Day off - I brewed an American Wheat 5 gallons
5 lb 2 row
5 lb wheat
1/2 Centennial @ 60
1/2 Centennial @ 20
1 oz Centennial @ 10
1 oz Centennial @ 0
Pitched on a yeast cake (Wyeast 3333) from a Hefe, which I then bottled.
5 1/2 hour day after clean up. I’m gonna sit back to watch Olympics now.
Pretty good way to kill 5 1/2 hours if you ask me haha.
I love Centennial in light, refreshing beers. Nice simple beer.
[quote=“harpdog”]Day off - I brewed an American Wheat 5 gallons
5 lb 2 row
5 lb wheat
1/2 Centennial @ 60
1/2 Centennial @ 20
1 oz Centennial @ 10
1 oz Centennial @ 0
Pitched on a yeast cake (Wyeast 3333) from a Hefe, which I then bottled.
5 1/2 hour day after clean up. I’m gonna sit back to watch Olympics now.[/quote]
Is it still considered a U S wheat using a German yeast? Not that it won’t be a good beer.
[quote=“Rookie L A”]
Is it still considered a U S wheat using a German yeast? Not that it won’t be a good beer.[/quote]
Good call. I’m sure it’s not! I just wanted something simple to put onto that yeast cake - wasn’t thinking about style guidelines (I’m not that cool!)
The lid blew off the fermenter bucket at 1 AM. I rigged up a blow-off tube. Had to sanitize with what was on hand - which turned out to be a pretty good tequila. Natch, I had to drink the remainder.
You definitely made a German Hefe and not a American Wheat. It’s all about the yeast. German wheat yeast lend clove and banana flavors while American Wheat yeast create a more dry and crisp beer. Both good, but very different. I prefer German wheat’s and I really like what you did choosing Centennial hops. I’m very curious how that turns out.
Not a hefe either with the Cents and that hoping schedule. We’ll just call it “wheat”.
Brewing AG ought to be an Olympic event! I bet I could brew 3x my weight in beer! That’d be over 600lb though, so 70+gal. Maybe not.
S’pose that’s true. I really like hefe and the banana/clove taste, so this should be nice.
I was really trying to just reuse the yeast cake and have a summerish beer to finish the season with.
Maybe I’ll call it a What instead of a Wheat.
Still had occasional big bubbling from blow-off tube yesterday AM, but quiet today.
I decided since this brew had such a workout, to transfer to secondary (which I don’t usually do).
I figured it would like clearing away from that huge trub mess.
Took a reading at 1.008, down from 1.042. I had a taste - very nice.
This is the beauty about home brewing… you can make anything you want the way you want it 
And we’re here to criticize you for it! Then we’ll ask for the recipe.
:lol:
