Saturday, October 17, 2009

Fallen Wheat 10.16.09


Picked up a can of Munton's Wheat, 3.3 lbs prehopped extract along with a 1 lb bag of Munton's DME, that'll add alot more body to the beer.Had planned on doing a 5 gallon batch with this, then adding 4 oz of Peach exract before adding to the bottling bucket but didnt' have time to pick up the Ale Pale. So for now I split the ingredients, it'll be a 2.13 gallon batch.

I got the water to a nice boil, added 1/2 lb of DME (Dry Malt Exract) , stirred it in real quick that stuff gets hard quick, then poured in half the can of the Wheat extract, stirred that in, poured into the fermenter and pitched the yeast, now all I can do is sit back and let the yeasties do their thing.

I put the remaining Wheat extract into a zip lock bag and into a plastic container that I stuffed in the freezer for now. The DME will stay at room temp as long as it's in a ziplock bag, I'll pick up a Wheat yeast and some Peach extract and I'll make the next batch a Peach Wheat.

Edit 12.01.09: Well here's the finished product, pours well, nice head retention. Decent body, only regret was did not use German yeast , but that i'll do that when I brew up the Hefeweizen, came out pretty good.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Oktoberfest



This was my first Oktoberfest and it came out great, very happy with it, good malt character and dense creamy head of this delicious seasonal brew will surely win anyone over.










Oktoberfest Label