American Honey Wheat

Source: Dave Frombach
Recipe added: 01/09/01
Email: frombach@home.com

A nice cross between a Hefe and a Honey ale. Even your commercial beer drinking friends will love it !!

Specifics

Recipe type: Partial Mash
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Starting Gravity: 1.056
Finishing Gravity: 1.008
Time in Boil: 60 min.
Primary Fermentation: 7 days
Secondary Fermentation: 7 days
Additional Fermentation: 3 weeks bottle carbonation

Ingredients:

3 lbs. dry wheat malt extract (55/45)
3 lbs. fireweed honey
1 lb. 2 row pale malt
1 1/2 lbs. wheat malt
1/2 lb. honey malt
1 1/2 oz hallertau hops (60 min)
1/2 os hallertau hops (last 5 min)
1056 American Ale yeast

Procedure:

Single step mash of the grains in 3 quarts of water at 152 for one hour. Sparge with 6 more quarts at 170. Add this to 3 gallons of water along with the extract and honey and boil for one hour using the listed hop schedule. (Irish moss, aireate, and yeast pitch per your own style.)

Back to previous Table of Contents