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This is a go at incorporating as many varieties of wheat as possible into one batch.
“When I grow up I want to be just like Denny Conn” Belgian strong dark ale
Five gallons: O G 1.100, 32 IBUs, 20 SRM
10 pounds Belgian pale ale malt
3 pounds white wheat malt
1 pound dark wheat malt
1 pound crystal wheat malt
12 ounces red wheat malt
8 ounces triticale malt
8 ounces torrified wheat
6 ounces flaked wheat
6 ounces spelt malt
4 ounces einkorn malt
4 ounces emmer malt
4 ounces buckwheat malt*
2 ounces chocolate wheat malt
1 ounce midnight wheat malt
mash at 150 for 45 minutes
enough sparge water to give 3.75 gallons of preboil wort
1.5 pounds tart cherry candi syrup at end of boil
.875 ounce el dorado @ 15% for 45 minutes = 29 IBUs
.125 ounce el dorado @ 15% for 20 minutes = 3 IBUs
.5 teaspoon irish moss for 15 minutes
.5 teaspoon nutrient for 10 minutes
2 quart Wyeast 3739 starter: SNS
5 ounces corn sugar to prime
I know buckwheat isn’t actually wheat, but I really like the name.
I was wondering why so few replies have been posted when I realized that everyone and their brother are probably stuck in traffic jams on the way to prime eclipse viewing spots.
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My homebrew club does an “Iron Brewer” comp every year with ingredients drawn from a hat. The first year was a kiwi-agave beer. Those were so dreadful we now have veto power over proposed ingredients. My kiwi-agave beer was extremely tart in an unpleasant way and the kiwi seeds were impossible to filter out. I hung onto it for about a year hoping it would improve, but ultimately dumped it.
I brew a olive leaf IPA using olive leafs for bittering. The leafs of the olive tree are extremely bitter. It took me about 5 batches to find a comfortable bitterness level using them. My first beer using them was flatout in your face tooth brush your tongue facial paralysis of bitterness that nuked my taste buds for few days. I thought to my self dear God what have I done.
