A coworker of mine got 30lbs of wheat off his grandparent's farm and asked me to help him brew with it (he is primarily an extract/grain steeping homebrewer). Other than a small amount of torrified wheat in my IPA recipe I have yet to brew with wheat on my all grain setup. Can I treat this wheat as unmalted wheat and thus whip up a belgian wit or two? I had Hoegarden when I was touring the Netherlands a few years ago and enjoyed that better than my college days of sucking down Blue Moon.
My plan is to have my local HBS crack the wheat since I don't yet have a mill. A few questions:
1. How much unmalted wheat--by percentage--can I use in the mash? I am guessing a pilsner malt would make up the rest of the grain bill?
2. Any ideas of other beer styles which I can use unmalted wheat? How versatile is it?
3. Rice hulls?
Thanks brewing nation,
Jeremy