My attempt at a Weisenbock(-ish) beer. Recipe as follows. All hops are whole leaf, and this is a 5.5 gallon batch
8# Munton's wheat LME
2# Munton's Amber DME
1.25# Crystal
.3# chocolate malt
.3# debittered black patent
3oz Saaz 3.5% @ 60min
1oz Fuggles 5.3% @ 10min
Irish moss at 15 minutes
Pitched onto the yeast cake of my hefe, which was using WYeast #3333 (German wheat).
I brewed this one last night. I broke my hydrometer, so I took a sample, added just a tiny bit of bleach (to stop fermentation), and set it aside. This morning it had a bit (less than a quarter inch) of foam on it, so I guess I should have added a bit more. When I finally got a reading on it, it was 1.091. I'm guessing then that this was about 1.093-095 originally. I would have needed a new hydrometer anyway, as my old one only went up to 1.080
I also had to buy a blowoff at the homebrewing store while I was there, as the combination of pitching my wort onto a good, healthy yeast cake and having a high gravity (ie, lots of sugar) wort to be fermented resulted in my airlock popping out.
Next Sunday I'm going to throw half of this batch into an empty 3 gallon fermenter, and half onto a 3 gallon fermenter with 1.5lbs of rasberries. I'd consider adding more, however that might get the alcohol percentage a little too high.
8# Munton's wheat LME
2# Munton's Amber DME
1.25# Crystal
.3# chocolate malt
.3# debittered black patent
3oz Saaz 3.5% @ 60min
1oz Fuggles 5.3% @ 10min
Irish moss at 15 minutes
Pitched onto the yeast cake of my hefe, which was using WYeast #3333 (German wheat).
I brewed this one last night. I broke my hydrometer, so I took a sample, added just a tiny bit of bleach (to stop fermentation), and set it aside. This morning it had a bit (less than a quarter inch) of foam on it, so I guess I should have added a bit more. When I finally got a reading on it, it was 1.091. I'm guessing then that this was about 1.093-095 originally. I would have needed a new hydrometer anyway, as my old one only went up to 1.080
I also had to buy a blowoff at the homebrewing store while I was there, as the combination of pitching my wort onto a good, healthy yeast cake and having a high gravity (ie, lots of sugar) wort to be fermented resulted in my airlock popping out.
Next Sunday I'm going to throw half of this batch into an empty 3 gallon fermenter, and half onto a 3 gallon fermenter with 1.5lbs of rasberries. I'd consider adding more, however that might get the alcohol percentage a little too high.