The sky’s the limit when it comes to hopping an American wheat beer. Although the style calls for some more hop forwardness, the upper IBU limit is just barely when American pale ales begin. A good range to fall under would be between 20-30 IBUs.
One of the first American Wheat beers of modern times was brewed by Anchor Brewing and known as Anchor Summer® Wheat, it introduced the country to the clean, crisp flavors of a filtered wheat beer. At this point, you might be wondering what the difference is between a German wheat beer and an American Wheat beer?
Unlike most commercially available low-carb beers, these recipes are full of flavor but still short on unwanted carbohydrates. All of this is made possible by our little drug store enzyme hero, “Beano”. With low-carb diets, all the rage right now, isn’t great to know you could still work your homebrew into them?
It’s time to brew a wheat beer. And unlike it’s German counterpart, which has esters of banana clove an American wheat beer is bready, grainy, and a little bit hoppy. Let’s brew one! Hi, I’m Martin Keen.