Well, the wife wants me to do a wheat beer. Think I'm going to just make a mini-batch, maybe 2g. Anyone have any good recipes for a complex, engaging wheat beer? I'm thinking I may go with a Gumballhead clone, so if anyone has a good recipe for that I'd love to see it- I've seen a couple that look pretty solid.
American Wheat 1 gallon 1 Lb Raher 2 row 12 oz Rather Wheat malt 4 oz Caravienne or Caramel 20L 1 oz Cascade hops 1/4 oz Cascade hops - 60 min 1/4 oz Cascade hops - 30 min Tsp Irish moss () - 10 min 1/2 oz Cascade hops - 1 min brow that on 5 gallon today
What kind of wheat beer does your wife like? If my wife asked me to brew anything, I would try to do exactly what she wanted to score husband points. You can cash those things in for kegging set-ups, conical fermenters, and all kinds of other homebrew goodies.
pweis909 is right. Mine wants me to do a cocoa porter for her. Been looking for a good one... if I hit it, she'll be on board even more than she is already.
She likes Alpine Willy A LOT. She also digs Gumballhead. I'm thinkin of doing Gumballhead clone or just a heavily amarillo hopped wheat.
I agree with the others, and another great way to win points is involve her in every step, and then call it her beer. Also, I made a great overhopped hefeweizen this past spring. Saphir/pacifica/amarillo hop burst to ~20ibus, 2oz dryhops, wlp380 yeast. It was damn tasty for the first 6 weeks in bottles, then it started to fall off.
I made something like this last year - hefe with amarillo finishing. Mmm. I know some think the hops and yeast can clash, but I found wonders in that mix.
