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™

Brew Night - RyePA

It's Brew Night!  I have a liter starter of Wyeast American Ale ready to rock and roll.  It's been sitting in some 1.045 wort for about 36 hours now.  I purchased the NB RyePA kit that features their new Rye Malt Extract.  I still enjoy doing some extract brewing here and again.  It's very simple, and typically takes me a couple of hours from start to finish.

The recipe for the RyePA is available to the right.  I will pop the info into beer tools later this week, and post the pretty recipe breakdown to my blog tomorrow.

On the stir plate front, I've collected the following parts.

1.) Wooden Box - Pipe Puffers in Greenwood sells used cigar shipping boxes for $1.
2.) CPU Fan - Harvested from a 1999 Gateway 2000 computer
3.) Rare Earth Magnet - Harvested from 1999 WD Caviar 2GB hard drive
4.) Potentiomter (25 Ohm) - RadioShack - $2
5.) Toggle Switch - Radio Shack - $2
6.) Power Supply - I have a 5v Blackberry charger I was thinking about using.  More to come on this item.
7.) Quick Disconnects - For the inside wiring - RadioShack - $1.50

Not too shabby for $6.50 in total spend.  I also had to get a new $10 soldering iron.  Mine bit the farm.

It's Here!!

My first All Grain kit from Northern Brewer has arrived today!  I can't hold my excitement for much longer.  The only downside is that my job has me out of state until late Friday night!  I guess that means I need to finally get this mash tun kit put together that I bought from a fellow home brewer, and get ready hopefully for a Sunday brew session!

All for Brew, Brew for All!