Pic heavy - My Golden American Wheat Ale Beer Recipe

[CrealCritter]

Looks like you enjoyed it!

Yes I did I added crystal wheat to the grain bill for body, flavor and head retention and it worked very nicely. The head lasted all the way to the last swallow, which is what I was after.

I must admit though, it was odd pouring from a bottle that weighs more empty than the beer weighs itself. I bottled in those old thick glass bar deposit bottles, that I was lucky to get a hold of.

I'm completely happy with my recipe now, i don't plan on any changes. This will be my house brew, from here on out.

I'm going to wait until next week and take a few bottles to my buddy who owns the BBQ joint and see if he wants to make it his restaurant brew. It should go well with smoked pork butt. I suspect It's a little strong (alcohol) for restaurant brew, but I can adjust the ABV down by the amount of pure cane sugar I added to the recipe. I used pure cane sugar because I can tell if corn sugar or sryup was used in the primary ferment, since it almost instantly gives me a headache. I know they say the yeast eats all the sugar but I know better... or my head knows better

 

[CrealCritter]

Yum! You need one of these t-shirts, lol!


(pic credit to Google)

I NEED that shirt

 

[CrealCritter]

Part 3 (10 file per post limit)

 

[CrealCritter]

Day 8 - racked into secondary to finish fermenting and clear as much as possible, before bottling. Wheat will never totally clear it's the nature of this style of beer. Most commercial wheats are filtered to clear and kill off the yeast and then artificially carbonated with CO2 gas.

 

[CrealCritter]

Day 11 / day 4 in secondary. Clearing out nicely, most likely will bottle Saturday or Sunday. That's about right... 1 week in primary, 1 week in secondary, 2 weeks in the bottle.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Looks like you enjoyed it!

 

[CrealCritter]

So good like liquid bread. Easy drinker, I need to limit myself to 1 a day.

 

[creativetwinszoo]

The finished product looks super scrumptious and pretty! If we give it a go I'll have to try some when housespouse is sipping it

 

[creativetwinszoo]

Sweet! Oooh those look really nice too!! Id be lying if I said winemaking wasn't on the interest list too