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Brewmutt's Wheat
February 16, 2010

Classification: Hefeweizen (Wheat)

Description

This is a simple but great tasting Hefeweizen recipe. Don’t let the simplicity fool you, some of the best beers are the easiest to brew.  It’s important to use the liquid yeast when doing wheat beers or they will not ferment true to style and will be missing the complex “clove” and “banana”spice flavors. Since wheat beers are usually hazy, we don’t use Irish Moss in the boil.

Ingredients

7 - lbs Wheat Malt
1 oz Hallertauer Hops (bittering) 1 hour (4–5 HBU)
1/2 oz Hallertauer Hops (finishing) last 3 minutes

White Labs WLP 300 Hefeweizen Yeast Or White Labs WLP 380 German Hefe Yeast or safale wb-06 dry wheat yeast

Instructions

Bring Water to a boil and add 7 lbs malt to brew pot. Stir while adding and when it comes back to a boil add 1 oz Hallertauer hops and boil for 55 minutes. Then add ½ oz of Hallertauer hops and boil 3 more minutes. Cool to 75F and pitch yeast.

Ratings & Comments

Weizen

Review by Ryan
Very good flavor, texture and nose however the beer is darker than a traditional weizen beer. Other than that it is great.

G

Review by Nate
regarding the color - is it a dunkel or helles weizen?

Best 1st homebrew

Review by Toby
I chose this as my first attempt at a homebrew. It couldn't have been any easier. Everyone that's tried it loves it. The color, aroma and flavor were perfect. I'll make this time and again.

Awsome

Review by Mike Boyer
This was my first attempt and it worked out great, 3 weeks in the fermenter and 2 weeks in the bottle. Great flavor, reminded me of Germany.

Great hefe

Review by Steve
Spent about 2 weeks in fermenter. Didn't use secondary fermentation. Tried first bottle after about a week, tastted phenomenal. I actually said "wow!" out loud after the first sip. Can't wait to try the rest after a couple of weeks of bottle conditioning. I used honey as the priming sugar and it came out great. A word of caution though: if you're heating up the honey with water, it boils over FAST. Keep an eye on it!

Hehe

Review by K
I loved this beer. I wouldn't change anything about the recipe.

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