Wheat Wine

Wheat Wine is an American Ale beer style. It typically presents as gold to black. Bread, wheat, honey and/or caramel malt aromas and flavors are often present. High residual malt sweetness should be present. Low to medium.

Notes: This style is brewed with at least 50% wheat malt.

ABV: 8.5%-12.2%
IBU: 45-85
COLOR / SRM SCALE: 5+
OG: 1.088-1.120
FG: 1.024-1.032

Alcohol & Bitterness

ABV:8.5%-12.2%

ABW:6.7%-9.6%

IBU:45-85

Perceived Bitterness:

Medium to medium-high

Color & Appearance

Color:

Gold to black

SRM:5+

EBC:10+

Clarity:

Chill haze is acceptable at low temperatures

Gravity & Body

Original Gravity:1.088-1.120

Original Gravity °P:21.1-28

Final Gravity:1.024-1.032

Final Gravity °P:6.1-8

Body:

Full

Flavor Profiles

Malt Profile:

Bread, wheat, honey and/or caramel malt aromas and flavors are often present. High residual malt sweetness should be present.

Hop Profile:

Low to medium

Fermentation Character:

Fruity esters are often high and balanced by a complexity of alcohols and high alcohol content. Diacetyl is usually absent in these beers but may be present at very low levels. Phenolic yeast character, sulfur, and/or DMS should not be present. Oxidized, stale and aged attributes are not typical of this style.

Style info provided entirely or in part by the Brewers Association beer style guidelines.

No beers have been reviewed in this style.