First Real Try At Hefeweizen

[Jag75]

You can rouse your bottle or keg to resuspend yeast. Commercial breweries often store Hefe kegs upside down until they're tapped.

Whoa , learn something new everyday.

 

[RabbitHole]

Nicely done. I agree with the mash pH of 5.6, that's the right thing to do for this style especially. On my last one I went even higher to about 5.7. Some advocate going up to 6.0.

I would skip the protein rest or limit to no more than 5 minutes max. At 15 minutes you're likely to see degradation of the head and greater clarity, which of course is wrong for this style.

I would reduce priming sugar significantly to no more than 10 ounces. Don't worry, you'll have PLENTY of carbonation and head. At 12 oz you will probably have gushers or even explosions, not good. So avoid that. Believe me, I've bottled more than 160 batches, I know what I'm talking about.

Cheers.

So I just reviewed this and like before left my salts out till the sach rest at 154°. And opted for no lactic acidosis this time and left the mash ph5.7

I ended with a tanked Eff of 52% and a beer of 4.1%. It’s going to be really good none the less. But Some people told me other places to only do the higher ph at the ferulic rest only and and a normal ph at sach rest.
What’s your thoughts??

 

[dmtaylor]

So I just reviewed this and like before left my salts out till the sach rest at 154°. And opted for no lactic acidosis this time and left the mash ph5.7

I ended with a tanked Eff of 52% and a beer of 4.1%. It’s going to be really good none the less. But Some people told me other places to only do the higher ph at the ferulic rest only and and a normal ph at sach rest.
What’s your thoughts??

I am not sure, I would like to experiment more with pH, but it seems to make sense to start with the higher pH then bring it down to normal pH later in the mash, so you may be right and this might be the cause of your low efficiency as well. Sorry if I misled you and messed up your efficiency.

 

[Cloud Surfer]

Has anyone tried open fermenting with their Hefe?