Red Wheat Ale

Classification: wheat beer, weizen, weissbier, all-grain

Source: Larry Barello (uunet!polstra!larryba) rec.crafts.brewing, 9/21/92

This is my most recent favorite all-grain recipe.

Brown/Golden ale. Light, refreshing and a nice aroma of chocolate malt for interest. Could be made with extracts by using 1 can each of pale malt and wheat extract syrup (or powder). Easy drinking beer.

Ingredients:

3 pounds, pale malt
3 pounds, wheat malt
4 ounces, medium crystal (~40L)
1 ounce, chocolate malt
1/3 ounce, Chinook Pellets for 45 minutes (4 HBU)
1/2 ounce, Cascade Pellets for 20 (2.5 HBU)
1/2 ounce, Tettnanger Pellets for 10 minutes
Whitbread ale yeast

Procedure:

Treat 7 gallons water with 1/4 ounce gypsum. Mash in 8 quarts at 170F for a target of 156F. When beer is fermented, prime with 1/2 cup sugar, fine with 1/2 teaspoon of gelatin, keg or bottle.

Specifics:

O.G.: 1.040
F.G.: 1.015