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Beer - Batch 005

A fairly light wheat ale with honey and fresh grated ginger.

Brewing Information:

Date of Brewing: April 10th, 2004
Batch: 005
Name: -
Style: Honey Ginger Wheat Ale
Volume: 5 gallons
Recipe Source: Modifed version of Linda's Lovely Light Honey Ginger Lager from The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing found on page 212.
Ingredients:
  • 2 lbs. Crosby & Baker Ltd. Munton's Light Dried Malt Extract (Color 8 EBC/Lovibond 3.5)
  • 2 lbs. Crosby & Baker Ltd. Munton's Wheat Dried Malt Extract
  • 1 oz. Crosby & Baker Ltd. Cascade Hop Pellets, Alpha 5.3%, 0.5 oz. Finishing, 0.5 oz. Boiling
  • 1 oz. Crosby & Baker Ltd. Cascade Whole Leaf Hops, Alpha 6.0%, Boiling Hops
  • 1 package - 1.75oz. Brewer's Choice Wyeast Pure Yeast Cultures, #1098 British Ale
  • 3.5 oz. Fresh Grated Ginger
  • 3 lbs. Doan's Honey Farm Pure Clover Honey
  • 5 gallons - Wegmans Spring Water, Sodium Free
Time of boil: 1 hour
Hops: Boiling hops added after addition of malt extract. Finishing hops added 3 minutes before sparging.
Temperature of wort when yeast pitched: 65° Fahrenheit.
Beginning specific gravity: 1.054 at 65° Fahrenheit = 7.3% ABV mark, 13.4° Plato.
Date of transfer to brightening tank: April 21st, 2004
Specific gravity at transfer time: 1.010 at 65° Fahrenheit = 1.4% ABV mark, 2.6° Plato.
Date of bottling: -
Bottling agent: -
Specific gravity at bottling time: -
Date of first taste: -
Taste Evaluation: -
Notes:
  • Honey hot breaks as well as the malt.
  • Whole hop leaves are much easier to sparge out than the pellets.
  • Honey makes the beer foam easily.

Pictures:

Our ingredients.

New York clover honey.

British ale yeast.

Fresh ginger.

Light malted barley extract.

Cascade hops in pellet and whole leaf forms.

Malted wheat extract.

Boiling the wort.

A plate of whole leaf hops, they plumped up into full hop cones when in the wort.

An accident with a hot burner and a bad of malt extract...

Adding the honey.

Yay! Teamwork!

The green beer, just beginning to ferment.

A light color for the beers we have been making.

The honey seems to allow a lot of foam to form on top when the beer is aerated.

(High resolution versions can be found here.)