Beewrangler63
Active Member
Brewed a 3.5 gallon batch Hefe yesterday using Edwort's Bavarian Hefe recipe. I deviated from the normal percentage of wheat malt, and went with 50% wheat and 50% spelt in it's place, just for a change of taste. I used WLP 300, same pitch rate as I used on same recipe in the past in a 6.5 gal big mouth bubbler. Airlock started bubbling around 5 hours in and I went to bed content that I was on my way to another good Hefe. Woke up this morning to find that my airlock was somewhere in a cloud of foam and I had quite the mess on the table that the fermenter was sitting on. I pulled the airlock, sanitized a blow off tube and its now thumping away in a bucket of star san. Normally, I have gotten by with just an airlock doing a 3.5 gallon batch in a 6.5 gallon fermenter using the 30% head space rule. I have about 25 batches under my belt doing my beers BIAB and have never seen such a violent ferment using the same yeast and just wheat in the recipe. Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience using Spelt in a recipe?
