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Beach Beer

Style: Weißbier

Bentleybrau Brewery's Briskly Brewed Banana Bread Beach Beer: Huit B Wit Beer

A clone of Franziskaner's Weissbier, recipe from Beer Captured, with bananas added. Used unmalted wheat for bulk of grist, enzymes couldn't convert, expected to be grainy/bready. Bananas should add a bit of banana-bread flavor..

All-Grain BIAB

Brewed: 02/19/2011
Target OG: 1.053
Strike hit: 157.5F
OG: 1.040
FG:
ABV:

Recipe:

7.0 lb Breiss unmalted wheat
2.75 lb Breiss pilsner
4.0 oz Aromatic malt
2.0 oz Weyermann Acidulated malt
1.0 tsp Yeast nutrient
1.0 tsp whirlfloc
0.75 oz Hallertau hops
0.35 oz Perle hops
0.25 oz Spalt hops
0.4 oz gypsum power
1.0 packet Wyeast Bavarian Wheat 3638 yeast

Mash:

Intentionally using very high grist ratio for BIAB. 100% of water in mash.

2:00: Mash grain in 8 gallons water @ 163F (strike: 155F) (3.2 qt/lb)
0:15: Drain bag into kettle, should have 7 gallons remaining

Boil:

60 minutes: 0.75 oz Hallertau
60 minutes: 0.4 oz gypsum power
15 minutes: 0.35 oz Perle
15 minutes: 0.25 oz Spalt
10 minutes: whirlfloc
5 minutes: yeast nutrient

Fermentation:

Temperature: 65F constant Expected FG: 1.012

Brew Notes:

Brewed on parent's bottom porch.
Water from outside tap (house water)
Rinsed, filled kettle to 8 gallons, brought to 163F
Filled grain bag outside kettle, tied off loosely, placed in steaming basket, lowered into kettle & stirred.
Strike temp after 2 min stirring: 157.5F
Fell to 156F within 5 minutes.
Ran burner once every 20 minutes, kept in 151F - 158F range, mostly right on 155F.

Iodine test (drop of iodophor in small sample):

  • 60 min - black swirl
  • 90 min - black swirl
  • 120 min - black swirl, give up

Unmalted wheat has no enzymes, couldn't convert, gave up. Probably full of unfermentable starch.
Final volume low (didn't fill better bottle, probably exactly 5 gallons)
OG very low considering volume loss.
Cooled to <80F in under 20 minutes, pitched yeast, stored in basement (outside temp in the 40s-60s this week).

High krausen @ 36 hours, bubbling furiously. Switched from blow-off tube to S-lock.
Ambient temperature measured to be exactly 65F.

48 hours: still bubbling frantically, added 3 sliced, boiled, and smushed ripe bananas to primary (still hot).

Taste Notes:

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