Cinnamon Apple Wheat recipe

[andruss15]

Hey everyone, I was thinking of experimenting with a wheat beer and adding flavors of cinnamon and apple for the fall. I can currently only do extract brewing so I was hoping you could give me feedback on my recipe. (This would be my first recipe I constructed on my own)

Fermentables:
4.4lbs Wheat LME
3.3lbs Munich LME
1lb Light Candy Sugar

Steeping grains:
8oz Flaked Wheat
6oz Caramel Crystal 10L
6oz CaraRed

Hops:
1oz Northern Brewer (60 mins)
0.5oz Willamette (10 mins)
0.5oz Willamette (1 min)
0.5oz Saaz (1 min)

Yeast:
Wyeast Bealgian Wheat 3942

Other ingredients:
Whirlfloc tab
1 tsp cinnamon in boil (5 mins)
1 tsp nutmeg in boil (5 mins)
3.5 pounds fresh apple added to fermenter after fermentation complete
1 cinnamon stick added to fermenter after fermentation complete

Target OG: 1.061
Target FG: 1.016

Thoughts appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Kent88]

I'm certainly no pro when it comes to developing recipes, this might be fantastic as is, but I am wondering about a couple things.

The light candi sugar, what are you hoping that will contribute to the final product? Are you hoping for some flavor or are you trying to dry it out? Maybe something else?

And the flaked wheat. Usually starchy adjuncts are used in at least a partial-mash batch to get some starch conversion. I've heard of some people who don't that are just hoping for some flavor, but you already have a lot of wheat LME in this. What kind of contribution are you hoping to get from the flaked wheat in your final product?

I'd advise against adding a cinnamon stick in secondary. I once made an apple wine and thought that was a good idea, but when it came time to drink it cinnamon was the dominant flavor. Then again, mine was a 1-gallon batch of wine that sat with the cinnamon stick for a few months, and you're probably making a 5-gallon batch of beer that might be in contact with it for a couple weeks, so there are some big differences.

I'm terrible at analyzing hop schedules. I guess if it was me, I'd forget about the saaz and maybe dial back the 1 minute Willamette addition. I've heard that when you plan to add fruit to a beer that there shouldn't be a lot of hop character to it. I'm sure there are exceptions, though.

Have you looked at some graf recipes yet?