This recipe produces an excellent summer beer. Light in body, but with a nice hop Flavor and nose to make it
enjoyable to drink. I also use this as the base for my fruit beers. With 5 lbs. of blueberries added to the
secondary it is truely special!
Al's Amber Wheat Beer
Ingredients (5 or 6 gallon batch):
3.3# Can Mutton and Fisson Light Unhopped Extract
2.0# Bag of Unhopped Wheat Dry malt
1.0 oz. Cascade Leaf Hops (Boil)
0.25 oz. Cascade Leaf Hops (Flavor)
0.25 oz. Cascade Leaf Hops (Aroma)
1 tsp. Irish moss
2 Packages Mutton and Fisson Ale Yeast
Procedure:
Remove 1 1/4 cup of wheat malt and save in zip-lock bag for priming.
Bring 1.5 Gallons water and Malts to a boil. When boil starts fully set your stove timer (watch, hourglass,
whatever) to 45 mins. For leaf hops I don't use a hop bag, you can if it makes you feel good.
45 Mins: Add Boil Hops - 1.0 oz.
15 Mins: Add Irish moss - 1 tsp.
10 Mins: Add Flavor Hops - .25 oz.
2 Mins: Add Aroma Hops - .25 oz.
0 Mins: Pour through strainer and funnel(with strainer) directly into carboy with 2+ gallons of cold water as
quickly as possible. Fill to top with more cold tap water. swirl carboy to mix hot and cold evenly. Pitch
yeast.
Notes. This could also be a blonde wheat ale if M+F malt was replaced with a lighter colored malt - say
mountmellick unhopped light. Also, If you buy hops in 1 oz. packages you could boost the aroma and flavor
hops to .5 oz. each. This shoudn't bee too much. Or save the extra .5 oz. and make Papazians Avigadro's
Expiditious Old Ale which needs exactly .5 oz of cascade hops!