"I Can't Believe It's Not Banana Bread"

Ingredients:

• 6 lbs Pilsner malt
• 6 lbs Wheat malt
• 1 oz Tettnanger hops
• WLP500 Hefeweizen Ale Yeast

Mash

• Begin with 4 gallons of water and heat it to 131 degrees Fahrenheit. Soak grains at this temperature for 15 minutes (this is known as a protein rest)
• Slowly raise temperature to 151 degrees Fahrenheit and hold this temperature for 75 minutes.
• Heat 3 gallons of sparge water in a separate pot to 171 degrees Fahrenheit, sparge slowly until 7 gallons boil volume is achieved.

Boil

• Raise temperature until pot starts boiling, and set a timer for 60 minutes.
• Add 1oz Tettnanger Hops as soon as boil begins
• Continue boiling until timer expires.

Flameout

• Allow wort to cool to 80 degrees Fahrenheit (you can use a wort chiller or allow this to cool naturally, but the latter may take a while)
• Pitch WLP500 yeast

Fermentation

• Allow wort to ferment to completion. This should take anywhere between 1-2 weeks depending on conditions. Recommend a fermentation temperature of 68-72 degrees Fahrenheit

Finally, keg or bottle as preferred. If kegging, force carbonate until desired carbonation is achieved (at 40psi, we were able to drink it after ~24 hours). If bottling, add bottling sugar to each bottle before filling with beer, and allow to carbonate for at least 1 week.