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Ingredients · Fermentables · Raw Wheat

Fermentable

Raw Wheat — Generic

Generic

Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.

Maker
Generic
Origin
Various
Type
adjunct-grain
Malt class
wheat
Color
1.6 °L (3.0 EBC)
Extract, fine-grind dry basis
86.0 %
Moisture
11.0 %
Diastatic power
0 °Lintner
Suggested max
40 % of grist
Needs mashing
Yes

Description

Unmalted, unflaked wheat berries as used in witbier and lambic. The starch is not pre-gelatinised, so a cereal mash or a protein/beta-glucanase rest is worth the trouble; it repays it with intense haze, tart grain character and huge foam.