DIY Sunkissed Weiss
It’s a little late to make a beer in time for Mother’s Day, but if you want to make a great beer with your mother in mind, try the DIY Sunkissed Weiss beer recipe. The name itself should inspire your mom.
I put together this easy recipe yesterday (see the picture of my ingredients below).
I made some slight modifications to the original recipe. I substituted Wheat malt extract for the Light malt extract. Knowing that the
Wheat malt extract is not 100% wheat and the Coopers Wheat Beer kit is not 100% Wheat, I wanted to include more wheat malt (flavor) in the beer. I also substituted Red Wheat Malt for the Crystal Wheat malt. I am not sure but I think this will have better result. Crystal malts are roasted malts and thus are not fermentable but more of a dextrin malt adding sweetness and body. The Red Wheat malt that is used I mashed using a muslin bag by steeping for an hour. My last change to recipe was my addition of 1 more ounce of Perle hop pellets.
Ingredients
1.7 kg Thomas Coopers Wheat Beer
1.5 kg Thomas Coopers Wheat Extract
10 oz red wheat malt
2 oz Perle Hop pellets
11 grams dry Munich yeast
I followed the procedures on the the recipe sheet almost exactly. After about 26 hours, the fermentation was proceeding perfectly at 22 degrees Celsius (see picture below). A quick simple taste revealed a nice hefeweizen in progress. Cheers!!
