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Offline Steve Ruch

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All wheat beer
« on: March 22, 2016, 04:01:23 pm »
Anyone out there ever brew an all wheat beer? Any good? Any tips?
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Re: All wheat beer
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2016, 05:36:03 pm »
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.
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Re: All wheat beer
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2016, 05:40:33 pm »
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.
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Offline Steve Ruch

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Re: All wheat beer
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2016, 03:32:00 pm »
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.
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Re: All wheat beer
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2016, 05:13:25 pm »
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.
"Creativity is the residue of wasted time"
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"errors are [...] the portals of discovery"
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