May? Really?

Been over a week since I have been brewing or doing much of anything to get Payette Brewing going, so might want to get back at it. Not really much sun for today's brew, but I can handle it. Here is some details on what I have going today.

American Wheat
Malt: Wheat, American 2-Row, Crystal, Flaked Wheat
Hops: Columbus, Perle
ABV: ~4.5%
Playlist: New Ben Harper Album with a bit of Randy Rogers mixed in (live at Billy Bob's of course)

This is my standard Wheat Beer recipe I have been making for a while, the grain bill at least, and have been constantly changing up the hops and yeast. This time I am not really sure what to expect, I am using a combination of American hops and German hops then tossing in the English Ale yeast that I have going from the last few beers. I am expecting something much more along the lines of a pale ale than a wheat, but with 50% wheat I should be getting a good does of wheat character. Don't really know until you try right?

It doesn't look like I have a post for the first Amber I made, but there is one on the second one I still have fermenting. The first one is on tap these days, though likely gone after tonight. It is a malt focus beer with little to no hop aroma. I enjoyed it, but feel that it could use some biscuit malt or something to give it a little more bready taste to it. The Vienna and Munich malts give it a sort of lager characteristic that makes it a very smooth beer, but I just think it lacks some bit of complexity to it. I have another one in the pipeline and will be able to do some side by side comparisons to see how my changes affect the beer.

Next week I know that I am going to have plenty of things to post since I will be in Boise and have some meetings lined up, I just don't know when I will get around to putting that stuff up. As real as all this planning has seemed, I feel like it is going to another level of reality next week when I sit down with the marketing and real estate folks.