I have a wonderful recipe using Ireks wheat in a wheat dopplebock with an
Alexander's dark kicker. This is the only wheat beer I ever liked, strong,
dark, and really tasty. It really is too bad this is not around anymore as
it was one of the best.
Jay
"Denny Conn" <denny.g.conn@ci.eugene.or.us> wrote in message
news:46016348.CC20CADE@ci.eugene.or.us...[color=blue]
> harsley wrote:[color=green]
> >
> > Are you just talking about wheat? or an extract of some sort? If it's
> > just wheat, what makes Ireks so good? if it's an extract, it'll never
> > be 100% because you need barley in the mash.[/color]
>
> When Irek's extract was available, it was 100% wheat. That's what made
> it so unique. All other wheat extracts I'm aware of range from 40-60%
> wheat and the rest barley. And remember, if you use malted wheat, you
> don't need to have other diastatic malts for conversion.
>
> ---------->Denny
>
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> Life begins at 60...1.060, that is.[/color]