14th November, 2009
This time around i was going to brew a wheat beer. With no idea what recipe, i decided to brew one from the book “Brewing Classic Styles”. Obviously, from the title of the post you can tell i chose the recipe “Harold is Weizen”.
Recipe:
- 2.5Kg Pilsner Malt
- 2.5Kg Wheat Malt
- 23g Hallertauer @ 60min
- Safale US-05 Ale Yeast
A nice simple recipe. Sort of a “set and forget” type brew. Came up a litre or two short in to the fermenter, so for the next brew i need to adjust the figures slightly. This was a definite improvement from the last attempt where i missed post boil volume by several litres.
November 22nd, 2009
Time for the bottles, pretty sure im going to be drinking beer that all have varying levels of carbonation. Not to worry, tasted great from the fermenter. Can’t wait to drink this one cold.
January 11th, 2010
Quick update, tasted this beer first back in December and again over the weekend, its a real disappointment. Cant pin point where exactly i went wrong. Probably comes down to excessive temperatures whilst fermenting.
Down she goes. *flushes toilet*
:’-(
2 responses so far ↓
1 Steve // Jan 11, 2010 at 11:00 am
Going to bring this on aussie day?
Would be nice to taste something from the ‘phantom’…
2 Pete // Jan 11, 2010 at 11:09 am
Unfortunately, as i have not updated that post, but if i did it would read something like
“Tasting this beer after a month or so in bottles was a real disappointment and will have to be emptied down the sink!”
lol….. so no, i wont be bringing any, i will bring an extract beer i did months ago, just found some bottles hiding…..
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