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[hank]

Hi everyone, I have been reading this forum for some months now and I have now finally got round to signing up.
I have been brewing for a couple of years now but have stuck to kits and the odd ginger beer and turbo cider. I am now however just about to take on my first AG brew, I have made my own mash tun and cooler and a nice 50L pot is on its way with my first ingredients from the very helpful Rob @ the malt miller

Anyway I have been reading heaps of information about AG and have found this one recipe from "Home Brewers Gold" which is supposed to be a Hoegaarden/Celis white clone. So I was just wondering what you guys thought about this?

2KG Belgian 2-row Pilsener malt
2KG flaked unmalted wheat

2.5 HBU (71MBU) American nugget hops
1HBU (28MBU) Czeck Saaz hops
1.2HBU (33MBU) Eurpean Styrian Goldings hops

7g dried ground cura
28g freshly ground coriander seed
1/4tsp Irish moss

I will be giving this a go in the next week so I will give you an update on how it goes.

Cheers

Hank

[dave-o]

Probably best to post in the recipes section, and use IBUs not MBUs.


The ratios are OK but assuming this is 23l (ish) then you haven't got enough grain and it'll be very watery.

Take a look at my Hoegaarden thread in the recipes section if interested. Your recipe is fine though, if the amounts are sorted out.

[Middo]

That seems a bit adventurous for your first AG; you might be better off trying out a standard bitter first, just so you get used to the process. Wheat beers are slightly more difficult as the wheat grain has no husk to act as a filter, so the grain bed can be become compact and inhibit the flow of sparge water. Although with a 50/50 ratio of barley/wheat you should be OK.

Also, one of the main contributors to flavour in a wheat beer is the type of yeast used. Are you going to be using a liquid yeast strain? A standard ale yeast won't produce that 'typical' wheat beer flavour/aroma.

Dave-o's right - there's not enough malted grain in the grist for a 23L batch. If you were to use malted instead of flaked unmalted wheat then that would be more on target.

Hope this helps!

[hank]

Thanks for the advice guys, I did my first AG with a mate last Thursday which was a hobgoblin clone which went well.
I have decided that I am going to adjust my recipe big time. Thanks for the link dave, very helpful