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Joe’s Kitchen Brewery

Hawk Spit Hefe-Weißen

This is a special brew.....here's the story: 

On Friday, November 16, 2001, I spent the day with Mike Snyder (mailto:mike@beerstuff.com), the head brewer at Cedar Brewing, brewing up a batch of his tasty Golden Hawk wheat beer. What a day! Good company, good food, good brew, and I learned quite a bit about how the small commercial brewing process works. Mike's got quite a setup, fairly easy to operate, well-organized, and he knows it like the back of his hand. If you've never done brewing at this scale, let me tell you the brewmeister has quite a busy day. Shoveling 500 lbs or more of steaming hot wet spent grain out of the mash tun is no picnic! 

After the boil and transfer process is complete, there's a bit left over. Mike was kind enough to give me a carboy of wort to experiment with. I had just started a hefeweißen the day prior, so I pitched some of that into the carboy to see if Golden Hawk would make a nice hefe.

11/17/01 - After about 18 hours of no visible activity, all hell broke loose! Very active fermentation, keeps popping the airlock off, and looks like it's boiling inside! Foaming out...had to put a plastic cup over the carboy.

11/19/01 - Finally able to replace the airlock.

11/19/01 - Finally able to replace the airlock.

more notes to follow

250 lbs Briess 2-row malt
150 lbs Briess Wheat malt
5 lbs caramel (60 deg L)
18 oz Tradition - 90 min
6.5 oz Tradition - 15 min
6.0 oz Tradition - 2 min
Produced approximately 263.5 Gallons of wort.

5 gallons of wort from above
Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen yeast

Fermented at approx. 67 deg F

O.G. 1.038 - 11/16/01

F.G. 1.007 - 12/04/01

ABV - 0.0%

Bottled - 12/04/01

Label coming soon