Just mashed in on my American Wheat
The FWH hanging out smell amazing!
Yeah, that is one of the big perks to using FWH.
even though I have a HERMS, I like to stop and stir the mash every 30 min or so…neighbor came buy and I forgot until there was only 20min left in the 75min mash, so I stirred and bumped the mash to 90 min
Whereas I never open the cooler to stir until it’s time to add the sparge water. I found no benefit to stirring and I lost heat every time I opened the cooler. Of course, with a HERMS/RIMS, heat loss wouldn’t be much of an issue.
When I mashed in a cooler I never opened either.
I am still learning this brew setup, and my first 4 brews cam in real low in efficiency.
Since then, I have fixed my mill, and I started mixing the mash and the sparge to see if it helps.
Last brew I pulled 72%, better but with a HERMS I feel like I am still 6-10% low.
Today, I am double batch sparging, it seems that is where I was loosing ground before.
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FWH with 2oz of Sorachi Ace. Thinking about dry hopping, any ideas?
Three Floyd’s Gumballhead is a great American Wheat. They dry hop Amarillo. Works really well in that beer. Lots of other hops would be great there though - Cascade or Centennial of course, Ahtanum, Azacca (great citrusy/tropical new hop), Mandarina Bavaria, Citra, for starters. Lots of options.
Brewed up an American Wheat last week and it is ready to be dry hopped.
I used 2oz of Sorchai Ace FWH for about 25 IBU
I am wanting to use either my Meridian or Galaxy at about 3-4 oz…
I do have other hops too, just looking for some feedback.
Thanks
I like Galaxy the best of the two, but I would maybe hold it at 3 oz dry in American Wheat - it’s a great but strong hop. Sounds great !
Depends on what you’re going for. Galaxy is tropical, Meridian is nectarine/stonefruit. Both are great hops and would work well here.
Went with 3oz of Galaxy