Super Simple Extract Hefeweizen

I found a thread in another homebrew forum for a really simple extract hefeweizen. I don't mean to rip the other post off, I'm just not a member of that forum and I figured Beeradvocate might enjoy my findings. I made a few slight changes to the recipe and thought I'd post it here. I'm hoping for an easy to make and highly drinkable Hefeweizen just in time for spring!

Hefe Sencilla

Ingredients:
5 lbs - Briess Bavarian wheat DME
8 oz - 10L Crystal
1 oz - Tettnang Hops (I used pellets)
WLP300

Notes:
Extract Recipe
60 minute boil
5 Gallon Batch
Original Gravity: 1.048
Final Gravity: 1.011 (expected)
IBU: 15 (expected)

Recipe:
Heat 3 gallons of water to 155f.
Steep 8oz of 10L Crystal for 20 minutes.
Bring to boil and add 2lbs of extract and hops.
At 10 minutes remaining add 3lbs of extract.
Once boil is complete add additional (previously boiled) water to increase volume to 5 gallons.
Cool to 70f and aerate.
Transfer to fermenter and add WLP300.
Ferment for 10 days at ~70f before transferring to bottles.
14 days in bottles and you're ready to drink!


I'm currently in the middle of fermentation so I'll be sure to report back with updates. I've added a few pics, but there isn't really much to see just yet.

 

Thanks, I hope it works out as well. Yeah I wasn't sure where to post, but hopefully when I finish this up in a few weeks and have a recipe that's worth someone else's time.

 

I was hoping I could edit the original post with this info, but it doesn't seem that I can do that. Anyway, here's an update.

UPDATE:
I wasn't able to get to bottling at the 10 day mark, so it ended up fermenting for 12 days.

Final Gravity: 1.011 (perfect!)
Alcohol: 4.9%

The Fastferment really took care of any sediment in the fermenter. I cleared the bulb before transferring to the bottling bucket. The color looks great at this point, with about the clarity you'd expect from a wheat beer.

I used 212 grams of corn sugar (1.06 cups) for priming to aim for 3.6 volumes of co2.

I'll report back in 2 weeks for the first tasting.

 

I always find it amusing that a post can get a few hundred views, but the only thing that drives people to comment is to tell someone they are doing something wrong. Don't worry, I only pulled the hose out of the bucket for a second to snap this picture.

 

Fair enough, thanks for looking out guy.

I popped one open yesterday (at only 1 week in the bottles) just to have a tasting with the family for Easter. It definitely still needs more time (obviously), but I was really pleased with how it came out. It's a little more amber in color than I would have expect for a hefe, but I assume that's due to the 10L steeping grains. Anyways, I think these will all be drunken (drank?) up pretty quickly so I should hopefully avoid all of the long term effects of oxidation. I'll do a final report with pictures this weekend after the full two weeks of bottle conditioning.