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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

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?

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.

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