American Honey-Wheat Ale

[GrantLee63]

Here is one that I made yesterday and will have on draft as soon as one of my kegs is emptied (which won't be long!) Should be a nice summer ale.

Here it is cut and pasted from my BeerSmith file:

American Honey Wheat
American Wheat

Type: All Grain
Date: 5/5/2007
Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Brewer: GrantLee63
Boil Size: 7.72 gal Asst Brewer: Joey Derkos
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: My Equipment
Taste Rating(out of 50): 0.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0
Taste Notes: TBD

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
1.00 lb Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) Adjunct 10.0 %
4.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 40.0 %
4.00 lb Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 40.0 %
1.50 oz Tettnang [4.50%] (60 min) Hops 25.5 IBU
1.00 lb Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 10.0 %
1 Pkgs American Hefeweizen Ale (White Labs #WLP320) [Starter 600 ml] Yeast-Wheat

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.047 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.052 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.013 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.014 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.5 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: TBD
Bitterness: 25.5 IBU Calories: 232 cal/pint
Est Color: 3.2 SRM Color: Color

Mash Profile

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Full Body Total Grain Weight: 9.00 lb
Sparge Water: 6.23 gal Grain Temperature: 72.0 F
Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F TunTemperature: 72.0 F
Adjust Temp for Equipment: TRUE Mash PH: 5.4 PH

Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 11.25 qt of water at 166.8 F 152.0 F 60 min

Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time).
Carbonation and Storage

Carbonation Type: Kegged (Forced CO2) Volumes of CO2: 2.7

Notes

Add 1 pound of Wildflower honey to boil kettle with 5 minutes to go.

84.4% Calculated Efficiency !!!

 

[richard lambert]

Re: priming with honey

GL just got my tun set up and want to do the honey wheat. My question is if I decide to prime my bottles with honey in sted of corn sugar how much honey per gallon would I need. Or is this a stupid Idea? By the way the wild honey ale is marvelous. thanks for the share RL

 

[GrantLee63]

Hi Richard,

The Honey-Wheat Ale I made is a really good beer - it has a nice fruity ester aroma, a classic wheat beer 'cloudiness' to it, a very nice malted wheat flavor with associated 'graininess', and it is very, very smoooooooth! I made mine in time for my son's 30th surprise birtday party and it was a big hit with the 25-30 beer drinkers that attended. As a matter of fact, I just finished a 22 ounce pilsner glass full with my lunch today, and I'm glad I took the day off as the 5.7% ABV kinda' snuck up on me!

Regarding your question about priming with honey, I only tried honey once to prime my very first batch of mead in Grolsch bottles and I was not happy with the results. I've never tried it in beer, but the 5 or 6 batches that I've bottled with corn sugar have all come out great with regard to proper carbonation levels.

Check out this thread from the NB Forum:

http://tinyurl.com/25h6xk

Good luck with your Honey-Wheat - I'm sure you're going to enjoy it!