wheat beer

[rogers2]

[cool] hi rog here just wondering has anyone made a wheat beer lately [rightful]

[Muddy Waters]

G'day Rog,

 

I've only made one wheat beer which I was hoping to beer similar to a Hoegaarden style (Haven't had a real Hoey for a while so I'm not sure how close it is [cool] ).

 

This tasted pretty good at 1 month and after 3 months in the bottle it is superb. It's back on my "To Brew" list and I don't think I'll make any changes.

 

This is what I used:

 

1.7kg Coopers Wheat Beer

1kg Dry Wheat Malt

15g Crushed coriander seed

3 Tbs Orange Zest

 

Made to 21L

 

Yeast: Safale WB-06 Wheat Yeast

 

Add the malt, coriander seed and orange zest to 2L of boiling water. Simmer for 15 mins and then strain in to your fermetor and add the Coopers Wheat goop and mix. Top it up to 21L and sprinkle on the WB-06 or wheat yeast of your choice.

 

Lovely! [biggrin]

[chrisf1]

Hi Guys,

 

I've Just made a batch of the Coopers Wheat Beer.

Used the recommended instructions on the can as it was my first try at the coopers wheat beer.

 

I have mine in a keg which i forced carbonated over 24 hrs.

First tasting was last night.

Very nice refreshing cloudy beer, Easy drinking, good taste and nice body.

Next time i will tweak it by adding a little orange zest.

The orange zest seems to be the go however the standard recipe is a good place to start. [happy]

 

[JaredW]

hi i also am wanting to try to brew my first weat beer and was curious as to how it tastes is it lightly flavoured with lots of fizz like i would imagine

[Muddy Waters]

Wheat beer is generally a pale, cloudy beer, refreshingly spritzy and tart with a delicious creamy frothiness. [whistling

 

[ninja]

[PB2]

Good words Muddy! Do you mind if I use them in the future?? [biggrin]

[OmarL]

Hello,

 

will it be any good if 1kg of BE2 is used instead of the LDM and dextrose?

and maybe made to 20 liters?

 

Omar

[PB2]

Should make a reasonable beer with BE2. Give it a go, Omar, and let us know how it went.[biggrin]

[OmarL]

i will do so.

as it is sold here with the advise to add the 1 kg of be2 anyway.

 

i am going to add some coriander seed, beeing an important ingredient of hoegaarden and wieckse witte anyway.

 

i'll keep you posted.

[OmarL]

i had a couple today and it is pretty good.

i added 2 teaspoons of coriander seeds and 1 kg be2 topped it to 23 liters, i'm happy with the result,i will make this again.i'll have a hoegaarden next to it for comparisson later.

 

important note: next time i'll use some sort of teabag to put the seeds in as now some of it clogged the filler tube. most of it will float on top, some will sink to the bottom and some float in between and go trough the tube!

[Muddy Waters]

Omar you should just boil the cracked coriander seed (and orange zest if you are going the Hoegaarden way) and then strain the liquid only into your fermentor.

 

You do need to crack the coriander to utilise the flavour.

[OmarL]

Hi Muddy,i actually put the seeds in a bowl and pressed them with a spoon a couple of times then boiled them for sterilisation mostly then i just dumped the lot in the fermentor [innocent]

next time i will know what (not) to do.

i am going to get me some dry wheat malt, like you suggest in your recept, for my next batch as that might hopefully give it a bit more of a creamy flavour which it lacks a bit compared to wieckse witte and hoegaarden.(to my taste)

all in all i am happy with the result and i will open up a couple more bottles for sure this weekend while enjoying the great summer weather we are having at the moment (25 to 27 degree C. yes , i know, thats like the most sh*tty temps in winter for you aussies LOL)

JaredW did you give it a try yet?

