My Wit all-extract

[timmy]

Hey all,

Just put this down tonight:

3kg Coopers Wheat Malt (50/50 barley/wheat liquid extract)
200g torrified wheat (Sanitarium Puffed Wheat cereal)
20g Goldings (unknown AA, assuming 5%)
20g D-Saaz (5.9% AA)
15g mandarin peel
8g coriander seeds
3944 Wyeast

Method:
Steep torrified wheat in 4L water at 70deg for 30 mins
Bring to boil and add 1/2 the liquid malt + goldings.
Boil 50 mins
Add Saaz, boil another 5 mins
Add coriander seeds + mandarin peel and boil 5 mins
Cool mixture in water bath
Top up to 23L and pitch yeast.

I've made a few wits in the past using mandarin peel instead of the traditional bitter orange peel and it usually comes out very nice. Will post back the results.

Cheers,

Tim

[bullfrog]

If you've done a similar thing before and it works for you then well done. Hope it's a cracker!

Wheat beers generally still have quite a large amount of barely in them, though. Is that extract just pure wheat extract?

Also, are you using a yeast that is made for wheat beers? Yeast is one of the biggest players in the flavour of a good wheat beer, that's why the they're bittered so low; so the yeast characteristics can shine. What yeast are you using at what temp?

[chadjaja]

I hope you used a blow off tube. Normally you don't see much activity in yeast starters when using a stir plate but this yeast always seems to climb half way out the 2L flask when I use it! I've been contemplating just how much I can fill a fermenter using this yeast as I'll most likely bottles batches of it from now on.

3944 will give you a great wheat beer too.

[bullfrog]

Oops, didn't read the op at all, apparently. Disregard my last post.