Wedding Wheat II

My second hurry-up beer, it had to be ready for a wedding in less than a month from brew day to wedding day. It was a sucess.

Brewer:	Rathole		Email:	am1nightcreature@yahoo.com
URL:	http://hometown.aol.com/rathole2331/apology.html
Beer:	Wedding Wheat II		Style:	American Wheat
Type:	Extract w/grain		Size:	5 gallons
Color:	3 HCU (~3 SRM)		Bitterness:	14 IBU
OG:	1.040		FG:	1.010
Alcohol:	3.9% v/v (3.0% w/w)
Water:	Local well water
Grain:	1 lb. Raw wheat
Boil:	40 minutes	SG 1.040	5 gallons
	5.3 lb. Alexanders Wheat liquid malt extract
	Steep grains in grain bag, in about a gallon and a half of water for 30 minutes at 155° Add a 1.3 pound "kicker" of Alexanders Wheat LME and bittering hops. Boil for forty minutes. Add mixture to main brew pot with balance of five gallon boil. Add a four pound can of Alexanders wheat LME. Boil for remaining twenty minutes, adding irish moss for the last fifteen, and aroma hops in last ten minutes. Add the zest of one lemon and juice of two lemons last two minutes. Flame out, chill wort.
Hops:	.5 oz. Saaz (5% AA, 40 min.) 1 oz. Saaz (5% AA, 10 min.)
Yeast:	Danstar "nottingham" dry yeast
Log:	4/29/2007 Brewed, OG 1.040 5/7/2007 Transferred to secondary 5/24/2007 Kegged and force carbonated 30 PSI at 65° At tasting, it didn't have the lemon flavor level I wanted, so I added the juice of two more lemons.
Tasting:	Clean, crisp, well liked. I thought (and only one other person commented) that it had a bit too much citric lemon tang and flavor. I would cut down to one lemon at kegging time. Of course, I saw at least one other person adding lemon slices to it, so to each his own. I wanted to make a simple beer, with a little character, that would be ready soon. I didn't want too high an alcohol level, so people could enjoy several without getting too tanked. It was a warm day, so I wanted it to be crisp, clean, easy drinking. I used the neutral Nottingham yeast so it would not offend anyone by having too much character. I seem to have suceeded, as both this keg and its companion keg of Blonde ale were empty at the end of the reception.

Recipe posted 05/27/07.