I'm fairly new to brewing. Mostly mini mash extract kits. I'm thinking about brewing a wheat hybrid using a wheat lme (60 percent 2row 40 percent red wheat) 5 lbs, 2 lbs 2row and 1 lbs crystal 20L. I plan to use 2 oz of cascade hops. Can I use safale 05 yeast or do I need to use a yeast for a wheat beer?any help would be awesome
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aiptasia
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Safale 05 will work fine but it will have different flavor characteristics than a true witbier yeast. It's a clean fermenting west coast style pale ale yeast.
aiptasia
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At those ratios, you'd be using 5 lbs 2 row (3 lbs. LME, 2 lbs grain), 2 lbs. red wheat LME and 1 lb. crystal 20.
I'm estimating your OG at 1.054, the color at 6.2 SRM and the est. ABV at 5.2% for a 5 gallon batch. The IBU's are going to depend on your use of the cascade hops, but i'd lean on using a little for bittering (say .75 oz) and using a lot for late addition hops, say 2 ounces at flameout for a hops soak and 1 ounce dry hop a week prior to bottling.
I'm estimating your OG at 1.054, the color at 6.2 SRM and the est. ABV at 5.2% for a 5 gallon batch. The IBU's are going to depend on your use of the cascade hops, but i'd lean on using a little for bittering (say .75 oz) and using a lot for late addition hops, say 2 ounces at flameout for a hops soak and 1 ounce dry hop a week prior to bottling.
