I'm pretty new to the brewing thing, mainly doing kits so far but I want to try my own recipe. Currently I'm thinking of doing the following, any suggestions or changes would be greatly appreciated
Muntons Connoisseur Wheat Beer
1kg Dried Wheat Malt
250gm Orange Blossom Honey
teabag of Saaz hops in the final minute
poured into the fermenter (with teabag) made up to 23L
One thing worth trying, would be adding the teabag for 10 minutes of boil. I think that the hop flavour is more important than the aroma, especially with the honey. Suit yourself though. It'll be good either way.
And keep up the experimentation- it is the way to make great new discoveries.
You'll have to excuse me for not taking your word for it Chris
I didn't use the yeast that came with the Muntons kit, I got a K97 seperately. I was actually originally planning to use Hallertau but the guy at the HB shop talked me into the Saaz I'm going to make it again to use up the other half of the jar of honey, so I'll try it with the other hop next time... after I get through the TCB wet-packs that I have arriving today
I tried this last night after it being in the bottle for nearly 3 weeks... wow! I'll certainly be making this again. I think next time I'll put in a teabag of Hallertau in for the last 10 minutes then dry hop with another one and see how that goes
Make sure you keep at least one bottle from the original brew to compare it against. That way you will get to know the different flavours/aromas associated with the different hops you are trying.
melbourne man wrote:i am going to try the above recipe for my next brew.
is safwheat the same as safale k-97?
i have 25g of hallertau hop pellets.
i don't know anything about hops so bit of a rundown would be good.
When should i add these hops and what sort of hops are good for this style of beer?
Im only a novice to but to my understanding hallertau is a german lager hop with very good aromas and nice flavours and saaz is a czech pilsner yeast with good aromas and also good bitterness, they can both be used but i suppose it would depend on personal taste, as everyones is different best thing you can do is try both and work out which one works for you
P.S after a couple of homebrews tonight i can barely see the keyboard so dont necesarily take my word for it
your typing seems fine except for the fact that saaz are HOPS not YEAST. I'm pretty sure that was the beer typing .
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As for using funny combinations of hops, why not? My Dark Lager used a combination of Green Bullet and Saaz, one usually used in NZ lagers, the other for Czech pilsners. Result: mmmmmmm.... beer! (and yes I could taste the individual contributions.)
Let us know how it goes so we can give it a go if it's good.
melbourne man wrote:i am going to try the above recipe for my next brew.
is safwheat the same as safale k-97?
i have 25g of hallertau hop pellets.
i don't know anything about hops so bit of a rundown would be good.
When should i add these hops and what sort of hops are good for this style of beer?
Yeah it was the k-97 I used. I'm going to use about the same amount of hallertau next time I make it, probably half at the 10 minute from flame-out mark then half either with one minute to go, or dry hop it.
Lowenbrau use hallertau in their wheat beer, so I'm keen to give it a try
I've always gone clover honey which has turned out quite nice for me. I'm guestimating that the lighter honeys are better for lighter beers, and the darker ones for the darker beers. It's worked for me so far anyway!
I did quite a similar recipe to you except using Hallertau hops a while back and it has come out very yummy:
1 x 1.7kg tin Morgan's Golden Sheaf wheat beer
1 x 1kg tin Morgan's wheat malt master blend
500g clover honey
2 tsp Corriander seeds, crushed. Steeped with the hops.
20g Halltertau hops, steeped and then thrown into fermenter.
Safwheat yeast, rehydrated.
Fermenter filled to 23 litres.
was supposed to be saaz hops and hallertau yeast, no thats not right either um oh weell you no what i mean 