What are some good recipe suggestions for the specialty grain Midnight Wheat? Anyone know what it imparts into a beer other than color?
Thanks!
it being wheat will probably impart some body and head retention. I plan on using it for the first time in a sweet stout in a few weeks.
I threw a few ounces in my Roggenstein a couple weeks ago. Mostly for color, the two liter sample last weekend was deep red, rich and smooth tasting with a great head and lacing.
Basically treat midnight wheat like you would carafa special. Any recipe where you want color with minimal roast flavor, i.e.
Black IPA
Alt
Roggenbier
Dunkelweizen
Baltic Porter
Mild
Southern English Brown
Schwarzbier
It has a really mellow coffee like roast. This and blackprinz are hands down the best malt you will find from briess.
Keith,
How many bags of this did you end up with from NHC? I had 5-6, but my cats ate a couple bags…
oh, and I used this to adjust the color (more red) to my first flanders red. I put 1 bag (bout 1.5 oz) in 2 cups of water, cold steeped for about an hour (same as mash) and then strained and added about 1/2 to 2/3 into the wort at the beginning of a boil. It was right on the color I was shooting for.
None, because I had several 50 lbs sacks of it back at my brewery. I use it now over the carafa special.
I have a lb so I’m gonna ask, how much for a nice red colour? I haven’t used it yet but I bought it cause I wanted to make a red wheat beer (there’s a type of wheat called hard red winter wheat so I thought it would be a neat play on words to make a spiced “hard red winter wheat” (I work with too many farmers).
Just wondering how many ounces would make a nice red colour in a 5 gal batch.
Thanks
as a very generic answer Id say 4-6 oz will get you the color you want.
+1 I used it in my Black IPA last month and really enjoyed the results. I did a 50:50 split between midnight wheat and carafa special II for the roast character. By the way, the only reason I used the midnight wheat is because I got a free sample of it. But like I said, I enjoyed the results.
Thanks for the info guys! They had a decent looking recipe for a black IPA using Midnight Wheat on the Briess website so I may give that a try. I have 2#'s so I can probably use it in a couple recipes. The red wheat sounds like a good idea.