Baggeweizen - Hefeweizen (ish) brewed for Baggebaren, Double Wars XXXV

Posted on 2024-04-23

This is kind of a take on a hefeweizen, which is a wheat beer style from southern Germany. I say “kind of a take on” because the recipe is very much improvised. I needed material to make another 20L of beer for Baggeholm in preparation of Double Wars XXXV and I didn’t have time to order ingredients online due to poor planning. Basically, I put this “recipe” together in the only store nearby that sells any kind of brewing equipment, and their malt supply is… Well, it’s almost generous to call it “lacking”.

Anyway, enough jibber-jabber, here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

Malt	Weight (g)	%
Wheat malt	3000	60
Pilsner malt	1000	20
Munich I malt	1000	20

Hops	Amount	Time	Comment
Perle	10g	@-60min
Perle	10g	@-10min

Ingredient	Amount	Time
Voss Kveik	11g	Post cooling

Mashing schedule

Resting temp	Time
~67C	60m
78C	N/A

Measurements

OG	1.040
FG	1.010
ABV	~4%

Starting date	2024-04-23
Yeast pitched	2024-03-24
Bottled	2024-04-

Water

Mash according to the mashing schedule using (grist weight)*3L water, i.e. (4.5+0.2+0.2+0.1)*3=15L.
Goal volume is about 20L, and with a water retention rate of 0.5-0.6L water/500g grains, roughly 5L will be retained. As such, I will sparge with 20+5-15=10L of water.
My pot has a boil-off rate of about 3L/h, so another 3L of water will be added to compensate.
No water chemistry stuff is being done

Notes

TBA