American Wheat Beer Summer Ale - Silver Medal 2015 Bluegrass Cup

[Pappers_]

Recipe Type

All Grain

Yeast

Wyeast Scottish Yeast

Yeast Starter

Yes

Batch Size (Gallons)

5 gallons

Original Gravity

1.044

Final Gravity

1.006

Boiling Time (Minutes)

60 minutes

IBU

22.5 IBUs

Color

4.6 SRM

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

Three weeks, 65F

Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

none

Tasting Notes

A light, dry, sessionable beer, only moderately bitter. A light bread-like aroma and

4 lbs Wheat Malt
2.75 lbs Pale Malt
2 lbs Munich Malt
0.5 oz Horizon hops (11.5%) 60 minutes
0.5 oz East Kent Goldings hops (5.5%) 10 minutes
​Wyeast Scottish Ale

Mashed at 148F, single infusion batch sparge

 

[jekeane]

looks good. I may give this a run this weekend.

 

[Pappers_]

looks good. I may give this a run this weekend.

I've made it with both Wyeast Scottish and US-05, both work well, giving a nice clean, dry summer drinker.