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Berliner Weisse attempt #1

Some quick notes in effort to share details about a recently brewed Berliner Weisse.
Recipe Specifications:

Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal Bottling Volume: 5.28 gal OG: 1.033 SG Estimated Color: 4.3 SRM Estimated IBU: 0.6 IBUs Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 84.0 % Boil Time: 10 Minutes
Amt Name 4.00 g Calcium Chloride (Mash) 4.00 g Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash) 8.0 oz Rice Hulls (Briess) (0.0 SRM) 7.4 % 3 lbs 2.0 oz Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) 46.3 % 3 lbs 2.0 oz Wheat Malt, Dark (Weyermann) (7.0 SRM) 46.3 % 0.13 oz Perle [6.50 %] - Mash 60.0 min 0.6 IBUs
Mash Process:
Name Description Step Temperat Step Time Beta Rest Add 3.00 gal of water at 149.6 F 136.0 F 60 min Alpha Rest Add 1.00 gal of water at 207.8 F 152.0 F 15 min Decoction Decoct 1.10 gal of mash and boil it 166.0 F 20 min
Notes:
Used the following sources for recipe research
  • http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2010/05/double-berliner-weisse-brew.html
  • http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2009/07/cabernet-berliner-weiss.html
  • http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2008/02/berliner-weiss.html
  • Mash Schedule from 'Brewing with Wheat' (Hieronymous); page 174 Traditional Berliner Weisse recipe.
  • NHC 2012 Berliner Weisse Presentation notes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hClp9huB1M
  • Recipe and Process notes from Rick Stafford's 46 point BW
  • Conversation with Julian (and his lacto starter)

12/27/12
Mashed in at 136. rest for 1 hour
added boiling water to raise temp to 152, hit 153. rest 15 mins
pulled thick decoction, about 1 gallon. Add hops and boil for 20 mins
Added rice hulls to mash tun.
return decoction to mash tun - only raised temp to 160
heated mash and added boiling water to raise temp to 166. rested 10 mins
added a couple more hop pellets to mash, vorlaufed and drained into kettle
batch sparged with about 1/2 gallon of water and added about 1 gallon water to kettle.
Collected about 5 gallons at 8.2 brix (1.033)

Boiled for 10 mins. (No hops in boil)
Chilled to 90 degrees and drained into fermenter.

OG 8.2 brix (1.033)
Added 2L lacto starter - nice sharp tartness. fruity, tangy with a bready/sourdough aftertaste. yum.
Meant to check PH of starter - spaced it.
Set temp control to 90f.

12/29/12
finally seeing a healthy krausen and vigorous ferment. Blowoff tube needed.

Next Steps:
Planned for 1/1/13 - cool to the mid 60's and pitch Wyeast 1007 Geman Ale Yeast and ferment 7+ days
Planned for at packaging: pitch whitelabs WLP645 Brettanomyces Claussenii

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