brianpablo
Well-Known Member
So I set out yesterday to make a clone of Sierra Nevada's Old Chico Crystal Wheat - a fairly simple recipe based on what I could tell from their website. A nice summer drinkable thing bittered with Perle using Crystal for flavor and aroma, gravity of around 1.045, pitched with Safale 05.
The wort looked really dark, which surprised me given that the beer is quite light. Then I realized I had used Briess' Bavarian Wheat Extract rather "regular" wheat extract. The former is 65 pct wheat, as opposed to the 50-50 mix I thought I was getting. No worries as I'm sure I'll find folks to drink it, I myself am quite adept at "safe disposal" of brewing mistakes.
Just out of curiosity, what did I make? A dark wheat? A kinda-dunkel somethin' somethin'?
The wort looked really dark, which surprised me given that the beer is quite light. Then I realized I had used Briess' Bavarian Wheat Extract rather "regular" wheat extract. The former is 65 pct wheat, as opposed to the 50-50 mix I thought I was getting. No worries as I'm sure I'll find folks to drink it, I myself am quite adept at "safe disposal" of brewing mistakes.
Just out of curiosity, what did I make? A dark wheat? A kinda-dunkel somethin' somethin'?