German Honey Wheat

Source: Robert K. Tracy
Recipe added: 04/05/97
Email: rtracy@eagle.cc.ukans.edu
URL: http://eagle.cc.ukans.edu/~rtracy/html

After about one month in the bottle, this beer really had a fantastic character and refreshing tast with overtures of banana and clove. One of my favorite beers that I have brewed.

Specifics

Recipe type: Extract
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Starting Gravity: 1.052
Finishing Gravity: 1.008
Time in Boil: 1 hour 15 min
Primary Fermentation: 5 days
Secondary Fermentation: 2 weeks

Ingredients:

4lbs Wheat Malt Extract-Alexanders
1.4lbs Pale Malt Extract
1/2 lb carapils malt
1/2 lb aromatic malt
2lbs wildflower honey
1oz. Fuggle Pellet Hops 4.1% boil
1oz cascade flower hops 5.4% finish
Wyeast German Wheat Yeast 3068 liquid

Procedure:

steep grain for 30 min. at 145 degrees; add extract and bring to boil; add honey and bring to boil; add Fuggle Hops and boil for one hour; add cascade hops and boil for 5 min; cool rapidly and pitch yeast

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