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Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:17 pm
by jpsherman
3# Muntons Wheat DME
.25# Carapils steeped
.5oz Liberty for 45min
Lallemand Munich Wheat yeast 11.5g

Batch size: 2.13g
OG: 1.066
Est FG: 1.016
ABV: 6.4%
IBU: 17
SRM: 6

I am going for a simple wheat beer recipe here. Planning on making this one on Saturday.

Should I pitch the whole packet, or use half and freeze the rest?

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:19 pm
by philm00x
Nothing wrong w/ pitching it all. Give the yeast the best chance to work their magic. Better than worrying about underpitching because of unviable yeast left in the packet.

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:30 pm
by mtsoxfan
+1 I would rather overpitch than under....

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:36 pm
by jpsherman
Full packet it is then! :flag:

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:08 pm
by jimjohson
fwiw I split yeast packs a lot just spilt to 5.75g more than enough to do 2.5 gal. More than comes in the MrB packs

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:55 pm
by jpsherman
Came in at 1.062. Pitched a full packet.

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:35 pm
by pocketjr
It's been a month. I assume it's conditioning now? I'd like to hear how it turns out, as I am interested in making a wheat/blonde mix of my own.

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:00 pm
by jpsherman
Yep, it was bottled 9-18.

I know that wheat beers are better young but I bottle prime, not sure how long I should wait before cracking one.

Any thoughts?

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:37 am
by pocketjr
jpsherman wrote:Yep, it was bottled 9-18.

I know that wheat beers are better young but I bottle prime, not sure how long I should wait before cracking one.

Any thoughts?

Not sure. Never made one. I usually let all my brews sit 3-4 weeks before cracking one. If I like it, I drink it. If I don't I let it sit longer, opening a new one every week or so to get an idea of the taste at different stages.

Re: Jimbo's Freedom Wheat Ale

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:44 pm
by jpsherman
Just popped open a trub bottle, and it is delicious!

Very smooth, the banana note is very subtle and there is no clove presence. This one fermented very cleanly.

Its very cloudy because I elected not to cold crash it, and the munich is a low flocculating yeast.

Nice full body.

I would certainly make this again as is!