Mongrel Brews (aka the Heinz 57s)

[hophit]

Do other people do these brews where they want to do a style, find out they don't have quite the right kinds of ingredients, are impatient and so just have a stab at something close and then it turns out quite nice?! Or aren;t going for a style but just bung in a load of leftover bits and hoep fot he best. Seem to be doing it quite a lot recently, sometimes with ok results...

I did one earlier in the week after work. Just had the brewing bug at the end of the work day. Wanted to do a Wheat Beer. Had the wheat and pale malt but no belgian yeast (just US05 so used that), and no carpils (lots of online recipes seemed to call for that) so I used a small amout of crystal (like 80g). Also only had US hops so just used them. Hoping it will be alright...! Recipe below! OK, so it won't taste like a belgian/german wit as wrong yeast but hope it will be drinkable. Any predictions?

5 Gallon
Mashed at 66 for an hour
90 min boil

Water treated for a pale type profile with CRS and gymsum

Grain:
Pale Malt, 3200g
Wheat Malt Pale, 3000g
Crystal Malt (130 EBC), 80g

Hops:
Chinook, 20g, 90 mins
Cascade, 10g, 10 mins (with half a protofloc)
Cascade, 20g, 5 mins
Cascade, 20g, flameout

Will chuck in some dry hop cascade too.

[Ben711200]

As someone who currently has a slightly improvised US hop bursted wheat beer sat in primary, I think it will be lovely. I certainly can't wait to try mine!