kiggsy wrote:I would:
1)Boil your water 20-23L
2)add the malt and corn syrup
3)let it sit at a rolling boil until it starts to boil over, keep an eye on it.
4) when it will boil with no foam add the honey.
5) throw the hops in and boil for another 15 minutes.
6) take it off the heat and cool it as quickly as possible(ice bath or wort chiller)
7) when the temp is down transfer to your fermenter and throw in the yeast and let it ferment out.
The quicker way is to throw all the fermentables in some hot water and dissolve , top up to 20-23 L.
Soak the hop bag in some hot water and throw that into your fermenter with the yeast and let it ferment.
If the wheat malt is un hopped you won't get much bitterness from the hops. If it is ,the late addition of hops will freshen it up a bit.
Hope that helps.
bt1 wrote:For a specialist beer better of having a look at AHB as it's not a simple beer.
A few from memory of the cracks I've had at it.
Pasteurize honey =80c otherwise the enzymes in honey will make it a very thin drink with FA mouth feel.
Bulk prime keg/bottles with treated honey
The older the beer is the worst it tastes drink it young <4 months
.5 - 1kg is needed in fermenter, add the majority near end of fermentation
A real good Wheat lager yeast is needed and regardless you need to crash chill near end of fermentation to prevent yeast chewing out all residual honey flavours.. you want a higher FG here
A shortened diacetyl rest and lower ferment temps
Kit hops whilst present, will be over powered use a soft noble say tettnanger - personal pref.
I'd be using amber malt not light to get the golden colour actually (2 part amber wheat:1 part dark)
Having tried various Honey wheats I now use a trick picked up from the Bee Sting recipes of a few years back.... Via keg gas in post inject 300ml of honey prior to chilling for drinking...easy and tastes well fine.
Guess it depends on how much effort you want to expend on the whole recipe.
bt1
Dezza wrote:kiggsy wrote:I would:
1)Boil your water 20-23L
2)add the malt and corn syrup
3)let it sit at a rolling boil until it starts to boil over, keep an eye on it.
4) when it will boil with no foam add the honey.
5) throw the hops in and boil for another 15 minutes.
6) take it off the heat and cool it as quickly as possible(ice bath or wort chiller)
7) when the temp is down transfer to your fermenter and throw in the yeast and let it ferment out.
The quicker way is to throw all the fermentables in some hot water and dissolve , top up to 20-23 L.
Soak the hop bag in some hot water and throw that into your fermenter with the yeast and let it ferment.
If the wheat malt is un hopped you won't get much bitterness from the hops. If it is ,the late addition of hops will freshen it up a bit.
Hope that helps.
thanks for your advise.
i follow your instructions today with a few compromises.
i didnt have a pot big enough to fit 23 lts in so i boiled up the main ingredients in a smaller pot following your instructions.
i mixed the Morgan's golden sheaf wheat, which you never mentioned separately in the fermentor and hope this doesn't make much different anyway.
then added the rest as per your instructions.
i did add the yeast to a cup of the mixture but it never foamed up which surprised me.
i then added the cup with the yeast to the mix and now waiting for it to start bubbling.
hope it comes out well.
thanks again.
sp0rk wrote:So you have have frothiness on top?
When did you pitch the yeast?
Have you done a gravity check?
Ignore the airlock, it's not a reliable indicator of fermentation activity, trust your hydrometer/refractometer (whichever you're using)
tipsy wrote:That's fermenting well :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Close the lid :D
Sinerjee wrote:That looks like an infection to me...
SBB wrote:Dezza I know absolutely nothing about brewing beer, I have over the years thrown the odd can of goop into a fermented and then bottled, a small fraction of what I made was drinkable. Im thinking a Beez Kneez style beer might not be a good place to start as a beginner.
But then sometimes its fun to jump in at the deep end :D
Sinerjee wrote:That looks like an infection to me...
How well did you sanitise everything?
Also have you tasted the actual beer? Just pull a little bit out through the tap and sample it. If it tastes alright just bottle without getting any of the gunk into the bottles.
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