American Wheat Beer Recipe - Honey Weizen

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Honey Weizen

by on
All Grain
5.5 Gallon(s)
6 Gallon(s)
60 min
70%
All Grain American Wheat Beer homebrew recipe. This homebrew recipe uses the following ingredients: 2-Row - US, Wheat - US, Honey - US, Carapils - DE, Styrian Goldings Hops, Hallertau Hops, Hersbrucker Hops, Wyeast Weihenstephan Weizen 3068 Homebrew Yeast.

Fermentables

43% - 2-Row - US
5
36
2
Mash
35% - Wheat - US
4
39
3
Mash
17% - Honey - US
2
35
1
Late
4% - Carapils - DE
0.5
33
2
Mash

Hops

Styrian Goldings
1
Pellet
Boil
15 min(s)
5.3
8.9
Hallertau
1
Pellet
Boil
60 min(s)
4.5
15.2
Hersbrucker
1
Pellet
Boil
30 min(s)
14.5
37.6

Yeast

Wyeast Weihenstephan Weizen 3068
82%

Other Stuff

No other stuff in this recipe

Mash Steps

No mash steps in this recipe

Special Instructions

No special instructions in this recipe

Tasting Notes (4)

Browniebuck

Tasted on 3/23/2013 by Browniebuck

Notes:

Pale, straw-like color. Moderately dense wheat haze. Definite banana esters. Some breadiness evident. Little hop aroma. Tart, citrusy, grapefruit like flavor. Some banana flavor with a small amount of hop presence in the finish. Finish is also dry but refreshing. Medium light mouthfeel, 'spritzy' and refreshing. A pale, light bodies, fruity and refreshing wheat beer.

Browniebuck

Tasted on 3/17/2013 by Browniebuck

Notes:

Straw colored, hazy wheat appearance as expected Banana esters, somewhat muted from the secondary but still present. Pleasant and fruity. Initial fruitiniess. I detect a citrusy, grapefruit like flavor, whether that's from the yeast or the hops I can't really say. Despite steeping 3 ounces of hops there's very little hop presence notable in the finished product. Carbonation is still low. Alcohol is noticed on the backside and not at all forward, doesn't mask any of the flavor. Very light with a touch of tartness present. A good refreshing beer. This beer has turned out as well as I thought it would. I have a slurry of the Weiheinstephan 3068 in the refrigerator in the hopes that we can do another wheat beer of some variation closer to summer. This is going to be a lot better once the carbonation hits the right leve.

Browniebuck

Tasted on 2/20/2013 by Browniebuck

Notes:

Cloudy, almost opaque upon racking to secondary Strong aromas of bananas and cloves from German ale yeast. Fruity esters, mainly bananas and clove, some noticeable hop bitterness. Light to medium light. This beer is coming along nicely for a four day old batch. I'll leave this in the secondary for a week or so and bottle around the first of March. I expect FG to be slightly lower after secondary is complete, just because fermentation seems to pick up ever so slightly when batches are racked off to the carboy.

Browniebuck

Tasted on 2/16/2013 by Browniebuck

Notes:

Sampled post boil wort after cooled down to 80 degrees F. Initially dense haze. Hop trub settled out after serveral minutes and settled into the cloudy appearance expected. Strong honey aroma and floral, citrusy notes from hops Dominant sweetness from the honey with a notable bitterness from hops. After settling for several more minutes, hop bitterness was more subdued. Crisp but full. Initial impression is one of a sweet beer with dry finish and light body, some bitterness in aftertaste.

Comments

  • Brewdaddy

    Why so hoppy?

    3/18/2013 2:25:40 PM
  • Browniebuck

    This was actually a kit that I had bought. The hallertau and goldings came with the kit. The hersbrucker was left over from a previous recipe and had been sitting around for awhile with nothing to do. It was one of impulse moments to clean up my inventory and add the hersbrucker in the mix. My initial impressions from tasting are that the additional hops didn't come off too strongly. I would caution, however, that I do my hop additions in muslin bags instead of just throwing into the brew kettle. As a result my IBU's typically come out much lower than calculated.

    3/19/2013 12:06:28 PM
  • Brewdaddy

    Also kit hops are rarely fresh... Nice though, I'm glad it came out well.

    3/19/2013 2:04:43 PM

Recipe Facts

Honey Weizen
American Wheat Beer
  • 5.50 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 6.00 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 60  min Boil Time
  • 1.058 OG
  • 1.010 FG
  • 61.6 IBU (brewgr) Bitterness
  • 1.07 BG:GU
  • 4.2° SRM Color
  • 70% Efficiency
  • 6.1% ABV Alcohol
  • 191 per 12oz Calories
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