Alcatraz Wheat Beer

Bj?rnH Holmberg's Note:

In direct taste tests, this beer has more body than WheatHook, and is slightly sweeter. Compared to EKU, the beer is similar, but EKU Wiezen is slightly sweeter. Original Gravity: 1.057 Final Gravity: 10.12

• Total Time: 97 hrs
• Prep Time: 1 hrs
• Cook Time: 96 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 4 Gallons

• 3 lbs dried wheat extract
• 2 lbs wheat malt
• 1 lb barley malt
• 1 lb dried malt extract
• 2 ½ ounces mt. hood hops
• wyeast wheat beer yeast

Directions:

1. Make a yeast starter two days beforehand.
2. Mash the three pounds of malt a la Miller.
3. Boil for one hour, adding 1-1/2 ounces hops at the start, 1/2 ounce at 30 minutes, and 1/2 ounce at 5 minutes.
4. Cool and pitch yeast.
5. Ferment.
6. Bottle.
7. I primed half the batch (5 gal) with 1/3 cup corn sugar and the other half with 1/2 cup clover honey.
8. After two weeks, the beer was great.
9. The beer primed with honey, however, was way too carbonated.
10. All you can taste is bubbles.