Questions tagged [wheat-beer]
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Extract American Wheat Specialty Grain recommendations?
I'm planning on brewing an American Wheat Ale with extract soon and looking for advice on specialty grains. I'm reading suggestions to not use any specialty grains, but I thought I'd see if anyone had ...
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What ingredients should I use for a grocery home brew?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I've decided to burn some time by trying out my first home brew. It has come with many challenges though. I do not have access to barley other than pearled barley, which ...
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
I'm brewing an imperial wit beer and it seems i have a problem with my wort beeing stuck in fermentation at 1.040.
My wort is wheat extract 3.4kg and 1kg candi sugar, steeped with some oat flakes, ...
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How should I determine a ratio between malts?
I am new to the home brewing community and have a question regarding some malts I am using on my next batch.
After using a few beer kits from Brewers Best, I am taking a spin at trying to gather my ...
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Apricot wheat ale extract recipe – advice and opinions
This is my first recipe design! I've brewed a couple of extract and all-grain batches, with moderate success. This time around I will be trying to clone an apricot wheat ale. The original is a very ...
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Very light golden hazy beer with citrus flavour
It is my first home brew. The batch size was 10ltr. I used 100% wheat malt of 2 kgs and used bitter orange peel of 36gm instead of Hop. The OG was1.02 and FG is 1.01 after 14 days of fermentation ...
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Adding Orange and/or Corriander to Secondary
I just brewed a witbier. After tasting it out of the primary it doesn't quite have the taste I'm looking for. I'd like to add some orange and/or coriander to the secondary, but I'm not sure how long ...
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Hefeweizen final gravity too high
I started my Hefeweizen with a OG of 1.054 and used Wyeast 3068. The wort was well aerated but after 3 weeks my gravity is still 1.020 which seems a little high. The gravity reading I took a week ago ...
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What to do when american wheat ale turned out to have too high extract?
I used to have a problem - too much water due to extracting every last bit of sugar. That gave me 90% to 95% efficiency, but also it was a lot of work to boil it down to manageable and usable amounts ...
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What hop will give me grapefruit-like aroma?
I'll be making American Wheat beer this weekend. Simple malt bill - half wheat, half barley. I'm planning to use Chinook for bitterness. What would go well with it's resin and "coniferous forest" ...
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A recipe for a winter version of a wheat beer?
I brewed a great american wheat beer over the summer, and got to thinking about winter brew time.
Is there such a thing as a dark wheat beer?
I see a few recipes on brewtoad but not much. It doesnt ...
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Alcoholic RootBeer [duplicate]
My Goal is to make a root beer with a ABV similar to your everyday beer or maybe stronger. (4-10%) I am newer to homebrewing so most of my experience comes from using Kits. My approach was going to be ...
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Sweetening a tart fruit beer?
So I'm doing a first attempt at a Blackberry Wheat beer, per a request from a co-worker. All seems to be fine and good, however before I went to bottle I tasted it and, not unexpectedly, it is a ...
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Optimum Fermentation Temperature
I am planning on brewing a wheat beer with Danstar Munich Wheat Beer Dry Yeast. I didn't realize until I had already made the purchase that the optimum temperature for fermentation was 55-65. I don't ...
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So I want to make a summer shandy, can I just put fruit in the second fermentation stage instead of juice?
So I was told I can add lemonade or orange juice to my wheat beer to make a summer shandy, can I just put fruit in the second fermentation stage instead?
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