Sugar Baby Summer Wheat Beer Kit - Extract

Description

Your Sugar Baby Summer Wheat uses wheat dry malt extract along with white wheat malt, honey malt, and caramel 20L malt to give your beer a light body with subtle honey and caramel notes. Saaz and Cashmere hops contribute mild bitterness along with flavor and aroma.

SafAle WB-06 yeast ferments your beer cleanly while the watermelon flavoring added during bottling delivers a fruity character to the finished beer.

Your Label Peelers Sugar Baby Summer Wheat Original Beer Kit never sits on a shelf. Your grains are crushed to order. Your ingredients are packed fresh and you don't pay for a flashy box. It's all about providing you with the freshest ingredients for you to make your best beer.

Beer Specifications

• ABV: 5.6% - 5.9%
• Original Gravity: 1.048 - 1.054
• Final Gravity: 1.005 - 1.011
• IBUs: 19
• SRM: 6

Disclaimer: All calculations are approximate.

Ingredients

Extracts

• 5 lbs. Wheat Dry Malt Extract

Specialty Malts (combined into one bag)

• 8 oz. White Wheat Malt
• 8 oz. Honey Malt
• 8 oz. Caramel 20L Malt

Hops (substitutions based on availability)

• 1 oz. Saaz Hops
• 1 oz. Cashmere Hops

Yeast (substitutions based on availability)

• Packet of Dry Yeast (SafAle WB-06)

Also Included

• 5 oz. Priming Sugar
• Yeast Energizer / Irish Moss Combo Packet
• Muslin Grain Bag
• 4 oz. Watermelon Flavoring (added during the bottling stage)

Instructions

Hop Schedule

• 60 minutes: 1 oz. Saaz Hops (Bittering)
• 5 minutes: 1 oz. Cashmere (Flavor / Aroma)

1. Heat 2-3 gallons of water to 155°F.
2. Place grains in a grain bag and steep in the hot water for 30 minutes.
3. Remove the grain bag, sparge (rinse) with warm water, and discard.
4. Add the malt extract and stir until fully dissolved.
5. Bring wort to a rolling boil.
6. Add the hops according to the hop schedule.
7. Boil for 60 minutes, stirring occasionally.
8. At 15 minutes left, add Yeast Energizer / Irish Moss Combo Packet.
9. Cool the wort to 70°F. An immersion chiller or ice bath work well for this.
10. Transfer the wort to a fermenter and top off with clean, filtered water to 5 gallons.
11. Pitch the yeast and seal the fermenter.
12. Ferment at 68-70°F for 10-14 days.

Bottle Conditioning

1. Transfer to a bottling bucket and stir in 5 oz. priming sugar with 4 oz. Watermelon flavoring. Mix until evenly distributed and bottle your beer.
2. Once bottled, allow 2 weeks for carbonation in a cool, dark room. Enjoy!