Super fast Hefe Fermentation

[Master]

On Thursday, 8/17, I made a Hefe. Missed my OG target a tad 1.045 vs 1.049, but had a touch more volume (should have boiled a tad harder or sparged less)

6lb Wheat
4lb Pilsner
.5lb Rice Hulls

HERMS System
90 min mash @152, 168 Mashout
Fly Sparge to 8.25g
6.25g to Fermenter (SS Chronical 14g)

Here is the Time/Gravity Readings.
17 AUG 1600 1.045
18 AUG 1930 1.036
20 AUG 2000 1.014

Temp has been rock solid at 62F +/- 0.5 degrees. Airlock is still bubbling pretty good. Crazy thick head when I pull samples out of the sample port.

Smells OK. Hazy as all hell (as it should be)

Yeast was WLP 300, made a 1.5 L Starter. Per package date and BeerSmith, I should have had 284.5 Billion cells.
1.036 Starter with Extra Pale DME.

Don't have a lot of Wheat experience, and I knew WLP300 is kind of a beast, as is the similar Wyeast but DAMN this cranked out fast.

 

[triethylborane]

I intentionally under pitch my hefes and I use WLP300 and 380, both are strong/fast fermenters, so my guess is the 1.5 starter really made yours go bananas (and clove), 62f ferm temp is perfect in my experience. Great balance.

 

[jzamora3]

Sounds about normal for me. I use Wyeast 3638 and my final gravity is usually reached in a matter of days. But I ferment warm at 70f

 

[Die_Beerery]

I normally see about 36hrs on my hefe fermentations. They rip though pretty darn fast.