Unmalted Wheat in Berliner Weisse

[aldousbee]

Would it be possible to use Unmalted Wheat instead of malted wheat in a Berliner Weisse? I will use around 40% Unmalted wheat. Brewing supplies are very hard to get here in our place. We do not have malted wheat here only raw unmalted wheat.

I got away with using 50% wheat "flour" in my wit, but a BW is different - would there be a difference in using malted and unmalted?

Malting scares me :cross:

 

[Nateo]

Unmalted wheat will be fine.

 

[ArcaneXor]

It would be ok as long as you have the means gelatinize and convert that much unmalted grain, but keep in mind that the few remaining authentic Berliner Weisses contain relatively little to no wheat at all these days.

 

[aldousbee]

thanks! on with the brew!

 

[November]

You could always malt it if you wanted. It is very easy and takes 4 or 5 days. I've been doing this a lot lately.

 

[aldousbee]

i would like to malt my wheat, but its difficult to malt here. temp is usually 28-32c.