All wheat beer

[rookie_l_a (Steve Ruch)]

Anyone out there ever brew an all wheat beer? Any good? Any tips?

[morticaixavier]

I did a 100% wheat wine once. 25+ lbs of wheat malt. it was a sticky mess.

Do you batch or fly sparge? if you fly sparge I would include a lot of rice hulls if you hope to lauter at all.

If you batch sparge I would still include a lot of rice hulls (I didn’t) because otherwise you’ll be restirring and vorlaufing many times during the runoff.

[hopfenundmalz]

Grätzer/Grodziskie with 100% smoked wheat malt. I did a long protein rest, 1 hour at 122F. Some rice hulls, it ran off, almost stuck, but kept flowing slow. I would use more rice hulls next time.

[rookie_l_a (Steve Ruch)]

@morticaixavier

I did a 100% wheat wine once. 25+ lbs of wheat malt. it was a sticky mess.

Do you batch or fly sparge? if you fly sparge I would include a lot of rice hulls if you hope to lauter at all.

If you batch sparge I would still include a lot of rice hulls (I didn’t) because otherwise you’ll be restirring and vorlaufing many times during the runoff.

I batch and will remember the hulls.
How did it turn out?
I have a wheat wine on my to brew list, maybe I’ll go all wheat with that.

[morticaixavier]

@morticaixavier

I did a 100% wheat wine once. 25+ lbs of wheat malt. it was a sticky mess.

Do you batch or fly sparge? if you fly sparge I would include a lot of rice hulls if you hope to lauter at all.

If you batch sparge I would still include a lot of rice hulls (I didn’t) because otherwise you’ll be restirring and vorlaufing many times during the runoff.

it was delicious. went way too fast.

I batch and will remember the hulls.
How did it turn out?
I have a wheat wine on my to brew list, maybe I’ll go all wheat with that.