First AG batch, are these ingredients good for hefeweizen

Hello all,

I am getting ready to do my first AG batch, a Black Raspberry Hefeweizen made using black raspberries and fresh wildflower Honey from a local farm.

Are these grains suitable for a Hefe?

5lbs Briess Organic 2-row Pale Barley
5lbs Weyermann Organic Pale Wheat Malt

thanks to everyone for their help in getting me into AG brewing.

ALSO. When using whole Hops in a bag do you remove the bag after the boil?

best,
RJ

Grains are ok.
Just leave the bag in the kettle until you rack to the fermenter.

RJSkypala said:

Hello all,

I am getting ready to do my first AG batch, a Black Raspberry Hefeweizen made using black raspberries and fresh wildflower Honey from a local farm.

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My next batch is going to be blackberry weizen. How much raspberries were you thinking of using, and how? I'm curious as I've not put berries in beer before.

I racked some mead onto blackberries last month and the color is so awesome I was motivated to do the same with beer.

I picked up the black raspberries upstate where I live for most of the year, I only ended up with a little over 1lb of them. I may just use those to add a little color/hint of flavor or if I can find some more local berries I will probably up it to 2 or more 3 lbs. I know 1lb is basically nothing but I also really want to use local/fresh ingredients...anyway, these raspberries have more flavor than anything I have had at the supermarket.