Fermenting: 19/09/2005 Bottled: 27/09/2005
Eastern Suburbs Brewmakers are pretty serious about homebrewing. They cater for people who like to make their beer completely from scratch, well, maybe not completely. But they will supply everything required for the home brewer who wants to mash their own malt.
They have some excellent products for less experienced, but still enthusiastic brewers like me, too. They source fresh wort from the St. Peters Brewery, so you don’t need to get malt extract at all – you buy the real deal, then merely ferment it at home. But their beer packs take some beating.
In this case, I’ve gone with the 3kg Bavarian Wheat pack.
In the style of a German weisse – “toasty” flavour from the 100% wheat malt.
ESB website
Wheat lover’s rejoice! Utilising a liquid yeast, you can produce one of the best wheat beers…ever!
The Country Brewer website
We shall see. First appearances were promising — pale with a spicy aroma. Initial fermentation seems slow, but this is probably due to the lower amounts of sugar in wheat malt as opposed to barley.
Tasting notes: Best wheat beer so far. Nice and pale, but with a grainy and aromatice flavour. Easy to drink, and definately better than the Morgans one. 7/10
How’s it looking dan? Did it come out of the barrel nice and wheaty? Or is is looking a little lager like?
You could say it looked quite cloudy and yeasty. A less generous soul might use the word ‘milky’ instead. Tasted okay, though, and definately seemed more like a wheat beer than that morgans one.
I tried the wheat beer last night – the first half of the bottle tasted a bit like a normal beer, but the clouder bottom section of the bottle tasted almost like hoegaarden. It was great!