First Pour - Cherry Wheat

Tried the Cherry Wheat on Saturday.  It had great head on it, that lingered for a while.  I had to drink down some of the foam in order to get the rest of the beer out of the bottle.  The cherry flavor was subtle, would add it later in the fermentation process next time, perhaps after 10 days instead of 7.  It has a nice color and is cloudy like a good wheat beer should be.  Still has a bit of a dry finish, so I'll let this condition for two more weeks before trying it again.

0007 - White IPA (Seasonal)

My first Mr. Beer seasonal, the White IPA for Spring 2012.  This can is huge, 3.75 pounds of hopped malt extract.  Includes a spice pack and an 11g packet of specialty yeast (Safbrew T58).  This one is going into the Brew Demon conical due to its extra head space.  I've modified the conical a bit, adding a more robust spigot to it.  There have been some issues over at Mr. Beer with these things breaking during the brewing cycle.  Haven't heard of any Brew Demon ones breaking (the spigots are from the same supplier), but don't want to take any chances.  Will covert the other two conicals to this spigot once I pick up some more from the LHBS.

Don't have any Qbrew info for this brew as it isn't in the database.   From the Mr. Beer website:

This White IPA is a flavorsome modification of a traditional IPA. An exciting fusion of complex citrus and melon hop flavors characteristics to an American IPA, balanced with coriander, orange peel, lemon and the velvety characters of wheat malt typical of a Belgian Witbier. Pale in color with a tightly packed white head, spicy notes and crisp finish. 

Flavor: Hoppy
ABV (alc/vol): 6.5%
SRM (Color): 5
IBU (Bitterness): 60

Brewed it up on 2013/04/07 so it will be ready before Spring is over.  If you are interested in the conical brewing system, check out Brew Demon Conical Fermenters.

Update: 2013/04/28:
Bottled this one up today.  Sample was interesting, had a flavor I'm not used to.  Wasn't a bad flavor, just different.  Not sure if it is the coriander or something else.  Also found out I didn't do a very good job of crushing the coriander seeds in the spice packet.  I estimate about 80% of them were still whole.

0006 - Bavarian Weissbier

Brewed up a Mr. Beer recipe yesterday, the Bavarian Weissbier.  Should be a good summer beer, perhaps with a slice of orange tossed in.


0006 - Bavarian Weissbier
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Brewer: James
Style: Weizen/Weissbier
Batch: 2.13 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.041 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 18 IBU
Recipe Color: 3° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.010
Alcohol by Volume: 4.0%
Alcohol by Weight: 3.1%

Ingredients
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Mr. Beer BrewMax Pale - LME   0.55 lb, Extract, Extract
Mr. Beer/Coopers Bavarian Weissbier1.87 lb, Extract, Extract

Mr. Beer/Coopers Bavarian Weissbier1.00 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes


Notes
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Recipe Notes:
Actually used Mr. Beer BrewMax LME SoftPack - Golden but this does not exist in the Qbrew database.

Batch Notes:

Looks like another yeast party going on.  I'm liking this style of airlock since I cracked one of the S styled ones trying to install it.  Guess I don't know my own strength.  The design of this one prevents any back flow of water into the brew, and costing only $1.19 at the local home brew store, I see more of these in my future.

Update: 2013/04/20
Bottled this up today.  Got 21 bottles out of it.  The sample tasted a bit malty and a touch sweet.  Should be a very good beer once it conditions and carbonates.  Looking forward to this one.