I brewed up my first Hefe Weizen yesterday and I'm surprised by the color of my wort. It seems awfully dark.
My recipe:
6 lb. Williams Weizen LME
mini mash
1.25 lb Golden promise
12 oz Cara pils
8 oz munich
.5 oz Hallertau Mittefruh 4.8AA 60 min
.5 oz Hallertau Mittefruh 4.8AA 20 min
.25 oz Hallertau Mittefruh 4.8AA 5 min
I did the mash and the resulting 2 gallons of wort was light enough. Adding the additional water, LME and boiling really darkened it up a bunch. I used whole hops and due to the large quantity of cold break, I left quite a bit in my kettle. I ended up with only 4.5 gallons of the 5.75 that was in my kettle. SG was 1.050
I made up a little more wort in my kitchen using 1 gallon water and 1.25 lbs Muntons Wheat DME, and another .25 oz hops. I was again surprised at how dark the wort is with just DME / hops / water.
The OG after adding this was still at 1.050.
I pitched WLP300 HefeWizen yeast starter last night about 8:00 pm and it's bubbling nicely through the blow off tube this morning.
Those of you that brew Hefe Weizen using extracts. Have you been able to brew a light colored brew? Did I carmalize the wort by doing a full boil?
My recipe:
6 lb. Williams Weizen LME
mini mash
1.25 lb Golden promise
12 oz Cara pils
8 oz munich
.5 oz Hallertau Mittefruh 4.8AA 60 min
.5 oz Hallertau Mittefruh 4.8AA 20 min
.25 oz Hallertau Mittefruh 4.8AA 5 min
I did the mash and the resulting 2 gallons of wort was light enough. Adding the additional water, LME and boiling really darkened it up a bunch. I used whole hops and due to the large quantity of cold break, I left quite a bit in my kettle. I ended up with only 4.5 gallons of the 5.75 that was in my kettle. SG was 1.050
I made up a little more wort in my kitchen using 1 gallon water and 1.25 lbs Muntons Wheat DME, and another .25 oz hops. I was again surprised at how dark the wort is with just DME / hops / water.
The OG after adding this was still at 1.050.
I pitched WLP300 HefeWizen yeast starter last night about 8:00 pm and it's bubbling nicely through the blow off tube this morning.
Those of you that brew Hefe Weizen using extracts. Have you been able to brew a light colored brew? Did I carmalize the wort by doing a full boil?