Wonderful Wheat Ale Beer Kit - Extract

Description

Your Wonderful Wheat Ale gives you a light crisp wheat beer with a slightly sweet flavor profile. The Wheat Dry Malt Extract along with White Wheat Malt and Carapils Malt deliver the bready sweetness and body typical of the style while the German Hallertau Mittlefruh Czech Saaz and Willamette hops provide balanced bitterness and aroma. The SafAle WB-06 yeast contributes subtle fruity undertones to your finished beer.

Your Wonderful Wheat Ale 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: 6.8% - 7.2%
• Original Gravity: 1.060 - 1.066
• Final Gravity: 1.007 - 1.011
• IBUs: 26
• SRM: 4

Disclaimer: All calculations are approximate.

Ingredients

Extracts

• 7 lbs Wheat Dry Malt Extract

Specialty Grains (combined into one bag)

• 8 oz White Wheat Malt
• 8 oz Carapils Malt

Hops (substitutions based on availability)

• 1 oz German Hallertau Mittlefruh Hops
• 1 oz Czech Saaz Hops
• 1 oz Willamette Hops

Yeast (substitutions based on availability)

• 1 Packet of Dry Yeast (SafAle WB-06)

Also Included

• 5 oz. Priming Sugar
• 1 Yeast Energizer / Irish Moss Combo Packet
• Muslin Grain Bag

Instructions

Hop Schedule

• 1 oz. Willamette – 60 minutes
• 1 oz. Czech Saaz – 15 minutes
• 1 oz. German Hallertau – 1 minute

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 hot water into the wort, and discard.
4. Add the malt extract and stir until fully dissolved.
5. Bring the 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 add Yeast Energizer / Irish Moss Combo Packet.
9. Cool the wort to 70°F. An immersion chiller or ice bath works well for this.
10. Transfer the wort to a sanitized 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.
13. Transfer to a bottling bucket and stir in 5 oz. priming sugar. Mix until evenly distributed and bottle your beer.
14. Once bottled, allow 2 weeks for carbonation in a cool, dark room. Enjoy!