Durden Wheat Beer
Easy drinking summer wheat beer
ideal whilst watching cricket.
Brewer: | M. Bartalis | Email: | bartalism@btinternet.com | |||||
Beer: | Durden Wheat Beer | Style: | Weizen/Weissbier | |||||
Type: | All grain | Size: | 3.0 Imp. gal. | |||||
Color: |
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Bitterness: | 15 IBU | |||||
OG: | 1.058 | FG: | 1.008 | |||||
Alcohol: | 6.4% v/v (5.1% w/w) | |||||||
Water: | Moderately soft water, boiled cooled and racked. re-heated to strike temperature. |
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Grain: | 2.96 lb. Lager Malt 4.43 lb. Wheat malt |
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Mash: | 75% efficiency | |||||||
Mash @ 152° F for 90min. Sparge. | ||||||||
Boil: | 90 minutes | SG 1.039 | 4.5 Imp. gal. | |||||
Hops: | 15.6g Tettnager (3.0% AA, 90 min.) 7.0g Tettnager (3.0% AA, 30 min.) 10.5g Saaz (2.7% AA, 15 min.) |
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Yeast: | Good quality lager yeast | |||||||
Log: | Ferment at 68° F. Rack after gravity dropped to quarter stage. cool ferment (<50F) in demijohns, bottle at 1.011 | |||||||
Carbonation: | 4.2 volumes |
Keg: 25.7 psi @ 34°F Cane Sugar: 135g for 2.4 Imp. gal. @ 62°F |
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Tasting: | Still in bottle as the cricket season has yet to start. Not a beer for long maturation? Comments please |
Recipe posted 01/17/01.