nectarine wheatrecipie, hop ideas?

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  1. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,348) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
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    So I'm looking to brew a nectarine wheat next weekend. Simple recipie, 3 lbs wheat lme, 3 lbs light lme, and a pound of light dme with 1 lb of crystal steeped in the wort before my boil. (Btw, is that considered a partial mash). At the end of the boil I will be putting in a pound of crushed nectarines and allowing those to steep for about twenty minutes before a chill the wort. I just can't decide what hops to go with on this recipie. I was thinking about tettanger and mt hood, but I'm not so sure. I'm looking for an ibu of 30 to 35. The mt hood and tettanger gets me there, but I'm not too sure how the flavor of those hops would work together. I don't want to get super hoppy like a gumball hhead or litlle sumpin sumpin, but I want there to be more of a hop presence than easy street or boulevard unfiltered. Any ideas and experiences would be appreciated.
     
    #1 SFACRKnight, Aug 25, 2012
  2. FATC1TY

    FATC1TY Pooh-Bah (2,564) Feb 12, 2012 Georgia
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    Amarillo would lend to the flavor you want but might me a bit more ibus than needed perhaps?

    Amarillow sounds good I there actually, but at this point in time I'm in a brewery drinkin and it all sounds good.
     
    #2 FATC1TY, Aug 25, 2012
  3. JayS2629

    JayS2629 Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2010 Alabama

    I always use Mt. Hood, about 2 oz for 60, in all fruit wheat beers I do.
     
    #3 JayS2629, Aug 26, 2012
  4. axeman9182

    axeman9182 Initiate (0) Aug 5, 2009 New Jersey

    If you're looking to brew a wheat beer, I might suggest going with all wheat extract. I believe the wheat extract is already made up roughly 50/50 from wheat and pilsner malt, so an all grain version of your current recipe would only be about 20% wheat.
     
    #4 axeman9182, Aug 26, 2012
  5. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,348) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
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    I will look into the wheat content of the lme and see if it is a 50/50 blend. If so I'll modify the recipie for sure. Thanks for the heads up on that. As for amarillo, that is the variety of hops used in gumballhead. I think it is an amazing beer, however a little high on ibu's for what I am going for here.

    I'm glad to hear Mt. Hood does well in a fruit wheat beer. Do you bother with using them for flavoring and finishing as well? I was thinking of going 1oz at 60, 1oz at 30, and 1 oz at 10 with a five gallon full boil. Like i said I want there to be a hop presence, but not to the point of it drinking like an APA. I don't think the Mt. Hood carry enough alpha acids to give me a huge hop presence.
     
    #5 SFACRKnight, Aug 26, 2012
  6. JayS2629

    JayS2629 Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2010 Alabama

    If you want to add an oz at 30 it wouldn't hurt, but I'd leave the 10 minute out.
     
    #6 JayS2629, Aug 26, 2012
  7. scray24

    scray24 Initiate (0) Mar 12, 2008 Colorado

    No, a partial mash is where you are using base malts (malts with diastatic power) to convert starches into fermentable sugars but you're supplementing the mash with malt extract.

    For example, if you wanted to do a Rye PA and wanted to use a couple pounds of flaked rye or rye malt, you'd need to mix it with a couple pounds of something (pale, 2 row, 6 row, Maris otter, pilsner, Munich, Vienna, etc) that has the enzymes to start the chemical process. You would need to add several pounds of either dry or liquid malt extract to get to your OG. If you were doing a full mash, you'd just add in another 8-10 pounds of base malt.

    Crystal malts have been kilned/roasted and the sugars have been crystallized/converted to longer chain saccharides (regular brewers yeast - saccaromyces - can only ferment short chain saccharides like glucose, sucrose, maltriose, etc). Crushing and soaking them in hot water (150F) will essentially wash these sugars and flavors out to use in your brewing.

    Cheers!
     
    #7 scray24, Aug 26, 2012
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