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[wengared]

I'm brewing a wheat and nopticed that the aa for my hallertau leaf is 4.1 %, and the recipe calculater gives it 6.0% for whole and plug, will the leafs give me enough? i'm going .5 oz for 60 min and .5oz for 15 min. 5 gal. batch.

[MyaCullen]

to get the same IBU's from the 4.1%AA you'll need to increase the .5 oz to .68 oz in the 60 minute addition. The 15 minute addition would be unaffected IMO.Edit too add If you only have 1 oz to work with you could do 5/8 @ 60 min and 3/8 @ 15 minutes.

Edited by mikeinspokane, 19 April 2009 - 10:40 AM.

[Big Nake]

What should the final IBUs be for the recipe? And what is the hop schedule supposed to be? If the original recipe says 1/2 oz @ 6% for 60 and then another 1/2 oz 6% for 15 minutes, it sounds like you won't have enough. Strange that a recipe would call for an ounce of Hallertau at 6% considering that I'm not sure I've ever seen them above 5% in 10 years of brewing. Do you have any other hops? If not, I'd go 3/4 oz (about 3 AAU... which is what the recipe would be calling for) for 60 and then 1/4 oz for 15 minutes. It won't be exactly the same, but it would be better than 1/2 oz at each addition. Good luck.

[earthtone]

what ken said...situations like this make me love recipes that list hops in terms of AAUs.

[MyaCullen]

what ken said...situations like this make me love recipes that list hops in terms of AAUs.

that would be niceAs long as you know the estimated IBU of the finished brew it fairly easy to extrapolate the amount of a certain AA% hop to use. But Ideally listing hops as AA units is better.

[wengared]

I've got 2 oz each of hallertau leaf, e.kent golding leaf , saaz pellet, cascade pellet, williamette pellet and sterling pellet, this is a recipe i put together this morning on tasty brew calculater, SHWBO and i haven't decided wheather to add fruit in the secondary yet Raspberry), si didn't want the high hop. am i wrong?

[earthtone]

hallertau is a good choice. I like saaz when I have had it with fruit, but even the kind of fruit can change that - I had an apricot beer with some citrusy C hops that was actually very pleasant....but it probably wouldn't go as nicely with raspberry.Post your recipe, it'll give us a better idea what you are looking at but I would say probably stick to hallertau or (IMHO) hallertau and saaz blend...

[wengared]

boil volume 5.5.gal.5 gal.batch4 lb. LME3 lb. american wheat3 lb. cyrstal 20l1 lb flaked wheat steeped grains at 150 dgree for 60 min..5 oz hallertau leaf 60 min.5 oz hallertau leaf for 15 min.

Edited by wengared, 19 April 2009 - 11:05 AM.

[Sidney Porter]

3lbs or crystal is a lot. have you made this recipe before?

[wengared]

3lbs or crystal is a lot. have you made this recipe before?

no

[earthtone]

I don't think I've ever made something with that much crystal....I would definitely want more bitterness to balance the inevitably higher FG if you were to go ahead with that much crystal malt.... especially since you are using extract in this one....

[MyaCullen]

I don't think I've ever made something with that much crystal....I would definitely want more bitterness to balance the inevitably higher FG if you were to go ahead with that much crystal malt.... especially since you are using extract in this one....

yes, that is a lot of crystal, 1/2 of that would be a lot of crystal. I'd cut the crystal down to no mare than 1.5 lbs of crystal. You should also consider putting at least 1.5 lbs of 2-row into this to help the Wheat Malt convert.

[wengared]

I had been going over recipes on the web, the chyrstal was a lb. more then any thing i'd seen, and as you point out i will probably go more 2 row and cut the chrystal back., it's in the carboy now, 1.052 o.g. with wb-06 yeast, and i also went .75 oz hallertau for 60" and .25 oz for 15". as i said we'll probably dump some raspberries in the secondary unless it turns out bad then drain time, or i'll give to my brother, he thinks keystone light is good beer.