Project Beer - Banana Exbeerience
Recipe source: https://brauerei.mueggelland.de/rezeptdetails/items/126.html
Description
The Banana Exbeerience is a pale wheat beer in the German way. In the glass, the beer should appear as a light and cloudy drink. The color should be around 8 on the scale from the European Brewery Convention (EBC). The taste has notes of banana and is very mild. It should be around the designated International Bittering Unit (IBU) of 12. The final volume of alcohol should be around 5.4% and therefore a nice drink to a nice meal.
Preparation
Ingredients
- Malts:
- 1800 g Rahr white wheat malt crushed
- 1500 g Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner crushed
- 370 g Briess Bonlander Munich Malt
- 100 g Weyermann Acidulated Malt
- Hops:
- 2 times 11.1 g Tettnanger
- Yeast:
- 18.5 g WYEAST 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen
- Sugar:
- 115 g Sucrose
Planned process
- Grain is pre Malted and Milled
- Mashing preparation (mix the mash)
| type | Name | amount | comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Wheat Malt | Rahr white wheat malt crushed - F1751105 | 1800g | crushed |
| Pilsner Malt | Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner crushed - F1751105 | 1500g | crushed |
| Münchner Malt Type I | Briess Bonlander Munich Malt - F2481906 | 370g | uncrushed |
| Acidulated Malt | Weyermann Acidulated Malt - W370l | 100g | uncrushed |
- Mashing
- 3770g pouring mashing into 11.7 liters of water at 49 °C results in 43 °C. Rest for 20 minutes.
- Heat up to 63 °C. 30 minutes rest.
- Heat up to 72 °C. 30 minutes rest.
- Heat up to 78 °C. 10 minutes rest.
- Mashing when iodine normal
| Time | target water temperature | task |
|---|---|---|
| 0 min | 43 °C | 3770g pouring mashing into 11.7 liters of water with 43 °C |
| 20 min | 63 °C | heating up |
| 50 min | 72 °C | heating up |
| 80 min | 78 °C | heating Type I |
| 90 min | - | Mashing when iodine normal |
- Cook
- Fill mash in cooking vessel
- add ~ 10l water
- Cook time 70min
| Time left | amount | Hop type | Alpha Acid (AA) | IBUs | Utilization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 min | 11.1g | Tettnanger | 23.7% | 6 IBU | pre wort |
| 70 min | - | Start Cooking | - | - | - |
| 70 min | 11.1g | Tettnanger | 25.9% | 6 IBU | Cooking wort |
- Fermentation
- Aimed OG 1.053
- 18.5g - WYEAST 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen
Protocol 🍺
29 Mar 2018
- Milling
- Crush Münchner Malt Type I
- Crush Acidulated Malt
- Mashing
- Measuring
- Acidulated Malt 100g
- Münchner Malt Type I 370g
- White Wheat Malt 1800g
- Pilsner Malt 1500g
- Procedure table
- Measuring
| Time | target water temperature | description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 min | 43 °C | 3770g pouring mashing into 9.43 liters of water with 47.7 °C |
| - | - | 25 min rest |
| 25 min | 63 °C | Infuse Mash tun with ~7 liters of boiling water |
| - | - | 30 min rest |
| 55 min | 72 °C | Infuse Mash tun with ~ 13 liters of boiling water |
| - | - | 32 min rest |
| 87 min | 78 °C, only °C was reached | Infuse Mash tun with ~ 14 liters of boiling water |
| - | - | 10 min rest |
- Sparging
- Sparge entire pot
- Sparge a second time to get anything out of the mash
- end up with 30 l (8 gal) of wort
- Boiling down
- reduce volume of the wort to 6 gal
- Boiling and Chilling
- Due to the wort volume problem we combined the 80min pre wort and the 70min cooking hops.
- 3:55 pm - 70min left - add hops (Tettnanger)
- 5:07 pm - 0 min left - Start Chilling
- 5:15 pm - Chilling done 17 °C
- Fermenting
- Original Gravity (OG): 1.031
- Fill into fermenting vessel
- Add Yeast
04 Apr 2018
- Transfer wort to 2nd fertilization bottle
- 1 Week of fertilization
- Gravity: 1.006
12 Apr 2018
- Sanitize Bottles and filling tools
- Preparing Priming sugar 115 g (Sucrose) in 550 ml water boil for 10 min
- Final gravity Test
- Alcohol By Volume: 3.41%
- Apparent Attenuation: 84%
- Calories: 100.0 per 12oz bottle
- Original Gravity: 7.80 °P, 1.031
- Final Gravity: 1.28 °P, 1.005
- Add priming sugar to the beer, target carbonation 2.6 vol
- Transfer wort into bottles
Stats
- Calculated IBU: 14.66
- Alcohol By Volume: 3.41%
- Apparent Attenuation: 84%
- Calories: 100.0 per 12 oz bottle
- Original Gravity: 7.80 °P, 1.031
- Final Gravity: 1.28 °P, 1.005
Beer Scoresheet
Descriptor Definitions
- Estery
Aroma
- Nice clear aroma
- Score 10/12
Appearance
- SRM: 5
- Cloudy
- Thin crown
- Score 3/3
Flavor
- Slightly Banana
- non bitter
- could be stronger
- Score 16/20
Mouthfeel
- slight carbonation
- slight creaminess
- Score 4/5
Overall Impression
- A delicious thirst-quenching wheat beer for a beautiful day in the beer garden.
- The carbonation could be a little stronger.
- Scorce 8/10
Score 41/50
Stylistic Accuracy
- Classic Example [ ] [ ] [x] [ ] [ ] Not to Style
Technical Merit
- Flawless [ ] [x] [ ] [ ] [ ] Significant Flaws
Intangibles
- Wonderful [ ] [x] [ ] [ ] [ ] Lifeless