Hey Guys and Gals! A strawberry rhubarb wheat beer. Makes 10 gallons.
Ingredients
Step 1
12 lb Belgian pilsner malt
5 lb white wheat
Step 2
0.5 oz Hallertau hops (30 min)
Step 3
WLP001 California ale yeast
Step 4
4 lb strawberries
8 stalks rhubarb, stalks only, no leaves
2 cups sugar
Step 5
3/4 cup priming sugar
Directions
1. Bring 7 gallons of water to about 170 degrees. Add the grains in a grain bag and mash about 60 minutes at about 154 degrees. Remove the grains.
2. Bring to a boil, add the hops and boil 30 minutes.
3. Transfer to the primary, top off with cold water to 10 gallons, aerate and take a gravity reading. At about 72 degrees, pitch the yeast. Ferment 1 week with the carboy a third empty.
4. Clean and chop the strawberries and rhubarb and macerate them in the 2 cups of sugar until soft. Add to the secondary and rack the beer onto them. Let it sit about 1 week.
5. Boil the priming sugar in two pints of water for 5 minutes, pour into the bottling bucket, siphon the beer over it, bottle and cap. Store at 75 degrees for at least the first week to carbonate.