8th Brew - Cherry Wheat

Brew:	Cherry Wheat
Date:	7/15/2007
Weather:	Sunny, 75°-85°
Recipe:	PDF \| BTP
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Notes:	Used White Labs Bavarian Weizen Yeast WL351 Hose water at 73° therefore beer was not chilled well. Finished @ 82° Pitched next morning when beer was at 76° Gravity reading taken 11 hrs after pitch, temp at 75°

Statistics

Original Gravity:	1.063 approximation. 1.060, recorded 11 hrs after pitching.
Efficiency:
Final Gravity:	1.010
Attenuation:	84.13%
Alcohol By Volume:	6.96%

Time	Description
08:27 am	Starting filling the HLT
08:30 am	Began heating HLT
08:45 am	Initial PH @ 8.17. Added 5 dropper of lactic acid
	PH 4.60. Dumped 3.5 gallons and refilled.
	PH 5.47. Added 1 tblsp Buffer 5.2
	PH 5.60. Added 1.5 droppers of lactic acid
09:00 am	Finished heating to 130° for protein rest at 122°
09:07 am	PH 5.15, good enough
09:10 am	Dough-in, by myself
09:15 am	Finished dough-ing in
09:23 am	Started recirculating
	Began protein rest
09:53 am	Protein rest finished
10:06 am	First decoction started boiling
10:21 am	First decoction complete
10:40 am	Saaccrification Rest
11:40 am	Saaccrification Rest complete
11:52 am	Second decoction started boiling
12:07 pm	Second decoction complete
12:17 pm	Mash out started
01:19 pm	Sparge ended, boil started
	Runnings @ 1.004, a little low
01:43 pm	Boil started.
	First hop addition added, 1.5 oz Saaz
02:13 pm	Second hop addition added, 1.5 oz Saaz
02:43 pm	Boil complete

Date	Time	Description
07/15/2007	04:30 pm	Fermentor placed in laundry room. Temperature @ 82° w/ NO YEAST
		Taped cold packs to cone to help drop temperature
07/15/2007	10:00 pm	At 79°
07/16/2007	08:00 am	At 76°, Pitched starter, oxygenated. Added yeast energizer
	07:00 pm	At 75°. Bubbles once a second, gravity at 1.060.
		Tables very sweet with wheat overtones.
07/22/2007	07:12 pm	Gravity Reading: 1.016, wheat taste with slightly off after taste. Bubbling every 5 seconds
		Added 5 cups of cherry juice. Will adjust if not enough cherry after a couple of days
07/29/2007	12:30 pm	Gravity Reading: 1.010.
08/11/2007	06:00 pm	Kegged. Gravity reading the same.