Levers101

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I'm brewing Dude's Boulevard Wheat clone this weekend. My only question is:

When, in everyone's experience, is the best time to bottle a wheat? Should I do it straight from my primary vessel after I'm sure all attenuation is done? Or should I do a short secondary? I definitely want the characteristic wheat yeast in my beer, which was a problem in my first wheat because I had it in secondary too long (2 weeks) and everything settled out. Thanks!

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Bottled/Drinking #12: 6 Hop Variety American Pale Ale
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Bottled/Drinking #14: Bavarian Wheat
Bottled/Drinking #15: Iron Red Ale

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BarleyWater

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I'm wondering that myself. Been fermenting my weiste..., wiehesteph..., (whatever the hell it's called) hefewiesen for 16 days now and it's bubbling about once every 1.5 - 2 minutes.

From what I've been told, just a primary should be fine for a wheat, so that's what I've been doing. Besides, just a few weeks shouldn't be long enough to cause any off flavors.

Anyway, feels like mine's getting close, and I don't want it to settle out too much so I can have those tasty yeasties (sounds kinda wierd to say tasty yeasties), but I also don't want to bottle too early.

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On Tap:Cran Wit, Dr Pepper Dubbel, Cascadian Pale Ale, Dark Chocolate Stout, Imperial Stout, Brown Mild, Schwarzbier
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BarleyWater

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Also been using my secondary(carboy) as my primary(single-dary?). I prefer the glass to the plastic, and I get to watch everything that's going on, some pretty cool stuff in there.

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Fermenting: Nada
On Tap:Cran Wit, Dr Pepper Dubbel, Cascadian Pale Ale, Dark Chocolate Stout, Imperial Stout, Brown Mild, Schwarzbier
On Board: IIPA

www.franconiabrewing.com

homebrewer_99

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IMO, Hefe Weizens are the most simplest and enjoyable beers on the planet to brew and drink. I've been drinking them since Feb '75 (my first tour in Germany lasted 4 years) and brewing them since '94 (when I started HBing).

You can use a primary only if you want to try to maintain some of the cloudiness or rack to the secondary for more clarity.

The number of days in each is up to you. It's just so flexible.

Here's what's NOT flexible: You shouldn't bottle before it reaches its intended FG per the range of the amount of malt used and the attentuation of the yeast.

Too simple, huh?

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redpale

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first-ary, maybe?

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Bottled:
MISS WELL Blonde Ale
NO MARKS Scottish Wee Heavy
Primary:
BETTER THAN Raspberry Wheat
Secondary:
TRIPEL 20 Belgian Tripel
Next: ?

homebrewer_99

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Primary, secondary, tertiary...

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redpale

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yeah, I know: first-ary, second-ary and third-ary does sound a bit plebeian, huh?

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Bottled:
MISS WELL Blonde Ale
NO MARKS Scottish Wee Heavy
Primary:
BETTER THAN Raspberry Wheat
Secondary:
TRIPEL 20 Belgian Tripel
Next: ?

homebrewer_99

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...if you have to ask...

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redpale

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I think I've just severely threatened any chance of, or aspirations of, EAC status...sigh

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Sometimes fate smiles on even our most feeble efforts.

Bottled:
MISS WELL Blonde Ale
NO MARKS Scottish Wee Heavy
Primary:
BETTER THAN Raspberry Wheat
Secondary:
TRIPEL 20 Belgian Tripel
Next: ?

homebrewer_99

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I wouldn't worry much about it...sometimes those things are forgotten about in a really short time...something to do with killing brain cells or something like that...

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