American wheat mashing

[Vvv]

Hey guyz, im trying some tunning of my american wheat recipe to be close on BJCP style.
# Im doing protein rest at first but still not sure about it. Do i need it?
# What can i do better to get big, long lasting white head?

My mashing looks like this:
Wheat/pils/vienna
51'C/124F 10 min
67'C/152F 60 min
78'C/172F 5 min

 

[Dextersmom]

is your wheat malted or unmalted?

 

[Vvv]

is your wheat malted or unmalted?

Malted

 

[Dextersmom]

I probably wouldn't do a protein rest. I'd toss some rice hulls in.

 

[Dextersmom]

although this is all very vague...what is your grain / water ratio and what are your malt %'s

 

[Vvv]

although this is all very vague...what is your grain / water ratio and what are your malt %'s

I use 3:1 almost always. Rice hulls too, although week ago when i done this beer, even using ~150g rice hulls i got stuck nasty on filtration :S

Pilsner 2 row 50%
Wheat malt 44,4%
Vienna 5.4%

 

[Dextersmom]

what is your grist like? I did one last week with a similar amount of wheat, a half # of rice hulls and sparged beautifully.
are you batch or fly sparging?
what type of false bottom are you rocking?

 

[Vvv]

Wheat malt what i bought is i guess medium grind, a little bit of 'flour' in the bag. Fly sparge for life
Filtration in my bucket is done by stainless steel braided water connector without a false bottom (YET! Im plannig to use false bottom + this metal hose)

I dont know why it got stuck, i used batch sparge like method with those problems that day :<

 

[Dextersmom]

wait that last sentence got me a lil crosseyed...are you saying when you batch sparged you never had that problem?
if you're using a bazooka screen that might make sense as to why you're getting a stuck sparge....do you vorlauf?

 

[Vvv]

Yea i vorlauf, i mean with those filtration stuck it was more batch than fly sparging (i use only fly sparge and 90% it goes well). Two times i was needed to stir whole thing, after 5 minutes and something like on half to end.

 

[Dextersmom]

it would be good to see a visual example of your grist. usually the LHBS don't grind too fine to help prevent stuck sparges. and given the remainder of your grain bill, you should have plenty of hulls to act as a filter bed.