brewed my version last week. it's been in the fermenter about 6 days.
Here's what I ended up with if anyone has any comments or suggestions for future reference:
6lbs DME wheat
.5lb DME extra light
1lb Vienna
heated 4 gallons of water to 160 degrees. Let Vienna steep 25 minutes (too busy talking to my neighbor that just got a home brew kit). boiled, added the Wheat DME (added the other DME around 30 minutes into the boil -not sure why, just seemed to be the right thing to do?) then followed the posted hops schedule:
0.25 Motueka Hops at 60 Minutes
0.25 Sorachi Ace 20 minutes
0.25 Motueka Hops 20 minutes
0.25 Sorachi Ace 7 Minutes
didn't add any lime zest.
made a 1.5liter starter with White Labs Hefeweizen IV Ale Yeast the night before. Cooled to 80 degrees, added water to bring OG to 1.055 (around 6 gallons total) and pitched the yeast.
fermentation was bubbly by the next morning, explosive by the next evening (good thing I used a blow off tube! By the way- how do you clean out the messy tube?). on the 3rd night, I added 1.75 liter bottle of simply raspberry lemonade. didn't get to check on it till after the weekend (another 2 days since adding lemonade). Didn't seem to be as much blowoff, but could have just settled down more. still bubby 5 or 6 days later...
plan to leave it in the fermenter for the 3 weeks, check gravity, then keg.
Any thoughts? I saw some references to recipes using LME but I had some DME around so did some basic conversions. I would have added a bit more water to bring the OG down a bit more but was getting pretty full in my fermenting bucket (need to go buy a 7.8gallon bucket!). didn't seem like that was a big difference (1.051target vs. 1.055 measured).
Anyway just thought I'd post what I did, and will post up some photos and review when I tap it.
thanks SD-SLIM for the recipe!!