North Coast Brewing Co.’s Blue Star Wheat Beer clone
One of North Coast’s brewery’s summer lawnmower beers. With just enough hop presence and nice body thanks to a healthy heap of wheat malt.
Blue Star Wheat Beer clone
North Coast Brewing Co., California
(5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains)
OG=1.046 FG=1.008
IBU = 18 SRM= 5 ABV = 4.9%
Ingredients
3.3 lbs. (1.5 kg) Briess Wheat liquid malt extract
2.2 lbs. (1 kg) Briess extra light dried malt extract
0.5 lbs. (227 g) Carapils® (Dextrin) malt
3.3 AAU Cascade hops (60 min.) (0.58 oz./16 g of 5.7% alpha acid)
5.7 AAU Cascade hops (15 min.) (1 oz./28 g of 5.7% alpha acid)
2.8 AAU Cascade hops (0 min.) (0.5 oz./14 g of 5.7% Alpha acid)
White Labs WLP001 (California Ale) or Wyeast 1056 (American Ale) or Safale US-05 yeast
O.75 cup corn sugar (for priming)
Step by Step
Steep the crushed malts in 3 gallons (11 L) of water as the temperature comes up to 170 °F (77 °C.). Remove grains from wort, add the malt syrup and dry malt extract and bring to a boil. Add the Cascade hops and boil for 60 minutes. Then add the second addition of Cascade hops for the last 15 minutes of the boil. At the end of the boil add the last addition of Cascade hops for aroma.
Now add wort to 2 gallons (7.6 L) of cool water in a sanitary fermenter, and top off with cool water to 5 gallons (19 L). Cool the wort to 75 ºF (24 °C), aerate the beer and pitch your yeast. Allow the beer to cool over the next few hours to 68 °F (20 °C.), and hold at this temperature until the beer has finished fermenting, then bottle and enjoy!
All-grain option: This is a single step infusion mash. The grain bill for this beer is 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kg.) wheat malt, 5.5 lbs. (2.5 kg.) pale 2-row malt, and 0.5 lbs. (226 g) Carapils® (dextrin). Mash the 3 grains together at 154 °F (68 °C) for 60 minutes. Collect approximately 7 gallons (32 L) of wort to boil for 90 minutes and have a 5 gallon yield (19 L).
