Wheat/Weizen

Wheat beer is a very popular summertime beverage around the world. Wheat beers are generally low to medium bodied, low hop bitterness and flavor and low alcohol, usually 3.5 to 4.2 percent. Germany produces a distinctive style of wheat beer called weizen. It has a characteristic phenolic spicy aroma and flavor often associated with clove and banana or bubble gum which is produced by the weizen yeast. American wheat beers have a clean crisp flavor profile lacking any of the phenolic characteristic of German Weizen. What is most interesting is that the same recipe will produce either style of beer by just changing the yeast. The Wheat/Weizen contains: Malt extract Milled specialty grain Hops Priming sugar Fining agents SafAle US-05 Ale Yeast or Lalbrew Munich Style German Wheat Yeast Each Bacchus Batches kit is formulated to produce a specific style of beer. Since the quantity and alpha acid in hops vary sometimes significantly from one year to the next or from one bale to the next we adjust the varieties and amounts of hops in Bacchus Batches kit to provide consistent results.