Workhorse IPA Clone

Ingredients-

Grain:
16 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
1 lb Carapils
1 lb Crystal 40L

Hops:
1.0 oz CTZ @ 60
0.5 oz Nugget @ 60
1.5 oz Citra @ 15
1.0 oz Cascade @ 5
1.0 oz Northern Brewer @ 5
1.0 oz Citra Dry Hop X 7 Days
0.5 oz Cascade Dry Hop X 7 Days
0.5 oz Northern Brewer Dry Hop X 7 Days

Yeast: Safale 04-English Ale (slurry)

OG: 1.070

10MAR2012- Had Gary over for this one. He wanted to check out the brewery and the brew process. Had a great time, caught up on things and chatted a bunch. Everything went pretty well with no major hangups. Excited to see how this brew turns out.

01APR2012- Down to 1.016, transferred to Keg. Tastes great, can't wait for it to be conditioned. ABV 7%

Widmer Hefeweizen Clone aka The Stepheweizen

Ingredients-

Grain:
5 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt
5 lbs Wheat Malt
12 oz Munich
8 oz Crystal 40L

Hops:
0.35 oz Nugget @ 60
0.6 oz Cascade @ 20
0.5 oz Cascade @ 10
0.5 oz Willamette @ 5

Yeast: Wyeast German Ale 1007

Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.033 (adjusted for temp)

OG: 1.050


04MAR2011- Brewed a beer for my wife Stephanie today. This is supposed to be a clone of Widmer's Hefeweizen. Randy gave me the idea of naming it Stepheweizen after I had told him, "I'm making a Hef for Steph." I looked up on Widmer's site for the ingredients and just took my best guess at it. I chose not to try and match their Alchemy blend, and just went with nugget as that is what I had on hand so it brings the price down a little.

I had been bummed about my previous low efficiency so I decided to use a little more water for sparging in an attempt to pull more sugars off the grains and then boil longer to to evaporate more and obtain a higher gravity. I bought more grain than I would need to make sure I wasn't under gravity on this. But as I did better on my temps and insulated well to get the best conversion I ended up being just a few points higher on gravity than Widmer's.

I used the Wyeast German Ale yeast for this as I have read the American Hefeweizen yeast is what lends to the banana-ish flavor. This should be closer to what Widmer uses but they don't list that so I can't be sure.

14MAR2012- Down to 1.012, ABV 5.1%

22MAR2012- The Stepheweizen is pourning now. I still ended up with more esters than I had hoped, lending to the banana-ish flavor. But Steph loves it and that is who it was made for anyways.

Bought a 22oz and did the side by side this evening. My version is a lot darker so I will have to lighten it up the next round. Also, I'll look into a different style fo yeast that hopefully will not leave so many esters behind.