WildHopHunter
Active Member
Hi Everyone - Recently I was given a couple of cans of extract (Light & Wheat) from a friend who never got around to brewing. Being winter time I really didn't want to brew a Hefeweizen. I decided to brew a winter wheat which I was shooting to be a Wheat meets Porter. I came up with the following recipe:
3.3 lbs Light LME
3.3 lbs Wheat LME
3/4 lbs Roasted Barley
1/2 lbs Crystal 60 malt
1/2 lbs Chocolate malt
I wanted to ferment this using WLP320 "American Wheat" so that I didn't get too many esters. It turns out that my LHBS didn't carry this yeast. I should have just gone with WLP001 but instead I took WLP380 "Hefeweizen IV".
Needless to say the beer turned out to have a ton of clove esters. I find the taste of cloves to really not work well with the dark malts. I am on the fence whether to let the beer age to see if the clove flavor disappates or to dump the batch.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
3.3 lbs Light LME
3.3 lbs Wheat LME
3/4 lbs Roasted Barley
1/2 lbs Crystal 60 malt
1/2 lbs Chocolate malt
I wanted to ferment this using WLP320 "American Wheat" so that I didn't get too many esters. It turns out that my LHBS didn't carry this yeast. I should have just gone with WLP001 but instead I took WLP380 "Hefeweizen IV".
Needless to say the beer turned out to have a ton of clove esters. I find the taste of cloves to really not work well with the dark malts. I am on the fence whether to let the beer age to see if the clove flavor disappates or to dump the batch.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.