American Wheat Beer Misty Dawn Wheat

Misty Dawn Wheat:

Grain Bill:
7lbs Pale Malt
2lbs White Wheat Malt
1lb Orange clover Honey

Hop Schedule:
.25oz Citra 12% A.A. @60'
.25oz Citra 12% A.A. @45'
.25oz Citra 12% A.A. @30'
.25oz Citra 12% A.A. @15'
.75oz Sweet Orange Peel @15'
.25oz Citra 12% A.A. @ 5'

Mash grains at 153* for 60'
Batch sparge at 170*

Yeast:
Harvested from Sierra Nevada Kellerweis. WLP300, Wyeast 3068, or any yeast with banana/clove flavors will work.

Honey added 24 hours after fermentation starts

Fermented at 68-70* for 14 days

OG 1.052
FG 1.011
5.6% abv 40 ibu's

Is this intended as a kellerweiss clone or did you just use the yeast harvested?

No its not a kellerweis clone. I just really liked their yeast

Is this names after a certain nerdy tattooed red head?

haha no it's named after the dog i had when i was younger

How did this brew turn out?

I really like it. I'm gonna keep it as sort of a summer seasonal. It gets a lot of nice fruit flavors from ingredients and not from fruit itself. That's what i like about it. One thing i would change though is I'd shoot for about 4.5%-5% abv.

This may sound like a dumb question; but, do you just dump a pound of honey into the fermenter? Or do you boil the honey down, cool it, and dump it in the fermenter?

it goes straight in the fermenter. boiling it will destroy the aroma. you can heat it up a little fisrt though so it pours easier

jester5120 said:

it goes straight in the fermenter. boiling it will destroy the aroma. you can heat it up a little fisrt though so it pours easier

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Thanks! This beer sounds good and I'm brewing it tomorrow, can't wait, I get so pumped for brew day. :rockin:

I'm brewing your recipe this weekend! I'm using 3068. How big was your starter?

I only made about a 1 liter starter. it's not a real big beer especially if you don't add the honey until high krausen

Thanks for the help!

My sister is named misty dawn I may try to make an extract version of this for her!