Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Cherry Wit #22

Sup.
Using a Briess recipe i ganked from a magazine, I made a Belgian-inspired wit.
I made a one half gallon starter of White Labs WPL400 (Belgian Wit).
Then brewed this extract based should be great in the hot summer sun.

Cherry Wit

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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3.4 0.25 lbs. Cara-Pils Dextrine Malt 1.033 2
10.2 0.75 lbs. Munich Malt(light) America 1.033 10
5.1 0.38 lbs. Briess Caramel 60L America 1.034 60
67.8 5.00 lbs. Briess LME- Weizen America 1.035 4
13.6 1.00 lbs. Pale Malt(6-row) America 1.035 2

Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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0.33 oz. Perle Pellet 8.00 13.0 60 min.

Extras

Amount Name Type Time
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64.00 Oz Cherry Fruit 4 Days (in secondary)
0.05 Oz Irish Moss Fining 15 Min.(boil)

Notes:
Will add cherries on 5/16, then let finish. Primary only.

UPDATE:
Gonna let the beer finish in primary until 5/26. Then add cherries.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Yeast Starters

TIP: If you're going to make a half gallon starter, don't use a half gallon growler - go ahead and use a one gallon cider jug. The growler filled up too much and wanted to overflow with yeasties.
Thankfully, oxidizing the "Beer" isn't an issue, as i'm not drinking it, I'm just using it to make more yeast cells. So I just dumped it into the one galloner.