Uberon (Oberon Clone)

I actually received this recipe from a friend of a friend. I like Oberon so I thought I would give this a try.
I shopped for malts and ended up with United Canadian Pale and Wheat which is actually a blend. Actual quantities used were 6 lbs of the wheat blend and 3 lbs of the pale.

Brewer:	Todd Miller		Email:	todd_miller75@hotmail.com
Beer:	Uberon (Oberon Clone)		Style:	American Wheat
Type:	Extract w/grain		Size:	5 gallons
Color:	11 HCU (~8 SRM)		Bitterness:	12 IBU
OG:	1.069		FG:	1.015
Alcohol:	6.9% v/v (5.4% w/w)
Water:	Got bottled water from the grocery store. They have a Culligan machine where a 3 gallon refill costs 87 cents, so it's quite economical for brew water.
Grain:	0.25 lb. Dextrine malt (Cara-Pils) 0.5 lb. Belgian CaraVienne
Steep:	Put into pot with 2 ½ Qts. Water (no grain bag): ¼ lb. Breiss Dextrin Malt * ½ lb. DeWolf Caravienne Malt * Raise temp to 150° and hold for 10 minutes. Raise temp to 158° and hold for another 10 minutes. *These grains didn't really need to be mashed, but I wanted to test out the process. When done steeping, I just poured the mix through a strainer into the brewpot and sparged the grain with hot water from yet another pot. Seemed to work great...this is how I will be steeping from now on.
Boil:	60 minutes	SG 1.172	2 gallons
	6 lb. Light malt extract 3 lb. Wheat extract
	Dissolve 6 lbs. United Canadian Wheat and 3 lbs. United Canadian Pale malt extracts. Bring to a boil after adding more water. For hops I found a 2 oz bag of the Hallertauer full leaf so I thought I would try that. The rest of the hops were pellet.
Hops:	1 oz. Hallertauer - pellets (2.1% AA, 60 min.) 1 oz. Hallertauer - full leaf (4.5% AA, 60 min.) 0.5 oz. Hallertauer - full leaf (4.5% AA, 30 min.) 0.5 oz. Hallertauer - full leaf (4.5% AA, 20 min.) 0.5 oz. Czech Saaz - pellets (3.5% AA, 10 min.) 0.5 oz. Czech Saaz - pellets (aroma)
Yeast:	wyeast #1056 - no starter. Captured yeast from secondary for later use.
Log:	Notice a large amount of sludge at bottom of fementor and settling out of wort. This would be a good candidate for racking to a secondary in a few days, but I’ll be out of town this week. Racked to secondary after about 8 or 9 days. Left in secondary about a week, then bottled. I don't have a hygrometer, so BG and FG are bogus default values, as are the values derived. The color is a little darker than that shown by the SRM indicator.
Carbonation:	Wanted a little more foam, so I used about 7/8 cup of corn sugar, boiled with some water and added to the beer in the bottling bucket.
Tasting:	Great stuff after 1 1/2 weeks in the bottle! I don't have a bottle of Oberon as it is the off-season for that, but from memory, this recipe is real close. www.bellsbeer.com

Recipe posted 04/07/02.