Sea Dog Brewing Company: Blue Paw Wheat Ale clone
The Silver medal winner in the 2007 World Beer Championships, this wheat beer benefits from the added aroma and subtle fruit flavor of blueberries.
Sea Dog Brewing Company: Blue Paw Wheat Ale
(5 gallons/19 L all-grain)
OG = 1.050 FG = 1.012
IBUs = 20 SRM = 4 ABV = 4.9%
Ingredients
6.5 lbs. (2.9 kg) 2-row pale malt
3.5 lbs. (1.6 kg) wheat malt
4 oz. (0.11 kg) Munich malt
4 AAU Hallertau hop pellets (60 min.) (1 oz./28 g at 4% alpha acids)
2.5 AAU Willamette hop pellets (25 min.) (0.5 oz./14 g at 5% alpha acids)
2 oz. (57 mL) concentrated liquid blueberry extract
1/2 tsp. yeast nutrient (15 min.)
White Labs WLP005 (English Ale) or Wyeast 1187 (Ringwood ale) yeast
3/4 cup (150 g) dextrose (if priming)
Step by Step
This is a single step infusion mash. Mix the crushed grains with 3.2 gallons (13.3 L) of 168 °F (76 °C) water to stabilize at 152 °F (67 °C) for 60 minutes. Sparge slowly with 175 °F (79 °C) water. Collect approximately 6 gallons (23 L) of wort runoff to boil for 60 minutes.
Add hops at times indicated. Cool the wort to 75 °F (24 °C). Pitch yeast and aerate the wort heavily. Allow the beer to cool over the next few hours to 66 °F (19 °C) and hold at this temperature until the beer has finished fermenting. Transfer to a carboy and add the blueberry extract while stirring very slowly.
Condition for one week and then bottle or keg.
Extract with grains option: Substitute the 2-row pale malt in the all-grain recipe with 6.6 lbs. (3.kg) Muntons unhopped wheat liquid malt extract and decrease the wheat malt to 4 oz. (0.11 kg) and the Munich malt to 2 oz. (57g). Steep the crushed grains in 5.5 gallons (21 L) of water at 155 °F (68 °C) for 30 minutes. Remove grains from the wort, add the malt extract and bring to a boil. Follow the remaining portion of the all-grain recipe.
