Hi everyone,
I'm planning on doing a wheat beer this weekend, it'll be my 1st extract brew. I'd just like to list what I plan to do and maybe you can all tell me if it's not going to work out/can be improved.
In a 10L stock pot, I plan to add 7 litres of water boiled in the kettle to 1.5kg (3.3lbs) of Cooper's wheat extract (6.5 EBC).
Bring it to the boil and add 10g (1/3 oz) Halletau hops for 60mins
Then 10g Hallertau and a pinch of Irish Moss for 15 mins
10g orange peel and 10g fresh coriander for 10 mins
10g Saaz for 3 mins
Then cool it in the sink filled with ice water,
pour it through a filtered funnel into the fermenter
and top up with water until the SG is 1.050 (I expect this to be around the 10 litre mark)
make sure the temp is approx 23 degrees (73 fahrenheit) and add half of a 11.5g pack of s33 yeast
Does anyone see any problems that would arise from following this method? (you can take for granted that everything will be properly sanatised)
I'm also wondering would approx 10 litres (2.6 gallons) of wort in a 25 litre (6.6 gallon) fermenter lead to an infection? I do have a 10L fermenter but it's not clear and the lid is ridiculously hard to get off so I'm afraid of shaking up the sediment when trying to take it off.
Thanks, Mark
I'm planning on doing a wheat beer this weekend, it'll be my 1st extract brew. I'd just like to list what I plan to do and maybe you can all tell me if it's not going to work out/can be improved.
In a 10L stock pot, I plan to add 7 litres of water boiled in the kettle to 1.5kg (3.3lbs) of Cooper's wheat extract (6.5 EBC).
Bring it to the boil and add 10g (1/3 oz) Halletau hops for 60mins
Then 10g Hallertau and a pinch of Irish Moss for 15 mins
10g orange peel and 10g fresh coriander for 10 mins
10g Saaz for 3 mins
Then cool it in the sink filled with ice water,
pour it through a filtered funnel into the fermenter
and top up with water until the SG is 1.050 (I expect this to be around the 10 litre mark)
make sure the temp is approx 23 degrees (73 fahrenheit) and add half of a 11.5g pack of s33 yeast
Does anyone see any problems that would arise from following this method? (you can take for granted that everything will be properly sanatised)
I'm also wondering would approx 10 litres (2.6 gallons) of wort in a 25 litre (6.6 gallon) fermenter lead to an infection? I do have a 10L fermenter but it's not clear and the lid is ridiculously hard to get off so I'm afraid of shaking up the sediment when trying to take it off.
Thanks, Mark