Brew #12 – Black Cherry Wheat
10/23/2011 – Brew Day
1.5 lb – White wheat
0.5 lb – Carapils malt
1.5 lb – 2-row malt
5 lb – Wheat extract
1 oz – Perle hop pellets (60 min)
0.5 oz – Mt. Hood hop pellets (15 min)
0.5 oz – Mt. Hood hop pellets (5 min)
OG: 1.051
Included alcohol boost in boil.
Aerated wort for 20 minutes in brew pot with air stone and aerated 2 gal of water in fermenter for 1.5 hrs prior to mixing and adding another 0.5 gal water.
Fermented with White labs California ale V yeast WLP051
11/10/2011 – Racked to secondary
11/12/2011 – Bottled 55 bottles
FG: 1.007, 7.1 %B
5.8% ABV
Added 1 fl. oz. (half the bottle) of black cherry flavoring
Added 4.5 oz priming sugar in 1 pint water