Beez Neez Clone Recipe

Beez Neez Clone Recipe

‘Honey Wheat’ Recipe Instructions

This recipe is available as an Aussie Brewmakers Recipe Kit, order no. 19820

This recipe is another Matilda Bay favourite of Aussie Brewmakers – the Beez Neez clone which is a honey wheat beer. This recipe is another great introduction to experimenting with hops and grains for the beginner or ‘tin kit’ brewer.

Ingredients:

• 1 x 1.7kg Morgan’s Golden Sheaf Wheat Beer Kit
• 1 x 1.5kg Coopers Liquid Malt -Wheat
• 1 x 15g Premium Wheat Yeast
• 1 x 150g Cracked Wheat Grain (steeped)
• 1 x 12g Cluster Finishing Hops (steeped)

Other Ingredients:

• 500g Capillano Honey – available from any supermarket
• 200g of Dextrose if kegging with no secondary fermentation

Method:

1. Clean / sterilize all equipment including fermenter, paddle, mug and jug (used for steeping)
2. Discard Morgan’s Golden Sheaf Wheat Beer tin yeast and sit tin along with Honey jar and Coopers Liquid Wheat Malt tin in hot water for 10 minutes to loosen contents
3. Boil 1.25L of water in kettle
4. Steep 12g of Cluster Finishing Hops in 250ml of boiled water for 10 minutes
5. Steep 150g of Cracked Wheat Grain in 1L of boiled water for 15 minutes
6. Re-boil 2L water in kettle
7. Add 1.5L of boiled water to fermenter with malt tin contents and stir vigorously to dissolve
8. Pour 250ml boiled water into malt tin and stir to dissolve remaining contents, then add to fermenter
9. Add beer kit tin to fermenter and stir vigorously to dissolve
10. Pour 250 ml boiled water into beer tin and stir to dissolve remaining contents, then add to fermenter
11. Re-boil 1L of water in kettle
12. Strain steeped grain liquid into fermenter and rinse with c. 500ml boiled water (do not add grain to fermenter)
13. Add 500g Capillano Honey to fermenter and rinse jar with some boiled water and add to fermenter
14. Add Cluster Finishing Hops teabag and steeped water to fermenter
15. Add cold water to fermenter to 22.5L and test temperature – make sure it is between 18-24 degrees before pitching yeast
16. Take Hydrometer reading and then pitch 15g Premium Wheat Yeast and stir gently
17. When fermentation finished check with hydrometer and bottle as per normal.

N.B. If kegging, add 200g of Dextrose at step 7