I am off this week and next, so I will be brewing a bunch. A friend asked me to show him the ropes of homebrew . . . made my day! Of course, for his first brew, he wanted to go complicated. He shows me a recipe for a "Strawberry Wit" of sorts, which is not all bad, but seems rather vague about specifics in the ingredients. Either way, it calls for 4 lbs. wheat extract, 2 lb. flaked oats, 1 lb. candy sugar, 2 lbs. wheat malt, 1 oz of bittering hops, 1 oz of flavoring hops, 8 oz. strawberry flavoring extract and some yeast. Yes, that is as specific as it gets . . . Seeing how the local supply store is not as big on brewing as the big store in town, we changed it up a little.
3.3 lbs canned Munton's wheat extract
2 lbs. flaked oats
3 lbs. dried wheat malt
1 lb. candy sugar
1 oz. Cascade hops for 60
1 oz. Cascade hops for 10
8 oz. Strawberry NF extract just before bottling
Of course, we get back to the house to find I have run out of Ale Yeast . . . for shame!! Looks like another stop at Valley Winery & Brew Supply today to restock on Ale Yeast. Other than that, "The Boss" has asked for a Bud Light clone, or something light . . . best to keep "The Boss" happy, nobody likes it when she isn't happy
And the last brew in the plans so far is a Chai Stout. I am not sure why I want this, it just sounded interesting. I am quite sure I will find more to brew, the requests from friends always pile on, but I usually only consider the ones that are willing to buy ingredients . . . probably going to cook up a Heidelbeere Weizen before I go back to work or the Caramel Apple Honey Mead I found on the forum . . . apologies for not knowing whose recipe it was, but it totally rocked, will have to look for that again.