WATERMELON WEISSE

Source: CHARLIE MORRIS
Recipe added: 02/10/97
Email: charlie@montrealnet.net

-this beer won "BEST OF SHOW" in competion.

Specifics

Recipe type: Extract
Batch Size: 15l.
Starting Gravity: 1.043
Finishing Gravity: 1.006
Time in Boil: 30min.
Primary Fermentation: 6 days
Secondary Fermentation: 2weeks
Additional Fermentation: in bottle(1 month min.)

Ingredients:

1,5kgs.BREWFERM Wheatbeer kit
,6kgs. dextrose
9kg. whole watermelon
25g.fresh ginger
30g. Hallertauer(15g. bittering,15g. finishing)
5g.Willamette(dry)
1tsp. gypsum
2/3 tsp. irish moss
ale yeast
1 cup dextrose(primer)

Procedure:

-Boil ingredients 30min.(excluding watermelon) in 8l. of water. -Add irish moss 15min. before end oif boil -finishing hopsat 3min. before end of boil -steep mashed(crushed) watermelon at 65-83 deg.C. by adding it to the wort. -add water to make 17l. -rack after 6days,seed & pulp will remian in primary -bottle with 1cup dextrose -age 1month

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