Advice on new brew please

[MR]

Just made a wheat beer and screwed up a little just wanted to see if anybody thought is was worth progressing or abort.

Morgan Golden Sheaf Wheat Beer + 1kg of Morgans Master Blend Wheat Malt + 500g of unhopped brewcraft spraymalt + 500g of cracked crystal malt plus 12g of Tettnanger hops

I only meant to use 150g of the crystal malt grains but used 500g by mistake, I have never used the malt grains b4 and not really sure what the taste effect will be because I used too much

any advice would be helpful

[Kevnlis]

In that recipe 500g will not be overkill. It will be a bit rich, but should be quite nice none the less. The only part that worries me is that you only used 12g of a low AA hop.

[MR]

thanks

I was following a recipe and it said to add the hopps.

what would you suggest as better alternative

[Ash]

Was all that malt (apart from the stuff up with too much crystal) in the recipie, cause kits are usually designed (bitterness wise) to match their own malt + a kilo of dex - not a kilo & a half of malt + crystal.

Ideally, you should have steeped the crystal to extract the malt from it, added the dry malt to the pan & boiled in some bittering hops for 60min + some later additions with the tettnanger dropped in at the end of the boil or dry hopped in the fermenter, to balance the unhopped malt.

Basically, the beer might end up too sweet

[Ross]

More importantly, what yeast did you use - hopefully a proper wheat yeast?

cheers Ross

[Kevnlis]

Doesn't that kit come with a wheat yeast?

MR, read up a bit on hopping and decide for yourself what you would like to do. If you are buying 12g sachets of hops it is going to get a bit exy!

I suggest you get yourself some fresh hop pellets and follow one of the great K&K recipes on this forum with them. It will make a big difference to your brews!

[MR]

I used a saflager K-97 wheat yeast. I will read up a bit more and try not to add the incorrect amounts next time

Cheers for the help

[Kevnlis]

You probably would desire a bit more bittering, some flavour and aroma additions as well. It will still be good beer so don't worry too much