Distilling my American Wheat Beer Recipe

[TxBrewing]

WITHOUT HOPS

One of my favorite beers to brew is my American Wheat

50% Wheat
40% 2 Row
10% Vienna

Thought about running it as is, or using it as the base for a UJSM and not adding sugar

Is that too much Wheat?


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[jb-texshine]

Sounds good as is. What temps do you mash in at?

[TxBrewing]

150-154 ish

[ShineRunner]

Sounds interesting. Red or white malted wheat?

I'm sure you've seen the posts around here about mashing at a lower temp. Try to shoot for closer to 145-147 to maximize beta amylase and therefore fermentability. Or try both and see which you like. I haven't experimented with it, but SCD swears the sweetness of a higher FG carries over.

SR

[TxBrewing]

That is a true statement

[ShineRunner]

That is a true statement

Which?

[TxBrewing]

Lower temps create a more fermentable mash. High temps crest more unfermentable sugar and great more body in beer.

Also not boiling the wash will allow the enzymes to continue to work

[TxBrewing]

I hate auto correct

[ShineRunner]

Lower temps create a more fermentable mash. High temps crest more unfermentable sugar and great more body in beer.

Also not boiling the wash will allow the enzymes to continue to work

Right. I know that. What I was saying is that SCD says that that body/sweetness carries over in the distillate. I haven't experimented with this, though.

SR

[TxBrewing]

Ahh ok

This will be my next set of washes, but I want to build a thumper first.

[ShineRunner]

What's your plan with the thumper? Going to try single runs? Stripping on the grain?

Think modular. I'm hoping to get some photos up of my rig soon, but I love the versatility I have of being able to add and remove pieces as necessary.

SR

[TxBrewing]

Absolutely

I run the basic pot still design that can be found here on the site.

The liebig is connected with a union so I can just add the correct length straight pipe to the thumper head and move the condenser to the output.

More to follow when I am not on my phone

[TxBrewing]

So, the reason I want to add a thumper is more than just doing one run because of time.
It has a lot to do with volume as well. To do a spirit run on my set up I have to strip and collect 6 gallons or so of low wines.

This leaves me with a couple gallons of finished product, which in its self is not a bad thing, but time and space are at a premium right now.

The plan would be to prepare a ferment, I can go all grain now, shoot for about 13 gallons of total mash after the fermentation is done.
Put some of that mash in the thumper, and add the heads and tails form the runs before to either the boiler or thumper.
Then run and try to hit around 150-170-ish proof to help keep the flavours.

TXB