American Wheat Beer Recipe - Lemon Summer Wheat

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Lemon Summer Wheat

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All Grain
5 Gallon(s)
6.5 Gallon(s)
60 min
63%
Juice of 3 lemons added to the boil. Honey added with 5 minutes left in the boil. Lemon zest soaked in vodka to sanitize. Vodka drained off and lemon zest only added to primary fermenter after one week. It is left in until fermentation is complete. Filter it off before bottling.

Fermentables

45% - White Wheat - US
5
40
2
Mash
36% - 2-Row - US
4
37
1
Mash
5% - Honey Malt - CA
0.5
37
25
Mash
5% - Honey - US
0.5
35
1
Late
9% - Munich Light - CA
1
34
10
Mash

Hops

Tettnang
1
Pellet
Boil
60 min(s)
4.5
16.5

Yeast

White Labs Belgian Wit Ale WLP400
78%

Other Stuff

Orange or Lemon peel
3
each
Primary

Mash Steps

Mash
Decoction
152
60 min

Special Instructions

1.
Sparge with 2 gallons of 170F water
2.
Fermentation between 65 and 70F for 14 days.
3.
Priming in bottle with 2/3 cup of sucrose dissolved in one liter of boiling water.

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Comments

  • nwilcox1222

    Did not have a high enough efficiency during mash/sparge. Will need to tweek my process to get more sugars out.

    5/26/2020 7:55:32 AM

Recipe Facts

Lemon Summer Wheat
American Wheat Beer
  • 5.00 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 6.50 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 60  min Boil Time
  • 1.054 OG
  • 1.012 FG
  • 16.5 IBU (tinseth) Bitterness
  • 0.31 BG:GU
  • 5.9° SRM Color
  • 63% Efficiency
  • 5.4% ABV Alcohol
  • 180 per 12oz Calories
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