Hop-forward American wheat recipe?

[heckofagator]

this is a description from a local brewery. I'd like to try and replicate it. Sometimes I can find IPAs a bit much, but this one was really good.

"hop forward American Wheat Ale, packed with four different varieties of US grown hops for a citrusy and pine-like flavor."

Any ideas for an all grain recipe?

 

[BlueHouseBrewhaus]

Really simple version would be 60% US 2-Row, 40% German Wheat. For a little variety try 55% 2-row, 45% wheat, 10% Munich/C20/Vienna/whatever. Then for citrusy/piney hops you have Amarillo, Apollo, Cascade, Citra, Simcoe and several others. I personally am a big fan of Apollo. Great for bittering but also a super citrusy grapefruit flavor and aroma when used in a hopstand and dry hopping. I did a citrus bomb IPA with Cascade/Citra/Apollo that is one of my all-time favorites. Then my go-to yeast is Wyeast 1010 American Wheat. Play round with the hops for the bitterness, favor and aroma you want.

 

[giraffe]

Out of my arse:

1.055: 50% white wheat, 50% domestic pils. (or 45% pils 5% munich). mash at 152. Reach a ph of 5.3 with gypsum over cacl2. shoot for 35 ibu, mostly late additions; add 2-3 oz of your favorite c type hops over last 15min. chinook, centennial, cascade, simcoe, etc. ferment with a kolsch or alt yeast (or the american wheat yeast (widmer), which was an alt yeast, or us-05 if you are feeling boring. Id use wlp029 at 65 degrees.

(edit: above was posted while i was posting. I dont really make this style much, id go with their advice)

 

[heckofagator]

Sorry about not responding - I guess I forgot to set a thread reminder.

Anyway, assuming I went with something like 55% 2-row, 45% wheat, 10% Munich

can you recommend a hops schedule that might fit nicely with this? I don't have a lot of experience with developing a hops schedule.

 

[hopstupid]

Try this recipe

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/can-you-brew-recipe-lagunitas-little-sumpin-sumpin-218399/

one of the best

 

[heckofagator]

thanks. That's a pretty crazy amount of hops!

 

[joshesmusica]

hi, have you ever tried boulevard's 80-acre hoppy wheat? it's one of my favorite beers of all time. if you can, get your hands on that. anyways, i emailed them directly for a recipe. you may have to correspond back and forth with that brewery, because usually they'll just give you what ingredients they used, but without the actual percentages. and usually they will have a house strain that isn't available for commercial use. but you can at least ask for what the equivalent is.
anyways, here's the recipe for the 80-acre hoppy wheat straight from boulevard (the only part I didn't get from them was exactly how much hops they used in the boil. they did give me the amount of dry hops. so for the hops in the boil, i just went with my tastes on the IBUs, which you could adjust to your taste as well):

Batch Size (fermenter): 19.00 l
Bottling Volume: 18.17 l
Estimated OG: 1.051 SG
Estimated Color: 6.9 EBC
Estimated IBU: 37.9 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 71.6 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
1.50 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) US (3.9 EBC) Grain 1 37.5 %
0.80 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (3.9 EBC) Grain 2 20.0 %
0.70 kg Wheat, Flaked (3.2 EBC) Grain 3 17.5 %
5.00 g Bravo [15.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 11.5 IBUs
5.00 g Summit [17.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 12.7 IBUs
5.00 g Zeus [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 10.4 IBUs
5.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 7 0.8 IBUs
10.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 20.0 Hop 8 2.5 IBUs
1.0 pkg Nottingham (Danstar #-) [23.66 ml] Yeast 9 -
1.00 kg Extra Light Dry Extract (5.9 EBC) Dry Extract 10 25.0 %
15.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
11.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 12 0.0 IBUs
8.00 g Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Da Hop 13 0.0 IBUs

i do partial mash, so this recipe is geared toward that.

 

[heckofagator]

Actually stopped by the store last nite and picked up a bottle of Sumpin Sumpin and the 80 acre. Both were good, for sure, but I think I'd like the hops more in the Sumpin Sumpin. The recipe has a bunch of hops, so I'm guessing that will add up pretty quick for the supplies.

 

[hopstupid]

here is the podcast from the show on how to brew it

http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/705

It's one of my favorite ipas that's mass produced. Has just the right amount of sweetness and so fruity fresh, from the hops lots of citrus, especially lots of orange.