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singlespeedsteve

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Hi,

I want to buy some a beer kit from the Malt Miller, specifically the raspberry wheat beer for 11.5l.
The kit includes the malt and hops and I've added a Safale S-04 to go with it ( as it was in the recommended bit below the kit), does this sound like a decent yeast to go with?
Also as it's a customer recipe it doesn't have the recipe itself, what would anyone recommend as a hop timing? It has 10g of Challenger hops in the kit...

Any help or recommendations would be gratefully received on how to calculate mash and other water volumes as I want to do more all grain brews rather than the extract kits

Thanks
Steve
 
I'd say 60 minutes if it's just that one small hop addition that comes with the kit. (Traditional, at least) wheat beers typically only have a bittering hop addition.
 
Agreed, I did a raspberry wheat last sunday. Hops in at 60 mins. Tho to be awkward I've used a saison yeast :lol:
 
I used US-05 in my raspberry wheat and it came out lovely. I also used challenger and popped in for 60mins as suggested.
 
I assume it's a fruited American Wheat Beer which don't typically have the banana, clove or bubblegum esters a weizen does. Any neutral English or US strain should be suitable.
 
Thanks all
Johnny, that makes sense

So I have one last daft question, is there a calculator, or a rule of thumb, for water volumes for mash, sparge and boil??
 
Specialist wheat beer yeasts are suitable for traditional German weisse/weizen. A raspberry wheat beer isn't that. American Wheat Beers (such as your raspberry one) are more suited to a neutral strain since the yeast is not the desired dominant characteristic. I'm sure taking Johnny's advice wouldn't result in an awful beer, but the profile of a German strain would not interplay well with the fruit IMO.
 
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