Alcatraz Wheat Beer

Total Time: 97 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 96 hrs

Ingredients

• 3 lbs dried wheat extract
• 2 lbs wheat malt
• 1 lb barley malt
• 1 lb dried malt extract
• 2 1/2 ounces mt. hood hops
• wyeast wheat beer yeast

Recipe

• 1 make a yeast starter two days beforehand.
• 2 mash the three pounds of malt a la miller.
• 3 boil for one hour, adding 1-1/2 ounces hops at the start, 1/2 ounce at 30 minutes, and 1/2 ounce at 5 minutes.
• 4 cool and pitch yeast.
• 5 ferment.
• 6 bottle.
• 7 i primed half the batch (5 gal) with 1/3 cup corn sugar and the other half with 1/2 cup clover honey.
• 8 after two weeks, the beer was great.
• 9 the beer primed with honey, however, was way too carbonated.
• 10 all you can taste is bubbles.