Pale Man Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Any of you all grainers ever made a wheat beer, with 100% wheat grain? If so how did it taste, any tips or hints? Obviously the recirc and sparge will be a challenge but I plan to only brew 10 litres with rice hulls. Two reasons for doing it. Curiosity and I want to get rid of some wheat I have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Brewing Co Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Pale Man said: Any of you all grainers ever made a wheat beer, with 100% wheat grain? If so how did it taste, any tips or hints? Obviously the recirc and sparge will be a challenge but I plan to only brew 10 litres with rice hulls. Two reasons for doing it. Curiosity and I want to get rid of some wheat I have. Good enough reason Mr. Pale, I like wheat beer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmar92 Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 4 hours ago, Pale Man said: Any of you all grainers ever made a wheat beer, with 100% wheat grain? If so how did it taste, any tips or hints? Obviously the recirc and sparge will be a challenge but I plan to only brew 10 litres with rice hulls. Two reasons for doing it. Curiosity and I want to get rid of some wheat I have. Pretty sure that if you used 100% wheat you would have problems with stuck mash/sparge etc as it would be a very sticky mash even with rice hulls. Apparently malted wheat has plenty of the enzymes for converting the starch but as the protein is so high 100% would be a problem. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Of Beddanburg Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 10 minutes ago, therealthing691 said: it wont convert the sugar to alcohols you need barley to convert the wheat look it up rooky mistake but it is what it is been there ahhahaha done that so it's not that he could not do it at all? ancient civilisations brewed straight wheat he would just not get as much alcohol. or were those the brews that they stuffed up? ahhhhaaa look it up. guess we could look anything up couldn't we? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmar92 Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 15 minutes ago, therealthing691 said: it wont convert the sugar to alcohols you need barley to convert the wheat look it up rooky mistake but it is what it is been there ahhahaha done that Actually malted wheat has plenty of enzymes for the conversion process, I think that it has a higher diastatic power than malted barley, so it would be fine in a mash to convert starches to sugar. Agree with you that it will not convert sugar to alcohol, that is the job of the yeast. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 14 hours ago, therealthing691 said: it wont convert the sugar to alcohols you need barley to convert the wheat look it up Thats what fermentation is for. Its been done before, pretty sure it can be done, I looked it up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 14 hours ago, kmar92 said: Pretty sure that if you used 100% wheat you would have problems with stuck mash/sparge etc as it would be a very sticky mash even with rice hulls. Apparently malted wheat has plenty of the enzymes for converting the starch but as the protein is so high 100% would be a problem. Yeah I thought the sparge would be a hassle but Im willing to give it a crack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBooz2 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 19 hours ago, Pale Man said: Two reasons for doing it. Curiosity and I want to get rid of some wheat I have. PM why do you need to get rid of your wheat malt, got too much or is it getting stale? I bought a bag years ago and it's been stored in an air-tight drum and probably a year past its BBD and have about 10 kg still left. I had thoughts like you to do some wheat beers to use it before its BBD but I think I got better value from the bulk purchase by throwing 250 g into most recipes. Very handy to have some wheat or Carapils at hand on brew day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 8 minutes ago, iBooz2 said: PM why do you need to get rid of your wheat malt, got too much or is it getting stale? I bought a bag years ago and it's been stored in an air-tight drum and probably a year past its BBD and have about 10 kg still left. I had thoughts like you to do some wheat beers to use it before its BBD but I think I got better value from the bulk purchase by throwing 250 g into most recipes. Very handy to have some wheat or Carapils at hand on brew day. Yeah Ive got a fair bit. I guess the main reason is just out of curiosity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Man Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 14 hours ago, therealthing691 said: Extract to All-Grain and Back - Brew Your Own (byo.com) for a start not giving you a hard time just telling you a 100 % wheat dont work been there cheers Tell these fellas that 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealthing691 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 my mistake 000ps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Of Beddanburg Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 @Pale ManI have been following james and Steve at basic brewing for years they are great. They even quote every ingredient amount in Imperial and Metric. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Pale Man said: Yeah I thought the sparge would be a hassle but Im willing to give it a crack. Throw some Rye in there for a laugh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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