AG#62 – Munich Weißbier

Posted by: pdtnc on: August 21, 2011

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Munich Weißbier – The last in my Tale of 3 Weizens wheat beer experiments , this time a more traditional approach with German hops and 2 colours of Munich malt. The mash was smelling really Ovaltine like.
This is a tweaked recipe from my original plan, and thoughts of 66.6% Wheat Malt get suggestions of a stuck mash, the Mash couldn’t have been more free running and I put this down to the Perforated stainless False bottom. I bet I could do a 100% Wheat Malt beer!

Fermentables:
Wheat Malt – 66.6%
Munich Malt I (Weyermann) – 24.1%
Munich Malt II (Weyermann – 8%
Melanoidin Malt – 1.2%

Hops:
Hallertauer Hersbrucker – 3 % @ 60 mins – 23g
Hallertauer Mittlefruh – 4.2 % @ 60 mins – 23g
Hallertauer Hersbrucker – 3 % @ 5 mins – 12g
Hallertauer Mittlefruh – 4.2 % @ 5 mins – 12g

Final Volume: 21 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.062 (I actually got 1058 which I’m happy with)
Final Gravity: 1.015
Alcohol Content: 6.2% ABV
Total Liquor: 29.8 Litres
Mash Liquor: 13.9 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 18 EBU
Colour: 18 EBC
Yeast: Whitelabs WLP300 Hefeweizen (repitch of 100ml of slurry from AG#61)
Mash: 66c for 2 hours+
Boil: 60 mins
Liquor: Treated to General profile in the THBF calc

First Wort Hops are Hersbrucker & Mittlefruh:

Approx 100ml of WLP300 Slurry from AG#61, a combo of some skimmed off the top and a thin skim off the bottom:

5 min hops going in along with Protafloc:

I didn’t go mad with the pictures as I was bottling the last wheat beer while the mash was on.
My Mash efficiency is down a bit and I struggled to get 70% but I’ll put this down to it being the very last of my sack of Wheat malt and the Combo of Munich malts. I’ll have all fresh malts ready for a brewday the first weekend in September.