Protein rest? cont.

[joelr]

First off. Thank tou to everyone who answered my question on the other thread i started. The original recipe I was gonna try was Austin Homebrews Blue Moon Clone. But with the protein rest in it everyone figured it wasnt a good AG brew to start off as a first. So does anyone think maybe the Beirmuncher AG Blue Moon Clone recipe would be a better recipe to start with? Heres the link to that recipe. And if anyone has any suggestions or anything I should do that would help me along with it let me know.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f71/blue-balls-belgian-wit-blue-moon-clone-24978/

Thanks

 

[Nateo]

Anytime you're using a large amount of raw wheat, you should use a beta-glucan rest. If you don't, you're in for a sticky mess. There's a reason museums use wheat starch as glue.

Using a simple step infusion isn't hard at all. It just takes a small amount of math (or a calculator such as this one: http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/infusion.html) and a thermometer to verify your temps.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

I just bottled my second Blue moon clone. The first was delicious, and very easy to do

5 lbs 2 row
4 lbs white wheat malt
1 lb flaked oats ( I use quaker oats)
.5lb rice hulls
mashed for 60 mins at 154, double batch sparged
1 oz hallertau @ 60 mins
.17 oz ground coriander at 15 mins
.5 oz valencia orange peel @ 5 mins ( buy the bottled stuff in the spice section)
pitch s-05 yeast let ferment 2 weeks then transferred to secondary and cold crashed.

I used a recipe from here with some tweaking via PM with wayne1 .