I realize that wheat beer is ****^&(ED UP
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I like my wheat beer...so much so that I make up to 60 gals a year...:rockin::rockin::rockin::rockin:
How many pints did it take you to realize this?
eschatz
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on a hot summer day sitting outside, wheat is where its at. you cant go wrong with a wheat!!!!
I've got a real nice American Wheat on draft right now with some Grains of Paradise... real nice and light, but with just a wee spice kick.
ShortSnoutBrewing
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I've got a wheat going now myself....going to add some Riesling and see what happens.
vfinch
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I'll admit the first time I tried a wheat beer I was thrown off... where's the malt flavour?? But after the second glass I was hooked. GREAT summer beer and refreshing.
Desert_Sky
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you should ask the good Pastor his opinion on wheat beers
I haven't really liked many wheats at all. I bought Hoegaarten or however you spell it, because of all the raves on this site. First one I didn't like much. Second one I sort of liked. I may be on my way to wheat train. or something.
TwoHeadsBrewing
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I like wheats OK that I've bought in stores, but not the hefes. One thing I did to my homebrew wheat recipe is add about twice as much hops as recommended for the style. Most Am. Wheat recipes say to use 1oz of a pretty low alpha hop for 60 minutes, and that's it. However, with my wheat I did 1oz for 60 min, .5oz at 15, and .5oz at 5 minutes. Maybe it's not true to style, but I get that nice wheat malt flavor, the fruity overtones of the wheat yeast, and some good hop flavor and aroma. It's gotta be one of my favorites so far...and has turned out to be quite the crowd pleaser.
Danek
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Got to love the wheats. I made one to have as my summer beer, for when I'm whiling away the long summer evenings. Mm mmm.
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made my first wheat for a music fest last weekend. Well after some failed attempt at jerry rigged force carbing, I botteled it Monday night. We'll see how it tutrns out. Only got 23 beers out of the original 5+ gallons after transferring to a keg, and failing at trying to relieve pressure and what not with my pump tap. It was slightly carbonated going into the bottles which made bottling interesting! I guess I'll see how it is in a couple weeks.
NWernBrewer
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Not too big a fan of American Wheats - but a Bavarian Weissebier is tasty.
Soulive
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nyer
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I just kegged a franziskaner clone, good lord is it tasty.
Soulive
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I made that clone when I was starting out and Amen...
Beerthoven
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Jamil's "Kent's Hollow Leg American Wheat" is great. I'm brewing it for the second time this weekend. It will be the first recipe I've ever repeated exactly.
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