[Muddy Waters]

Hi Omar - It does get a bit colder than 25C here [biggrin]

 

I'm going to do another hoegaarden style beer but I'll use a liquid malt instead of the dry - not sure what difference it'll make but I have can here so I may as well use it. Last time I made this one it pretty good when young but hit perfection at the 3 month mark [love]

[LucasM]

I am in the process of making each coopers can kits using the Coopers Liquid Wheat Malt as I am very impressed with the creamy frothiness this malt produces. I have made the standard lager and the Sparkling Ale with the liquid wheat malt with some added hallatuar hops and the yeast from coopers pale ale. They're both really beautiful beers that go down way too easy. I am going to try it with the dark ale and the english bitter next. Any tips??

[OmarL]

@LucasM no tips from me yet.

 

@ muddy yeah,an ice age like 20C must realy suck right? LOL [biggrin]

i'm new to the beer making so i am stil working on my patience problem. this batch of wheat is not going to make it beyond the 1 month mark for sure but from the next batch i will put some aside.

keep us posted on the difference ,if any. cheers!

[Muddy Waters]

I am in the process of making each coopers can kits using the Coopers Liquid Wheat Malt as I am very impressed with the creamy frothiness this malt produces.

 

I made a very nice Golden Ale with the Sparkling Ale kit, a tin of wheat malt, and amarillo hops (15g @ 15 mins, 15g @ O mins and 25g dry hopped @ 7 days for 7 days).

 

[love]

 

 

 

[LucasM]

What yeast did you use?

[OmarL]

well, my wheat beer is gone.....and so is my cervesa!. i had a bbq at my place today and everyone who asked for a beer got offered a mexican or a wit(wheat) beer.they had it and were curious about the bottle and cap (coopers homebrew bottle & cap) then i told everyone i made it myself.

i got a a lot of compliments on the beer and everyone stayed on my homebrew eventhough i had plenty of my regular heineken and amstel (for secutity reasons lol) in the fridge [cool]

one of my friends wife (she loves wheat/wit beer) told her man to give this beermaking a go too as she said it was just as good as hoegaarden, so we may have a new collegue here.

 

[Trusty1]

I'm thinking of putting down a batch similar to Muddy's only with Coopers Pale Ale as the kit with a can of liquid wheat malt and also the addition of something else, trying to raise the ABV%.

 

Any tips on this one? Straight up Dex, or some thing else.

 

Thanks

[MatR1]

I'm thinking of putting down a batch similar to Muddy's only with Coopers Pale Ale as the kit with a can of liquid wheat malt and also the addition of something else, trying to raise the ABV%.

 

Any tips on this one? Straight up Dex, or some thing else.

 

Thanks

 

If you are doing the GA recipe you can add 250grms of crystal. This would make it the same as a well known recipe from another forum (using Sparkling). You may also want to up your hop additions to balance the lower IBU of the PA can. Ferment with US05.

[weggl]

Muddy, is that WB-06 yeast the one that comes with the wheat can?

How do you recko it would go with Dried Wheat malt and what hops to use seeing that it would have no hops because the can would not be used.

Maybe Paul would know?

Warren

[Muddy Waters]

Nope, the WB-06 is a fermentis wheat yeast. Not sure what you are aiming to do? Do you want to make an extract yeast beer?

 

The WB-06 is suited to most (if not all?) wheat beers.

[Biermoasta]

On the topic of WB-06... i've got a packet in the fridge, planning on using it to create a Hefe Wei\xdfbier (Weizen). Anyone know what fermentation temperature will produce an authentic Bavarian Wei\xdfbier?

 

 

[LeonardC2]

German/Bavarian wheat bier yeasts have a range from 63-64F to 74-75F. Depends on which you use. There are different flocculation rates,as well as flavors produced. The Safbrew WB-06 is a dry yeast with an ideal temp range of 59F-75F. Sedimentation is low (flocculation),so bier will be cloudy to style.

[PB2]

TC Wheat Beer comes with an ale yeast, which throws subtle wheat characters - I'm not at liberty to disclose what the strain is but it's not WB-06[ninja]

 

The WB-06 spec' sheet suggests a fermentation range of 15C-24C. I've only used it in the 22C-24C range and it has produces excellent results [cool]