Even drinking this green is pretty good! Lol. 10 days in bottles and it is starting to taste pretty good.

So, I decided to try my first Black Rock kit and I liked the sound of Whispering Wheat. Fruity overtones etc. etc. sounded like a nice beer to kick off the summer. Well, despite the fact that it came with an underwhelming amount of yeast (who puts 5 grams for a 1.7 kg kit?, even Coopers puts 7grams.) I am pretty impressed with this brew. I added some extra Cooper's ale yeast I had to this to bring it up to about 10 grams of yeast and the result is a fairly smooth, very fizzy and quenching brew, but not overpowering either. Better than some other weak kits I have brewed in the "summer" category. I started with some Mr. Beer kits and was not overly impressed with them. The American Light Ale it comes with is a joke. Weak and metallic and just not really great. The second I brewed was the Aztec Mexican Cerveza from Mr. Beer and it was decent (as good as Corona) but still fairly weak. Then I found out that most of these lighter beers in cans are not that great sometimes. So I have since graduated to bigger brewing amounts, but I still employ the Mr. Beer Fermenter cause I like it and I still am liking the can kits (haven't graduated to brewing from scratch, yet) The next was a Cooper's IPA, which is a great brew and then I decided to try something non Cooper's and went with Black Rock Whispering Wheat and started using spray malt sugar instead of white (cane) table sugar. I used the "proper" malt for this, a medium wheat spray malt and I am rather impressed with the results. It has bite, but not too much and even though it is still a bit green, it is starting to get really smooth and has a "fairly" pleasant taste. Certainly not offensive in any way. One might even say it's bland, as some have said, but I think differently. It's not bland, but it does lack something. The only extra thing I added, was about a quarter to a third cup of real 100% Canadian, grade A Maple Syrup. I am kind of liking this beer actually as far as smoothness, light flavour and heavy head and carbonation. Very thirst quenching. It has enough kick for a lighter and more "summery" type beer, but maintains that nice light flavour. Is it bland on the wheat flavour? Yes, but it is still rather pleasent. Is it a bad beer? No. I've brewed MUCH worse beers, like that Mr Beer American Light Ale. Lol. 

Good Summer Brew

Looks like a wheat beer, tastes like a wheat beer and an ideal brew to put down over those hot summer days when the temp gets too high for other yeasts.  I've made it a few times and added different things and it has always turned out well.  I like to add some wheat spray malt and have always used Mangrove Jacks Bavarian Wheat yeast.

BR WW Hoegarden replica

Black Rock Whispering Wheat Hoegaarden clone

Weissbier Attempt

nz wheatbeer!!!!

Hoegaarden clone - not even close

whispering wheat

Could be better

Wheat? Who knows - who cares?

My 11th Brew

Black Rock Whispering Wheat

BR Whispering Wheat

Contents listed are barley and malted barley. Where is the wheat?