I found this post to be an interesting problem, so I started doing some research on it and came up with a recipe... of sorts. Let me preface this by saying I'm not vegan, I don't follow a raw foods diet, that I'll be the first to admit this recipe sounds really nasty and I will never actually make it, but theoretically it should work. It's for a honey wheat beer that is both vegan and raw food diet compliant. The major problem with this recipe is the original gravity is too low (anything in the 1.040+ range would make it about 8%+ ABV) as well as the final gravity, but without the ability to use real brewing ingredients or processes it's as good as it gets.
Rainbow Moon Beam's Honey Wheat Ale
Size: 5 gal
Type: Extract
OG: 1.033
FG: .994
IBUs: 14.1
ABV: 5.1%
Ingredients
3.5lb Turbinado Sugar
3lb Red Maca Powder
1lb Wheat Germ Powder, Defatted
1lb Agave Nectar, Organic (raw food compliant manufacturing process)
8oz Maltodextrin
1tbsp 52 pH Stabilizer
.25oz Citra hops, whole leaf (12%)
1pk Wyeast Belgian Wheat Yeast (3942) (2L starter would be better)
4oz Priming Sugar
Process
Dechloronate 5 gallons of water and leave 2 gallons in sterilized, sealed containers in refrigerator.
In 3 gallons of cold water, mix in sugar, maca powder, wheat germ, agave nectar, malto dextrin and pH stabilizer. In a 4 gallon brew pot, bring wort to 115F and add Citra hops. Hold at 115F for 1 hour, stirring occassionally.
Strain out wort into fermenting bucket, add the 2 gallons of cold water and pitch yeast when wort reads 70F.
Primary ferment 7 days and rack to secondary for 7-14 days until fermentation has halted. Bottle with 4oz corn based priming sugar.
Note: The only way I could figure to sterilize the wort without boiling would be to perhaps run it through an aquarium UV steilizer hooked to a pump for a few minutes, though this runs the risk of "skunking" it a bit due to UV's reaction with hops. This would of course be done before pitching the yeast.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
So what do you all think? A terrible violation of all that is holy in brewing?