Hefeweizen

This is the NB All grain Bavarian Hefeweizen recipe and setup. I typically use this as a good wheat base for my Blue Eyed Wheatie. This time however I'm going to serve this beer at a Pro-Life dinner. Should be a pretty tasty beer!

Northern Brewer Hefeweizen

15-A Weizen/Weissbier
Author: NB - Murrey
Date: 10/13/12

Size: 5.04 gal
Efficiency: 67.0%
Attenuation: 73%
Calories: 147.88 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.044 (1.044 - 1.052)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.012 (1.010 - 1.014)
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Color: 6.02 (2.0 - 8.0)
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Alcohol: 4.24% (4.3% - 5.6%)
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Bitterness: 16.7 (8.0 - 15.0)
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Ingredients:

5.5 lb (57.9%) Pale Wheat Malt - added during mash
4 lb (42.1%) Premium Pilsner Malt Extra Pale - added during mash
1 oz (100.0%) Tettnanger (4.5%) - added during boil, boiled 60 m
1.0 ea WYeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen™

This week at the Home Brewery

It's been a pretty eventful week for the home brewery. I was able to transfer both of the beers that I had in secondary into some kegs, and start the force carbonation process. It's going to be a busy week this week at our house, and I'm sure my wife is super happy to not have any fermenters on the kitchen island. Have I mentioned what a saint my wife is? On another note, I planted my hop rhizomes into a couple of very large containers. This years plan is to grow them from the containers and up about 20 feet to some connections off the south side gutters. It should make for some good looking decoration, and give the hops adequate space to grow. Coming up next will be an Irish Blonde Ale. Yes, a Guinness like beer, in a blonde. It should be interesting. I'm also going to be brewing up another batch of my Blue Eyed Wheatie. It's always a hit, and there's nothing better than a Blue Eyed Wheatie after a long hot summer day. Cheers!

Dunkelweizen moving to keg

It's finally time to move Bill and I's first collaborative brew to the serving kegs!


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Tonight's Brew - My CDA

Andy's CDA (Black IPA)

23-A Specialty Beer
Author: Andrew Murrey
Date: 2/15/12

Size: 5.04 gal
Efficiency: 65%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 235.53 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.070 (1.026 - 1.120)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.018 (0.995 - 1.035)
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Color: 31.67 (1.0 - 50.0)
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Alcohol: 6.96% (2.5% - 14.5%)
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Bitterness: 31.6 (0.0 - 100.0)
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Ingredients:

12 lb 2-Row Brewers Malt
2 lb 2-Row Caramel Malt 60L
1 lb Victory® Malt
1 lb German Carafa III
1 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 60.0 m
1 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 10 m
1.0 oz Centennial (10.0%) - added during boil, boiled 2 m
1 oz Chinook (13.0%) - added during boil, boiled 0.0 m
1 ea White Labs WLP001 California Ale

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Brew Update

Bill and I transferred our Dunkelweizen AG brew from primary to secondary last night.  There was a TON of flocculated out yeast, so the fear of too many dead yeast cells drove the desire to transfer a few days early.  We will let it sit in the secondary for another 3 weeks.  SG reading when going into the secondary was 1.025.  Hopefully in the next three weeks we can get down closer to our target of 1.011 - 1.014.

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Great Quick CDA Recipe - BIAB

In the last episode of Brewing TV Jake walked us through a really simple and probably very tasty 3 gallon BIAB for a CDA.  Today they posted the recipe on their blog site.  If you love CDA's and have been wanting to try out all grain brewing, but don't have the dough or space for the equipment, this is right up your alley.

You can find the recipe and instructions here:  http://www.northernbrewer.com/connect/2012/02/jakes-biab-cda/

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Cheers!