Summer Wheat

This is an attempt to make a little more robust, less fruity flavored wheat beer by bumping up the OG a bit and using a CA ale yeast. The hops should be at the high end of the scale for a wheat as well to balance out the additional wheat maltiness.

Brewer:	Doug Kraus		Email:	doug.kraus@mac.com
Beer:	Summer Wheat		Style:	American Wheat
Type:	Extract w/grain		Size:	5 gallons
Color:	4 HCU (~4 SRM)		Bitterness:	19 IBU
OG:	1.054		FG:	1.017
Alcohol:	4.8% v/v (3.8% w/w)
Water:	Using city tap water and adding 1 tsp calcium carbonate. I did not leave this out overnight as I usually do. I used 4 gal in the brew kettle, another gal for mash and another gal for sparge.
Grain:	8 oz. Dextrine malt (Cara-Pils) 8 oz. Flaked wheat
Steep:	I put the grains in a grain bag and into a pot of 1 gallon of water. i bring this to 150 along with the pot of sparge water then into an oven to keep them at about 150 for an hour. I put grain bag into a collander and dump steep water into main kettle and slowly pour sparge water over grains.
Boil:	60 minutes	SG 1.054	5 gallons
	1 lb. Light malt extract 6 lb. Wheat extract
	Irish Moss added at 15 minutes (45 minutes into boil).
Hops:	.5 oz. Tettnanger (4.4% AA, 60 min.) .5 oz. Tettnanger (4.4% AA, 45 min.) .5 oz. Hallertauer (3.9% AA, 15 min.) .5 oz. Hallertauer (aroma)
Yeast:	White Labs WLP051 California Ale Yeast
Log:	Brewed on the 4th of July. Pitched yeast at 77 degrees. Basement is cooler than I thought and this fermented at 62 degrees. Transferred to secondary on 7/18 and the gravity is now down to 1.017-1.018. I am hoping to get it down to 1.016, but we'll see in a week.
Carbonation:	I will keg to 5 gallon soda keg and carbonate with CO2.
Tasting:	TBD. I will revise once it is ready to drink.

Recipe posted 07/22/09.