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JT’s Honey Wheat Ale (No Boil Recipe)

5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains; OG = 1.050; FG = 1.012; IBU = ?; SRM = 4+; ABV = 4.8%

Ingredients:

• 6.6 lbs. (3.0 kg) Coopers Wheat liquid malt extract (hopped)
• 1.0 lb. (0.45 kg) orange blossom honey
• Fermentis US-56 dried yeast (2 packages)
• 1.0 cup corn sugar (for priming)

Step by Step

Heat 2.0 gallons (7.6 L) of water to 180 °F (82 °C). Turn off the heat. With a (clean) spoon, stir in the malt extract and honey until completely dissolved. Take the temperature of the wort with a (clean) thermometer. If wort is under 170 °F (77 °C), heat to 170 °F (77 °C). Turn off heat.

Put a lid on your brewpot and let it sit, undisturbed for 15 minutes. Then, place your brewpot in cold water in your sink. Change the water in the sink when it gets warm until wort cools such that the side of brewpot feels cool to the touch. Combine wort with water in fermenter to make 5 gallons (19 L), aerate and add dried yeast. Let ferment at 68 °F (20 °C) for 10 days, then rack to bottling bucket and bottle with corn sugar.

Fruit beer option:

When beer has fermented, put 7.0 lbs. (23.2 kg) of frozen raspberries in a sanitized fermentation bucket. Rack beer onto raspberries, seal fermenter and let sit for 1 week before bottling.