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Makiti's Wheat - BluBery Style
This is a very flavorful wheat beer. Read other recipes where they had issues achiving a true blueberry flavor. Total bluberries in recipe are actually 6lbs. Due to unknown augar amounts I only put 3lbs down...color is very close tho!
| Brewer: | DogBone Brewey | Email: | - | |||||
| Beer: | Makiti's Wheat - BluBery Style | Style: | American Wheat | |||||
| Type: | Extract w/grain | Size: | 5.5 gallons | |||||
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Bitterness: | 22 IBU | |||||
| OG: | 1.059 | FG: | 1.012 | |||||
| Alcohol: | 6.1% v/v (4.8% w/w) | |||||||
| Water: | 6 Gallons of Spring Water | |||||||
| Grain: | .5 lb. American crystal 10L .5 lb. Dextrine malt (Cara-Pils) |
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| Steep: | Steep grains for 30mins @ 155° in .75 gallons water Spraged with 2.25 gallons @ 160° |
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| Boil: | 60 minutes | SG 1.109 | 3 gallons | |||||
| 6 lb. Wheat extract 3 lb. Blueberries |
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| boiled 2 lbs of blueberries and added to wort @ 15mins. Added another pound into fermentor for a total of 3 lbs. | ||||||||
| Hops: | 1 oz. Hallertauer Mittelfruh (3.9% AA, 60 min.) 1 oz. Saaz (5.0% AA, 45 min.) .5 oz. Saaz (5.0% AA, 30 min.) .5 oz. Saaz (5.0% AA, 15 min.) |
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| Yeast: | Wyeast 1056 | |||||||
| Log: | Crushed 1 lbs of bluebrerries and added another 2 more pounds to secondary fermentor for a total of 3 lbs in secondary...2 weeks there. | |||||||
| Carbonation: | 3.0 volumes | Keg: 17.7 psi @ 40°F | ||||||
| carbed @ 20psi for 4 days and dropped to 17 for 2 days. | ||||||||
| Tasting: | Nice sweet blueberry taste that complments the wheat flavor...smooth. Color is almost dead on...just a little more purple tint. | |||||||
Recipe posted 05/02/08.
