blue agave

making a wheat beer and wanted to add some blue agave nectar, and wondered how much and when to add it?

I added pure agave that I get from Costco to a saison in place of sugar. It was horrible. I love agave, put it in everything, but the slight spiciness did not translate well in my beer.

Hi, we have must in mine that the blue agave and tequila have very differents propierties like flavor, smell, consistance etc and this is because that the tequila is obtained from the blue agave but tequila is a product that had many transformations, extractions, destilations etc because the properties at final are very different than the blue agave if you can obtain extract of blue agave or blue agave himself i am very sure that the taste is very different than tequila, i know from a mexican artesanal beer that use barrels of an old tequila factory their barrels was used to aging tequila and now they used to fermenting their beer and effectivly their beers have a lagthly taste of tequila

I make an Agave Wheat with a simple grain bill of 5 lbs wheat, 4 lbs pale malt and 2 lbs of Amber Agave Nectar and it's delicious. Very crisp and refreshing, IBU's are around 12 and is about 5.5% abv.

Rob_B said:

I make an Agave Wheat with a simple grain bill of 5 lbs wheat, 4 lbs pale malt and 2 lbs of Amber Agave Nectar and it's delicious. Very crisp and refreshing, IBU's are around 12 and is about 5.5% abv.

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Sounds nice. Want to give this a try. When do you add the agave? What hops do you use?

I add the agave at about 10mins remaining in tehe boil and use Hallertauer Mittelfrueh at 3/4 oz at 60, 1/2 oz at 10, and 1/2 oz flameout. I used US-05 to keep the profile clean.

The 05 looks like an American style wheat. The clean yeast should let the Agave flavor come through. Thanks for sharing your recipe.

Rob_B said:

I make an Agave Wheat with a simple grain bill of 5 lbs wheat, 4 lbs pale malt and 2 lbs of Amber Agave Nectar and it's delicious. Very crisp and refreshing, IBU's are around 12 and is about 5.5% abv.

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Sounds yummy!

That does sound outstanding. I have an Agave Wit from AHS (extract kit) fermenting right now. Also called for 2 lbs. Agave nectar (though I added a little bit earlier in the boil). I used the Wyeast witbier yeast (3944). I hope the Agave flavor/aroma is present when it's finished.

Thanks guys! It is a tasty beer and all this talk has made me grab one now that my day is done. Let me know if anybody tries it.

I did make one error this morning though, it's 5 lbs 2-row & 4 lbs wheat.

thanks for all the insightful input fellow homebrewers. if my agave wheat beer turns out good i'll post the recipe, cheers!