically what im thinking atm is 2x 1.5kg tins of Morgans Wheat extract, bittered with something....and fermented with Mangrove Jacks M20. Morgans and M20 being what the LHBS sells.
Re the bittering, From what i have gathered most wheats only have a single bittering addition at 60 minutes, does it really mater what hop you use for this? Im thinking most of the flavour/aroma would be gone by that time, so can i use what i have on hand (Galaxy, Cascade, Citra, Amarillo, Nelson Sauvin, Fuggles, Willamette, Pride of Ringwood, Falconers Flight, Prolly another copule I have forgotten about) for the addition, and just spice it to the correct IBU's, and be somewhat in the ballpark?
Also, will the M20 yeast give the desired strong banana flavour? Not sure if anyone has tried BB Hef or not to comment, but not quiet set up to go liquid yeasts yet.
Was thinking, and i tend to have some strange ideas, so bear with me, but had a thought that i could possibly get a bag of those banana lollies and dislolve them in some water and add it after primary has settled, or just chuck them in the boil to get a bit more banana flavour....Might be way off....
Also, would the two tins of Morgans Wheat be to wheaty for the style?
Also, i would probably ferment this along side a something (whatever i do next) on US05 so at around 18 degrees, would this be suitable or would the yeast react better to a slightly higher temp (20 or so?)
Have ze temp control.
Honestly i have no idea what im on about, as you can see i need help haha. 1
Cheers.
So instead im starting a thread.
Im looking at doing a second home brew Wheat beer, my first one a couple of years ago being a total and utter failure and absolutely disgusting.
I've been drinking Burle Brewing Hef a bit recently, in the local mid-high 30's temp it has been a bit of a treat. Its currently around 28 degrees at nearly 10pm here so yeah, light bear time of year.
Now, they above mentioned "Heferweizen" is rather nice to me, not overly wheaty, but real strong bubblegum/banana flavour, and only just enough bitterness to balance it.
TMK its not actually a Heferweizen, as its filtered and pours clear, so that would make it a krystalweizen if im not mistaken? Stupid false advertising
Anyway, i would like to brew up something similar, and would like to run some ideas past you guys.
Basically what im thinking atm is 2x 1.5kg tins of Morgans Wheat extract, bittered with something....and fermented with Mangrove Jacks M20. Morgans and M20 being what the LHBS sells.
Re the bittering, From what i have gathered most wheats only have a single bittering addition at 60 minutes, does it really mater what hop you use for this? Im thinking most of the flavour/aroma would be gone by that time, so can i use what i have on hand (Galaxy, Cascade, Citra, Amarillo, Nelson Sauvin, Fuggles, Willamette, Pride of Ringwood, Falconers Flight, Prolly another copule I have forgotten about) for the addition, and just spice it to the correct IBU's, and be somewhat in the ballpark?
Also, will the M20 yeast give the desired strong banana flavour? Not sure if anyone has tried BB Hef or not to comment, but not quiet set up to go liquid yeasts yet.
Was thinking, and i tend to have some strange ideas, so bear with me, but had a thought that i could possibly get a bag of those banana lollies and dislolve them in some water and add it after primary has settled, or just chuck them in the boil to get a bit more banana flavour....Might be way off....
Also, would the two tins of Morgans Wheat be to wheaty for the style?
Also, i would probably ferment this along side a something (whatever i do next) on US05 so at around 18 degrees, would this be suitable or would the yeast react better to a slightly higher temp (20 or so?)
Have ze temp control.
Honestly i have no idea what im on about, as you can see i need help haha. 1
Cheers.