Devils Backbone Brewing Company

This winter / spring will see two new wheat based beers here at Devils Backbone Brewing Company.  The first is already in the fermenter, a wheat based Keller Pilsner which should hit the taps late December / early January.  I'm not quite sure what the name will be, maybe Weizen Pils, or Trukker Wheat Pilsner.  The wheat pils has 45% of the grist made up of malted and un-malted wheat,  the rest is pilsner malt. It will be fermented with lager yeast like a traditional pils and will be naturally carbonated like all our beers.  Being a fan of hoppy pilsners I wanted to do something un-traditionally traditional.  What I mean is that I wanted to brew a beer that is not gimmicky but different.  Pilsners are great beers and wheat is a great ingredient so I combined them to see the outcome.   The beer is tasting terrific out of the tank and I'm sure it will be a new favorite of mine, Steve's, and Aaron's when it hits the taps. 

The next wheat beer hybrid will be a Wheat Stout, maybe named Ramsey's Wheat Stout. This beer will get over 50% of the grist coming from malted wheat with all the color and malt flavor coming from dark wheat malts.  I am going to use Weyermann Malting Company's dark wheat, caramel wheat, and chocolate wheat malt, in this brew along with pale malt.  I think this brew should capture some of the softness of wheat with rich dark malt flavors.  I will brew this late winter for an early spring release. 

Wheat is a great ingredient and we have done several other wheat beers here at DBBC, albeit slightly more traditional examples like the award winning Wintergreen Weiss a Bavarian-style Hefeweizen (available year round), our Summer Haze a Anglo-American Summer Wheat Ale (summer time), our Belgian Wit a Belgian-style White Ale(spring), and last years Advantageous Weizenbock a German-style Weizenbock(still have one keg saved for a special occasion). 

I can hardly wheat, I mean wait.

Cheers,

Jason