Skrimpy
Well-Known Member
Tried my first american wheat today. I just grabbed the northern brewer recipe b/c it was simple and didn't call for a fly sparge...no recirc here yet. My efficiency was somewhere near 50% and I think I may have figured out at least part of the problem. My bigger issue is color. This thing is the same color as every pale ale i have brewed. Red/Brown. Shouldn't it be a yellow color? The only thing I can think of is that my lhbs didn't have the right grains? Maybe I did something wrong? Or should it have been a different recipe? Or is American Wheat this color and German Wheat is yellow? Here is the recipe:
4 lbs white wheat
4 lbs 2 row pale
mash was at 152-155
boil for 60 min
1 oz willamette 60 min
1 oz 15 min (I did mine at 5)
On the efficiency problem: my OG was just over 1.030 and was supposed to be 1.044-1.050. I think it's because I couldn't quite get the grainbed temp up to 170 for mashout and sparge. I don't quite understand why. I was taking boiling water (which wasn't boiling by the time I transferred it to the grains) and dumping it on the grains. Oh well, win some, lose some. guess I need to invest in a pump and start recirculating through an HLT.
4 lbs white wheat
4 lbs 2 row pale
mash was at 152-155
boil for 60 min
1 oz willamette 60 min
1 oz 15 min (I did mine at 5)
On the efficiency problem: my OG was just over 1.030 and was supposed to be 1.044-1.050. I think it's because I couldn't quite get the grainbed temp up to 170 for mashout and sparge. I don't quite understand why. I was taking boiling water (which wasn't boiling by the time I transferred it to the grains) and dumping it on the grains. Oh well, win some, lose some. guess I need to invest in a pump and start recirculating through an HLT.