Brewing this one today with one modification--3/4 a pound of victory malt. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Thanks. Yeah it's 2015 bjcp.
I'm anticipating this will be my second competition and my 2nd-9th entries.
I brewed this up about 10 days ago. I'm going to sample and move to keg tonight.
My question is: Why the dry-hop? Wouldn't that make this more of an APA? Reason I am asking, is because I wanted to enter it as an American Wheat.
By the way, the sample tastes and smells while brewing were fantastic!
Cheers!
I entered this as an American wheat in a competition that I just got the results back from. It got gold in it's category.
I tried my first one last night, after two weeks in the bottle. I usually like to wait 3 weeks, but I really wanted to try one before Passover starts. It was decent, but I felt like it was missing a little something. Hoping the flavor will round out a bit with more time.
oh wow! That is amazing! congrats!
It takes some skill to write a recipe, but it takes a good brewer to make said beer great and gold in this case! so congrats to you and your brewing skillz!
Sorry to hear about that! Let us know how it turns out in the end. Maybe we can toss our heads together and figure out what had happened.
Any need to add rice hulls to this recipe?
Anyone find that the honey malt is excessive?
I think it depends on your system. I've seen recipes where brewers said they didn't use rice hulls in wheat beers, and they were fine. But my system gets stuck when I don't, so I will always use them if the malt bill is any more than a pound of wheat for a 5 gal batch. It's cheap insurance, and shouldn't have any adverse effect on the final beer.
Just wanted to say that I've been brewing this recipe since last summer and every time I make it I'm so thrilled that such a tasty beer can be made with so few ingredients. Excellent recipe!
I brewed this recipe 2 weeks ago and kegged last night. Going by the sample I took, this is going to be a fantastic beer for the Austin summer. I ended up moving the 15 minute hop addition to around the 8 minute mark to get my IBUs closer to 25 (my hops were 11.3% AA and I was over 30 IBUs in beersmith with the original recipe). I think this helped in my case, since the malt and honey character was definitely there, along with the tasty mosaic hop flavor. Thanks for the great recipe - can't wait until this one is ready to be tapped!
Modified this recipe a bit to make it a sub 1.045 beer for a "lawnmower" beer home brew club competition. I entered it as a session apa as I dry hopped it and it was young at the point the competition so the hops hadn't mellowed at all. The hop profile early on was far more reminiscent of citra grapefruit then tropical berry mosaic. But as the beer has aged over the month it's all mosaic and more enjoyable in my opinion. The beer scored a 38 & 40 and won silver.
here is my biab 3.5 gallon batch notes:
O.G. 1.044 25 IBU (tinseth)
2.55# (1158g) US 2-row
2.55# (1158g) White Wheat Malt
.64# (290g) Gambrinus Honey Malt
60m .2 oz (5g) Mosaic 11.7%
15m .5 oz (14.5g) Mosaic
hop stand for 30m at 150-160° 1.4oz (39g) Mosaic
Dryhop in primary for 4 days .7oz (19.5g)
I used the white Labs american Hefe yeast betwen 68 - 70° which I think added minimal if any character I just happened to not have a pack 05 in the fridge at the time or I would have used it.
I brewed it 5/15 the competition was on 6/11 A I think the beer started to peak about a week ago.
Thanks for the recipe!
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