Watermelon Wheat
"Wheatermelon" (Hefeweizen Style with watermelon juice)
Recipe:
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4.00 lb Weyermann Wheat Malt (grain)
4.00 lb Weyermann Light Munich Malt (grain)\
1.00 gal Watermelon Juice. (One large watermelon)
Hops:
*****
1.00 oz Hallertauer (4.7% AA - 3.0 AAU)(~15 min @ 1.025 wort)
Yeast:
******
No Yeast Nutrient to promote yeast stress.
Harvested from August-2011 Hefe Batch.
Notes:
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5.00 gal (4 gal of wort / 1 gal of watermelon juice)
OG: 1.045 / 1.040 juice = ~1.044
FG: 1.011
1210: Heated up lauter / mash tun with 130G faucet water. Heated up 3 gal of mash water.
1245: Started mash. 3 Gallons of water, 8.0 lbs of grain. 158F Mash temp.
1345: Temperature 155F.
1350: Started first running
1400: Finished the first running, started the sparge (172F water 2.5 gal)
1410: Finished sparge, placed first runnings on stove.
1415: Placed second runnigs on stove.
1445: Started hop boil, and cooling for fist runnings.
1500: Hops done, first pot cool, started cooling second pot.
1515: Both pots cool and in fermentation bucket.
Both pots of wort filled bucket (not carboy this time) to 4.0 gal. Took specific gravity.
SG at 4.0 gal: 1.045
Added 0.0 gal of Water
SG at 5.50 gal: 1.051
Pitched yeast (82 F) (Propagated on slants from WLP300)
Color ~8 SRM. brown-orange-tan for now.
1615: Pitched the yeast from the August Hefe Batch @ 95 F.
1730: Fermentation noted.
2011/08/14
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Temperature at 1900 is 80F.
Fermentation very active.
Dense foam at surface of wort.
Aroma is malty clove with spicey hop notes.
2011/08/15
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Temperature at 1600 is 75F.
Fermentation very active.
Slimey krausen at surface.
Aroma is malty clove with spicey hop notes.
Added 1 gal of Redish pink watermelon juice @ 1.040 SG.
2011/09/14
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Fastest batch ever brewed. Kegged less than 1 week after start.
Looks like wheat beer
Smells like fresh mellon... not candy.
Taste is wheat with a finish of mellon.
"Wheatermelon" (Hefeweizen Style with watermelon juice)
Recipe:
*******
4.00 lb Weyermann Wheat Malt (grain)
4.00 lb Weyermann Light Munich Malt (grain)\
1.00 gal Watermelon Juice. (One large watermelon)
Hops:
*****
1.00 oz Hallertauer (4.7% AA - 3.0 AAU)(~15 min @ 1.025 wort)
Yeast:
******
No Yeast Nutrient to promote yeast stress.
Harvested from August-2011 Hefe Batch.
Notes:
******
5.00 gal (4 gal of wort / 1 gal of watermelon juice)
OG: 1.045 / 1.040 juice = ~1.044
FG: 1.011
1210: Heated up lauter / mash tun with 130G faucet water. Heated up 3 gal of mash water.
1245: Started mash. 3 Gallons of water, 8.0 lbs of grain. 158F Mash temp.
1345: Temperature 155F.
1350: Started first running
1400: Finished the first running, started the sparge (172F water 2.5 gal)
1410: Finished sparge, placed first runnings on stove.
1415: Placed second runnigs on stove.
1445: Started hop boil, and cooling for fist runnings.
1500: Hops done, first pot cool, started cooling second pot.
1515: Both pots cool and in fermentation bucket.
Both pots of wort filled bucket (not carboy this time) to 4.0 gal. Took specific gravity.
SG at 4.0 gal: 1.045
Added 0.0 gal of Water
SG at 5.50 gal: 1.051
Pitched yeast (82 F) (Propagated on slants from WLP300)
Color ~8 SRM. brown-orange-tan for now.
1615: Pitched the yeast from the August Hefe Batch @ 95 F.
1730: Fermentation noted.
2011/08/14
**********
Temperature at 1900 is 80F.
Fermentation very active.
Dense foam at surface of wort.
Aroma is malty clove with spicey hop notes.
2011/08/15
**********
Temperature at 1600 is 75F.
Fermentation very active.
Slimey krausen at surface.
Aroma is malty clove with spicey hop notes.
Added 1 gal of Redish pink watermelon juice @ 1.040 SG.
2011/09/14
**********
Fastest batch ever brewed. Kegged less than 1 week after start.
Looks like wheat beer
Smells like fresh mellon... not candy.
Taste is wheat with a finish of mellon.