Need Help with recipe.

[assistantreaper]

OK so my grandpa has given me a 5 gallon bucket full of raw red winter wheat, and i would like nothing more than to turn that into a delicious "wit" style beer. Here is the recipe i would like to follow but need advice/recommendations before i brew. Also this is my first all grain batch

Batch size 10 gallons

10 lbs 6 row Malt
9 lbs raw red winter wheat
1 lbs quaker oats
1 lbs rice hulls
2 oz hallertau hops
1.5 oz coriander
1.5 oz bitter orange peal

Basic brewing process:

Mix crushed raw wheat and oats and boil together for 60 minutes "cereal mash"

Add the "cereal mash" to the regular mash "consisting of rice hulls and 6 row malt" and mash together for 60 minutes at 155 degrees

Fly sparge from mash tun into keggle with 170 degree sparge water

add 2 oz hops at 60 minute boil
add 1.5 oz coriander at 5 minute boil
add 1.5 oz bitter orange peel at 5 minute boil

Innoculate with a wheat beer strain.


PLease feel free to criticize or offer suggestions

 

[Montanaandy]

Monster grain bill for a Wit. What is your target OG? Too much 2 row IMHO for a wheat based beer. Cut that back 1/2-1/3. Use flaked oats not Quaker Oats - you will gunk up your MT despite the rice hulls. I would cut back to 1/2 lb on the oats. Add late hops - say 1/2-1 oz of Hallertau or other noble hops @ 5/10/flameout. Is crushed raw wheat the same as milled wheat? Add the coriander + orange at the 15 minute mark (along with a clairfying agent).

 

[assistantreaper]

Monster grain bill for a Wit. What is your target OG? Too much 2 row IMHO for a wheat based beer. Cut that back 1/2-1/3.

Im shooting for about 5.5% alcohol. Do you mean to cut the entire grain bill by 1/2 to 1/3 or just cut the 6 row barley by 1/2 to 1/3?

"Use flaked oats not Quaker Oats - you will gunk up your MT despite the rice hulls. I would cut back to 1/2 lb on the oats."
Thanks for the tip.

"Add late hops - say 1/2-1 oz of Hallertau or other noble hops @ 5/10/ flameout."
Would you recommend additional hops or just setting aside some of the first addition?

 

[Montanaandy]

Im shooting for about 5.5% alcohol. Do you mean to cut the entire grain bill by 1/2 to 1/3 or just cut the 6 row barley by 1/2 to 1/3?

*No, just cut the 2 row back (I guess that you are using 6 row) You might want to use 2 Row in place of some of the 6 Row. I don't use 6 Row even though we grow it around these parts. You are brewing a Wit and you have that nice wheat so that should be the focus.

"Use flaked oats not Quaker Oats - you will gunk up your MT despite the rice hulls. I would cut back to 1/2 lb on the oats."
Thanks for the tip.

"Add late hops - say 1/2-1 oz of Hallertau or other noble hops @ 5/10/ flameout."
Would you recommend additional hops or just setting aside some of the first addition?

*I would add additional hops but I am a hop head. The late additions will be for flavor and aroma and won't add any bitterness. It depends on your personal preference.

 

[Hopper5000]

So if this is raw wheat will it even convert or will there just be a huge amount of unfermentables?

 

[Montanaandy]

So if this is raw wheat will it even convert or will there just be a huge amount of unfermentables?

I only use flaked and torrified raw wheat so I really can't help you with the fermentability of whole raw red wheat. I would do some research on it before brewing with it. I do know it will cloud the beer up but that is fine for a Wit.