Sweet wheat. What to do?

A friend kindly bought me a wheat ale kit from Brewhouse--these are basically zero effort bags of slightly concentrated wort that you dump in a fermenter then pitch your yeast. OG was 1.050 and I used US-05. It only got done to 1.017. I don't know if that's normal for these kinds of kits but I like my wheat ales quite a bit drier than that. The 4.4% ABV doesn't bother me.

So it's pretty sweet and currently sitting in secondary and the FG isn't going anywhere. I racked off 1 gallon and put it on strawberries a week ago. I'll test that today. But I'm wondering what to do with the rest. Any ideas?

I don't want to keg it as-is. I think it's going to just taste too sweet. Should I throw it on top of more fruit? Brew another really dry wheat ale (all-grain) and mix them? Open to wild ideas to save this.


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It might be done, if your gravity is stable. If there are fermentables left, you could try pitching a more attentive yeast (like champagne). It might dry it out some. You could mask the sweetness with a fruit addition lime you mentioned, but you are probably stuck with this beer as is.

Tested the gallon that I racked onto strawberries and it was at 1.015, maybe 1.014. I'm not typically a fruit beer guy but my wife liked the hydro sample and she typically hates uncarbonated samples. So I'm going to buy more strawberries and toss them in the other 5 gallons.


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