Wheat Beer

Mini-Mash Wheat Beer with 
Unhopped Malt Extract

What you Need:

1kg Dried wheat malt extract

750g Dried light malt extract

250g Dextrose

500g Aust Ale malt grain

600g Wheat malt grain

50g Medium crystal malt grain

Bittering hops 12g Northern brewer hop pellets 10%AA (60 min boil 17 IBU)

Flavour hops 15g Hersbrucker hop Pellets 3%AA (15 min boil 3 IBU)

Aroma hops 15g Hersbrucker hop Pellets 3%AA (0 min boil 0 IBU)

1x Whirlfloc tablet

5-10l fridge cold water

1x Safale US56 yeast

How to do it:

· Pre heat the esky with 2 litres of hot water for 5 minutes

· Mash in 3l of strike water to achieve a mash temperature of 66 degrees.

· Mash for 60 minutes.

· Add 1l near boiling water to the mash tun for mash out, mix well and leave for 10 minutes.

· Drain the contents of the mash tun to the brew kettle.

· Add 3l of sparge water at 75 to 80 degrees to the mash tun and mix well.

· Drain the mash tun to the brew kettle.

· Bring the wort in the brew kettle to the boil.

· Add bittering hops for a 60 minute boil.

· After 45 minutes boiling, add the whirlfloc tablet and flavour hops to the brew kettle and boil for the remaining 15 minutes.

· After 60 minutes boiling has elapsed, stop the boil and add the Aroma hops to brew kettle.

· Add the malt extract and dextrose to the brew kettle and stir well.

· Cool the wort and add cold water and wort to the fermenter and stir well.

· Top up to 22l and pitch the yeast.