Hello everyone!
So far I have brewed 3 different Brewer's Best kits, with great results. I have decided to make my own recipe for a Watermelon Wheat beer and wanted to get some opinions on how some more experienced brewers think this will turn out before I actually brew it. Here is my recipe:
3 lbs Bries dried malt Bavarian Wheat (65% wheat/35% barley)
3.3 lbs Bries CBW Bavarian Wheat extract
1 oz Northern Brewer pellets (bittering) 8.5% AA
1 oz Perle Pellets (finishing) 7.5% AA
1 lb Honey
1 Entire Watermelon, strained into juice (approx. 4 cups of juice)
White Labs WLP380 Hefeweizen IV Ale Yeast liquid
60 minute boil of approx. 2.5 gallons. I plan add the wort to about 2.5 gallons more of ice cold water to chill it down to 70 degrees or so. fermenting for a week in a glass carboy, transferred to a food grade bucket for another week. After fermentation is done I plan to taste test, if not enough watermelon flavor is present I have 4 oz of watermelon extract...I will add accordingly. Will age in bottles approx. 2 months.
What do you guys think? Should I add some priming sugar before bottling as well?
Thanks a lot!
So far I have brewed 3 different Brewer's Best kits, with great results. I have decided to make my own recipe for a Watermelon Wheat beer and wanted to get some opinions on how some more experienced brewers think this will turn out before I actually brew it. Here is my recipe:
3 lbs Bries dried malt Bavarian Wheat (65% wheat/35% barley)
3.3 lbs Bries CBW Bavarian Wheat extract
1 oz Northern Brewer pellets (bittering) 8.5% AA
1 oz Perle Pellets (finishing) 7.5% AA
1 lb Honey
1 Entire Watermelon, strained into juice (approx. 4 cups of juice)
White Labs WLP380 Hefeweizen IV Ale Yeast liquid
60 minute boil of approx. 2.5 gallons. I plan add the wort to about 2.5 gallons more of ice cold water to chill it down to 70 degrees or so. fermenting for a week in a glass carboy, transferred to a food grade bucket for another week. After fermentation is done I plan to taste test, if not enough watermelon flavor is present I have 4 oz of watermelon extract...I will add accordingly. Will age in bottles approx. 2 months.
What do you guys think? Should I add some priming sugar before bottling as well?
Thanks a lot!