Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: White Labs WLP 002 English Ale - [I used Wyeast 1968 London ESB because that is what my LHBS has.]
Yeast Starter: Yes - [I used one yeast smack pack.]
Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: None
Batch Size (Gallons): 6
Original Gravity: 17.15 plato
Final Gravity: (didn't get the FG, sorry**) IBU: 60
Boiling Time (Minutes): 90 - [I boiled 60 min]
Primary*Fermentation (# of Hours & Temp): 36 hours @ 65, 36 hours @ 68, allow to finish @ 70 Secondary*Fermentation: Dry hop 7-14 days [I dry hopped for 5 days]
Tasting Notes: None
3.68 kg Domestic 2-row (50%) (Lagunitas uses Rahr 2-row Pale)
2.77 kg Malted Wheat (37.60%)
90 g Toasted Wheat (1.20%) 830 g -
[Note: I used white malted Wheat and toasted it in the oven on a cookie sheet @400 deg F for 5min. It toasted WAY faster than I expected!]
Torrified (Puffed) Wheat (11.20%) (Lagunitas uses Crisp Torrified Wheat) 1lb*Rice*Hulls added to improve flow (Gypsum added to boil using soft water) Single infusion 45 min @ 150 degrees [I mashed 60min @ 150deg F]
Hop Additions
@90 min 11 g Nugget 9% AA [I added at 60 min becuase i only did a 60 min boil]
2 g Horizon 12%
2 g Summit 17.5%
@45 min
8 g Wilamette 5.2%
@15 min
27 g Santiam 5.6%
9 g Wilamette 5.2%
Dry Hop Additions
Cascade 24 g
Centennial 24 g
Simcoe 24 g
Chinook 24 g
Columbus*15 g
Amarillo 18 g
This is the recipe I used and it turned out awesome! All the hops makes it an expensive brew to make but we'll worth it.
I have a problem every time I do a wheat beer with a lot of sediment floating in the wort. On this batch it actually clogged the bazooka tube in my boil kettle and I had to siphon with a grain bag over the siphon. Not sure what the sediment is (maybe one of you can tell) but I would like to figure out how to get rid of it. It does settle out in primary but it makes a mess in boil, cooling and transfer.
I did a side by side with the Lagunitas and mine was a bit darker and more cloudy than their's. I think it was due to over toasting the white wheat. Next time I will toast at a lower temp (350). The flavor was almost exactly the same but mine was a bit sweeter, and a bit more hop aroma.