5 gallon will boil off during 60 minutes) 5 oz (He said wait until the hot break occurs, then add hops into rolling boil for the remainder of the boil)ģ Gallons of water (said approximately. Yeast: White Labs WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale Yeast (he said to pitch entire tube, no need for starter) He said many have tried using actual grapefruits, but usual ended with a not so loveable batch of beer.Īccording to him, ingredients for the 2.5 gallon wort are as follows: At first I thought he was joking, but he said it will be the closest thing you will get to cloning the original by using the soda. Since I haven't seen an actual recipe here or anywhere else on the net for extract or that uses grapefruit flavors, I will share what I have been given.Īccording to the brew shop owner, if you want to make a 5 gallon batch, you need to only prepare a 2.5 gallon wort, as the rest of the 2.5 gallons is grapefruit soda found at local ethnic stores (spanish markets have it around here). The wife and I took another trip yesterday and talked with him. I was a tad bit inebriated, so I told him I would come by his shop again later in the week to take him up on offering his recipe. When I told him that I am a beginning home brewer and that my wife really liked the beer, he said he had a recipe for me. It was only by chance that while we were at the restaraunt, I met the owner of the brew store who also works at the restaurant. Hopefully this will open her eyes that not all beer is the same and there are probably hundreds more she would like as well. Luckily she is excited to help me try and brew a clone batch of this beer. However, when I tried my first one I really liked it, so last weekend when we returned to the restaurant for dinner and drinking, I had her try one and she loved it. Beer days, but she does not like beer (I know, I know). I have been trying to get my wife into this hobby since my Mr. Well until about a month ago, I had never heard of Schofferhofer and just recently tried one of their grapefruit weizens at a buddy's house. Even better than that, right next to the deli is the Sanford Home Brew store, which is one of the nicest and most stocked stores I have visted thus far. The Willow Tree has a main restaurant and then right around the corner is their german bakery and deli. mainly for the entertainment, 3L boots and numerous German beers on tap. There I found one of the best German restaurants that I have even been to in the U.S. Here's the scoop on how and what I got.I live about 45 minutes away from Sanford, Florida (home of the famous Trevon Martin). I did find one on beersmith's website but it is all grain and I did not see any type of grapefruit ingredient. I have searched high and low and have not been able to find a good solid recipe to clone Schofferhofer's Grapefruit Hefeweizen beer.
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