Jour Hadique's Honey Wheat

So the honey wheat beer is officially kegged and done and amazing, and it received a cool rhyming name...whenever i get an idea maybe i'll make a label. None the less, here is a picture of the finished product...



Also it is pictured in my new Sam Adams Ultimate Beer Cup which for the most part is cool...over hyped, but cool


As for the beer, it seems the force carbonating worked, i think it probably could use a bit more carbonation, as it doesn't retain it's head to well, but it seems to be fully carbonated. As for the flavor, I must say this is the first homebrew that we have made here at 1055 that really tastes like a normal beer. Not saying that this i our best beer, I like some of the other ones better, but it doesn't have that homebrewed taste, that if some of you had homebrewed or tried homebrew, most of them have. This tastes like an actual commercial beer. Overall, it has a nice wheat characteristic, I really cannot taste the honey to much, other people claim there is more honey flavor in it then i can notice, but I do defiently smell it in the aroma

Also i am very happy with the irish moss and I am almost certain i will use it in future beers, as my beer is not as clear as a filtered but not as cloudy as an unfiltered.

Well, thats all you get about this one...stop on bye if you want to try one.

Honey Wheat Beer Part 2

Today we kegged the honey wheat beer, and from the small samples i tried I am very pleased with it. Only possible problem was there was a bit of stuff that could have been mold floating at the top, but we were able to keep that out of the keg (we are not exactly sure that it was mold though). Also, I was very impressed with the performance of the Irish Moss, at first I was quite skeptical about it seeing that I cannot imagine a teaspoon of grains clarifying a beer, but I was proven wrong. It ended up with a final gravity of 1.004, which left us with an alcohol content of 6.23% alcohol, which seems a little high for a wheat beer, but considering that we added so much honey I can understand it. As for taste, it is hard to tell as of right now since when the beer carbonates it really brings out the true flavors, but it seemed like a good solid wheat beer with the honey providing a good background flavor. We also realized our issues with kegging from last time (it ended up we conditioned and force carbonated), so we hope that this beer will have beer CO2 levels then our Stout, which although was amazing was a bit to carbonated. As for the look (pictures below), I kinda wished it was a bit lighter, but what are you gonna do...and the aroma seemed good...enjoy the pictures, in about 2 days i'll post final thoughts once i have it in it's full glory.

This here is a picture right before we took the final gravity. unfortunately in this picture it is hard to see the clarity, but you can easily see through it.

















Here is when we were racking it, just thought you might want to see this...party on

Honey Wheat Beer

So about two weeks ago we made a honey wheat ale, and right now it is chillin in the secondary fermenter, here is a picture:


For whatever reason in the fermenter it looks a lot darker then it is, when i was siphoning it, the color was alot lighter, and looked almost like a pale ale. None the less, it should be ready for conditioning in about a week or two, but from the initial tastes i am very very excited about this beer.

OG: 1.050
FG: ? (probably close to 1.001)

Recipe

5lbs American Wheat
3 lbs Crystal Malt 10
5 lbs American 2-Row pale
3 lbs Orange Clover Honey (added to the boil)
1 oz Tettnag Hops (added for the last 45 min of boil)
1 oz Cascade Hops (added for the last 15 min of boil)
California V Yeast (WLP051)
5.5 Gallons of Fresh Pittsburgh tap water

Welcome

Hello everybody, welcome to a blog that documents my boredom and my beer brewing in the summer time. What you will find here is a run down of what is being Brewed at 1055 Morewood ave

So a bit of history, 1055 brewery is ran by myself (vince) and my friend jon (but he is gone now so i guess i will continue on the history taking all the credit) around the beginning of summer 2006. Since then we have brewed about 5-6 different beers, and it has been fun. When looking through out different beers you will notice all the weird names, these are just little inside jokes and whatnots from our fraternity at carnegie mellon university.

But none the less, here is a quick run down of what the 1055 Brewery has turned out in the past year or so of brewing (in chronological order)...

1) Pilsner - first beer we made, wasn't anything to special, just a simple pilsner, we did this completely from a kit, so i'm not sure if i would refer to it as an actual 1055 Beer, but we made it so fuck you.

2) Poling Tree Maple Brown Ale - Our second brew, we did this one with extracts and grains, and it turned out great, possibly one of the best beers we made and it was basically our first attempt at brewing ourselves. This one was a simple brown ale recipe that we added all natural maple syrup to. It came out a nice rich tasting beer with just a hint of maple in the background. This will probably be remade as an all grain recipe in the near future.

3) Double Ringer Summertime Wheat (Belgian Wit) - This was another extract with grains attempt, and it was an attempt at a Belgian Wit beer. This beer was very reminiscent of Celis White (great beer), but a bit more bitter. I must say though, i actually have a few of these left, and I drink one every once in a while and it really has aged well, it tastes significantly more smooth, and more flavorful.

4) Puddles Pale Ale (American Pale Ale) - This was our first attempt at making an all-grain beer, and it came out amazing. This beer, which was around 6-7% alcohol had all the great makings of an amazing American Pale Ale. Had good levels of bitterness, but wasn't as bitter as an IPA, i am really looking forward to making this one again.

5) Blackout Cider (Apple Cider) - Though was called it a cider, it really was more of an Apple Wine, clocking in at around 20% alcohol, this was quite potent. We ended up using champaign yeast, so the final product is quite dry, and not easy to drink quickly, but still a good drink.

6) Oatmeal Porter - After visiting rock bottom and having an amazing oatmeal porter there we decided to take a shot at it ourselves, this was a typical porter, with roasted oats added, unfortionatly we screwed up the carbonation levels, so you had to wait out the high levels of head before you could consume it, but overall it was an excellent brew.

So that is all the brews that we have completed, so look for some updates on beers that i am making, different beer reviews, and eventually i will get around to posting all the recipes of all those beers listed above