Hefeweizen & Cherry Hef

brewing

With the summer coming up we decided to brew something good to drink in the hopeful event of sunshine in Edinburgh. We’d not done a Hef before so thought now’d be a good time. Due to it being the season, we also made this our first experiment proper with cherry addition and aging.

Grain Bill

  • 0.5kg Acid Malt
  • 6.5kg Wheat Malt
  • 2kg CaraHell
  • 0.5kg Melanoidin
  • 1kg Spelt Malt

Mashed for an hour at 65C

Liquor to Grist: 2.5 : 1 (Approx.)

Boil

Boiled for 90 minutes, with the following fun additions:

  • 60 min: 20g Perle (7.1AA)
  • 30 min: 10g Perle (7.1AA)
  • 10 min: 50g Hallertauer Mittelfruh (2.8AA)
  • 1 min/end: 50g Hallertauer Mittelfruh (2.8AA)

Post-Boil

Due to a miscalculation we ended up with a little more of this than planned and so with a lower OG.

Yeast

Hefeweizen Yeast

  • OG: 1.034
  • FG: 1.0085
  • ABV: 3.34%

Cherry Version

9 Litres with 2Kg Spanish Cherries, frozen, defrosted, crushed.

Final Gravity after 1 month in FV = 1.007

Result

Unhampered by a lower ABV, this was delicious. The cherry version turned out great, a pale red with a nice but not rich cherry flavour.

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