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From Zainasheff & Palmer, Brewing Classic Styles, pg 194. The ABV was way to high in BeerSmith so I nocked down the wheat malt by 14 oz and took a pound of the Pilsner. Backup yeast should be Wyeast 3638 Bavarian Wheat Packaging on the Munich II from Weyermann reads “German Dark Munich Malt”. I chose to the the Schneider Weisse Mash Schedule for lack of any better clear guidance I because I already have it set up. 2018-12-11: Created 1.8L starter. It’s a little thin as 1.6L was the target but I didn’t get as much boil-off as expected and didn’t bother to wait it out. 2018-12-12: Brewday. Used 8 oz of rice hulls today to try and head off the stuck mashes I frequently get with wheat. I needed a touch more water as a result in order to get a flow across the top of the mash from the auto-sparge. We still experienced a lot of trouble with sticking while running the RIMS based mash. I will need to increase the rice hulls from 8 oz to 12 oz or more next time I do a wheat. Pitched at 68°F with OG of 1.055. Captured 5G wort but starter volume brought it up to 5.5G. Nice bready tasting wort. I employed the heat belt (with timer set for 1/3 on) and set the ambient room temp up 2 degrees to 70°F. I want more banana and clove. 2018-12-13: 0800: 72°F. Good. 1300: 74°F, yeast blowing through airlock, and a big mess. Cleaned up, changed to blow-off, and removed belt. 1600: 72°F and yeast passing through blow-off. 2000: 70°F. 2018-12-14: Down to 68°F and returned to an “S” airlock. 2018-12-19: Temp on carboy was 68°F- and ambient temp was 70°F. Moved carboy up onto sink height in prep for racking to secondary. Floor is coller than higher surface and expect temp jump. 2018-12-20: Temp of carboy is 70°F+. Refractometer reads 7.6 for an SG of 1.014. Reasonable. Racking to 5G glass carboy. I will lower the ambient temp t 68°F but move the 5G carboy up onto the sink height platform expecting the temp to stay at 68°F. 2018-12-21: Temp stayed around 70°F- so I am going to lower the room temp to 66°F. I also had foam blow through the airlock so I removed and cleaned it, took a sample to lower the level, and got another SG reading (unchanged). 2018-12-22: Ambient temp is 66°F. Carboy temp is 68°F, and the carboy is still actively bubbling. 2019-01-13: Racking to Keg #9, the new Torpedo keg. Carboy temp is 67°F and quiet. Refractometer reads 1.030/7.56 which converts to an FG 0f 1.014. 2019-01-01: Long chilled and carbonated, we are tapping this keg today.