Recipe: Pear-Shaped Charlie Weisen

Recipe: Pear-Shaped Charlie Weisen

In keeping with our football themed beer concurrent with the University of Michigan season, for next week, we brewed a ‘Weis’-en in honor of the large mass of flesh and cholesterol that is the head coach of Notre Dame. This is our first beer to be put into secondary.

Specialty Grains:

• 8oz Oats

• 8oz Flaked Wheat

Boil:

• 60 Minutes

  • 2lbs Wheat Liquid Malt Extract

  • 1oz Hallertau

• 10 Minutes

  • 3lbs Wheat Liquid Malt Extract

Yeast

German Hefe Yeast

Fermentation

6 days in primary, then into another vessel with 14 oz of pureed pear for 5 days.