Please help me brew this!

[cwwillmon]

Looking to do a BIAB American Hefeweizen. I only have a 7.5 gal pot. Small I know..

Does anyone know of a recipe that is scaled for this setup??

 

[Remos112]

You could scale any recipe to fit that pot, but most around are for 5 gallon batches already, that should fit perfectly in your pot with room to spare for a vigerous boil.

 

[Remos112]

Never brewed this one myself but:
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/212048/american-hefeweizen

 

[Lefou]

Never brewed this one myself but:
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/212048/american-hefeweizen

Looks like a fairly solid Hefeweizen recipe, though I tend to keep my starting gravities closer to 1.045-1.050 with wheat beers. With WLP320, you won't get as much of the clove phenols associated with the Bavarian hefe yeasts. I used Hallertau hops for less bitterness and substituted malted white wheat. If you can get your BU/GU ratio to .4 and use a low to mid-range AAU hop, your beer will be less sweet as 320 has a tendency to leave sugars behind. Be sure to use a blow-off tube during fermentation because the yeast is vigorous and produces a lot of gas.

 

[soccerdad]

You can scale any 5G recipe to 3G by diving the grain bill by 5 and then multiplying by 3. Should have no prob mashing that in a 7.5G kettle at full volume. You can scale the hops as well, but leave the yeast as is .. it won't be an overpitch. And if you like hoppy beers, just leave those as well.

 

[chickypad]

If you want to do a full 5 gal batch in that pot you can also dunk sparge in a bucket rather than mashing the full volume. After the mash drain, dunk the bag in the bucket and stir the crap out of it, then drain again and add to the pot. A very basic American wheat recipe that is a good lawnmower beer is 50/50 2 row and wheat malt, to about 1.050-1.055, bittered and finished with something like perle, hallertau, liberty to about 23 IBU's. I like WY1010 but you can also use any neutral ale yeast or the 320 mentioned above. As Lefou pointed out you won't get banana/clove with these, which I assume is what you want as you said American style.

 

[Lefou]

I think Vermont's Magic Hat makes their low IBU version done with 320 called Circus Boy. I like WLP 320 and will use it again. Wasn't impressed with Circus Boy as my taste runs more to Weihenstephan's style. Given the right balance of hops and malt, though, a US hefe can be pretty good.