stageseven
Well-Known Member
The second batch I brewed was based on my own recipe, a combination of ingredients that I thought would work well together for a wheat beer. It's an all-extract with some steeping grains, and I thought it turned out pretty well. There's a bit of a banana taste if you let it sit in your mouth that I didn't like, but I'm not sure if that's from the yeast or what.
It's a cherry wheat, and had a nice dark tan color with a red tint. The smell is pretty Belgian in quality, on the tangy side. The cherry flavor comes through nicely, and although the hops don't really hit you in the mouth, it's got a present lingering bitterness in the aftertaste.
Recipe Type: Extract
Yeast: WB-06 Safbrew Wheat Beer yeast
Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.012
IBU: 21.5
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Color: 13.6 SRM
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 7 days, 68 F
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 14 days, 68 F
Recipe for 5 gallons
3.0 lbs Dry Wheat Extract (8 SRM)
3.3 lbs Liquid Wheat Extract (8 SRM)
1 lb Honey Malt (25 SRM)
1 lb Special Roast (50 SRM)
1 lb fresh cherries, chopped
1 oz Hallertauer (4.8%) for 60 min
0.5 oz Fuggles (4.5%) for 60 min
0.5 oz Fuggles (4.5%) for 15 min
Safbrew Wheat Beer Yeast (WB-06)
Grains steeped for 30 min in 3 gallons water @ 165 F, then rinsed in 1 gallon @ 165.
Fermented at 68 F for 1 week
Racked to secondary on top of 1 lb chopped fresh cherries for 2 weeks
Bottled for 3 weeks.
I enjoy it a lot, but I can see that it could stand for some improvement. Any thoughts anyone? It ended up somewhere around 5.2% ABV, but that's before factoring in the cherries. I didn't take a reading after putting it in the secondary, so I have no idea how many points 1 pound of cherries would add.
It's a cherry wheat, and had a nice dark tan color with a red tint. The smell is pretty Belgian in quality, on the tangy side. The cherry flavor comes through nicely, and although the hops don't really hit you in the mouth, it's got a present lingering bitterness in the aftertaste.
Recipe Type: Extract
Yeast: WB-06 Safbrew Wheat Beer yeast
Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.012
IBU: 21.5
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Color: 13.6 SRM
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 7 days, 68 F
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 14 days, 68 F
Recipe for 5 gallons
3.0 lbs Dry Wheat Extract (8 SRM)
3.3 lbs Liquid Wheat Extract (8 SRM)
1 lb Honey Malt (25 SRM)
1 lb Special Roast (50 SRM)
1 lb fresh cherries, chopped
1 oz Hallertauer (4.8%) for 60 min
0.5 oz Fuggles (4.5%) for 60 min
0.5 oz Fuggles (4.5%) for 15 min
Safbrew Wheat Beer Yeast (WB-06)
Grains steeped for 30 min in 3 gallons water @ 165 F, then rinsed in 1 gallon @ 165.
Fermented at 68 F for 1 week
Racked to secondary on top of 1 lb chopped fresh cherries for 2 weeks
Bottled for 3 weeks.
I enjoy it a lot, but I can see that it could stand for some improvement. Any thoughts anyone? It ended up somewhere around 5.2% ABV, but that's before factoring in the cherries. I didn't take a reading after putting it in the secondary, so I have no idea how many points 1 pound of cherries would add.