Honey Wheat

[noggins]

Another wheat recipe using honey malt...my first one; any thoughts are appreciated.


Honey Wheat

Batch: 5.5 gal
Mash: 152°F 60 min 2.8 gal
Boil: 7 gal 60 min
Estimated OG: 1.046
Estimated FG: 1.012
Estimated ABV: 4.4%
Estimated IBU: 12
Estimated SRM: 3

6.0 lb Wheat Malt
2.0 lb 2 Row Pale
1.0 lb Honey Malt

0.5 oz Cascade(60 min)
0.5 oz Tettnanger(60 min)

 

[jonmohno]

Why not,sounds decent never used tetnagnager but have use hallertau and the like often. What yeast do you plan on using?

 

[noggins]

Only 1 response? I'm sad now

Anyone have suggestions about the honey malt? I've never used it and read different opinions on how it should be used and in what quantities..

 

[smagee]

I'd suggest toning down the honey malt to ~.5lb. It's a pretty potent flavor; I used 1lb in a hop bomb IIPA I made a few weeks back and it's still pretty cloying. The wheat might help balance it a bit (for you), but I thought the same about the pound of hops I was using .

 

[connord]

+1 to .5# of honey malt
With that much wheat I would add a pound or 2 of rice hulls they are cheap and can prevent a huge headache

Why the 2 different hops @ 60 min?

 

[jonmohno]

If you like rye or would like to add a spice character to it you could add some rye malt, I biab so i dont have to worry about stuck runnoff or whatever.Rye can be sticky,so the rice hulls is a good idea. Are you going to prime with honey? Ive never done it but i need to.Im on my way to get some thai palm sugar for a rye this weekend,ill probably prime with it too.
I used about 1.5# 5 gal batch equivellent of honey malt,crystal 20 and oat malt,all together turned out so good i posted my recipe up for it.Of honey malt i used about the equivellent of half pound in that.

 

[wadefisher]

+1 on the less is better to honey malt. Don't over do it.

 

[Tinga]

Looks pretty plain and simple. +1 to toning down the honey malt. I would add maybe some more hops maybe like .25 oz cascade at 15-20 minutes or something like that.

 

[noggins]

Honey Wheat

Batch: 5.5 gal
Mash: 152°F 60 min 2.8 gal
Boil: 7 gal 60 min
Estimated OG: 1.049
Estimated FG: 1.012
Estimated ABV: 4.8%
Estimated IBU: 20
Estimated SRM: 3

6.0 lb Wheat Malt
3.0 lb 2 Row Pale
8.0 oz Honey Malt

0.5 oz Cascade(60 min)
0.5 oz Cascade(30 min)

 

[jonmohno]

What yeast?

 

[noggins]

What yeast do you plan on using?

I've had good results with Nottingham in other recent brews...I prefer not to spend more than a couple bucks on my yeast, though I'm sure a good liquid wheat yeast strain would be lovely, I can't justify the extra $5 for something the drinkers of this(myself included) probably won't notice. I've also got a few bottles of washed US-05 in the fridge..

 

[jonmohno]

Danstar has a munich wheat yeast that is almost the same price,i liked it and Safale 06 -a little pricier.Im going to try T-58 in a wheat next time i do a wheat. I just realized i paid 4.75 for notting ham and 2.50 for t-58? WTF??? They probably did it because thats what people are buying more of at my lhbs NICE! Its the new Danstar vaccume sealed package also,woooooo
Always something when i walk out of there, last few times i had near expired yeast.

 

[noggins]

brewing this on friday with some of my washed us-05. I'll report back with pics and such in a few weeks. Total cost of this with recycled yeast is like $14, and I already have the 2row on hand so it'll only be $11 this time. I remember making an extract honey wheat a few years ago that was nearly $30...but damned good.