Lemongrass Hefeweizen Recipe Tweaks

[golfgod04]

So last year around this time I brewed a Lemongrass Hefeweizen. I need some help in tweaking the recipe. I submitted this competitions and always did well. Ive finished 3rd place in the Spice/Herb category several times and finished a few times in 2nd but never first. So I am wondering if anyone has any advice on the recipe or yeast. I did this as a partial mash. Now I need to convert it to all grain and need help in doing that.

Steeping Grain:
1lb Carahell
10oz Honey Malt
Extract
4lbs DME Wheat
1lb DME Pilsen

Yeast - Danstar Munich Wheat Beer Dry Yeast
Lemongrass - 2 ounces in the last 10 minutes in boil and then 2 ounces "dry hop" in secondary for 5 days

I need help converting this to all-grain and tweaking it to see what I can improve. I never received any negative remarks or tweaks from judges.

 

[saltymirv]

Converted to all grain is:

4.5lbs Wheat Malt
3.5lbs Pilsener
1lb Carahell
10oz Honey Malt

As far as the recipe, it looks like it would be way too sweet. 10oz of honey malt on its own looks sweet, the pound of carahell seems like it would be over the top. If it was me, I'd cut the total crystal malt to 1/2lb, maybe 3/4lb if I was feeling generous. But everyone has different tastes and if you like it then keep it.

For the yeast, I haven't used that one. I've only used WLP300 and WLP380. Both were fantastic. I found the 300 to be banana-ey and the 380 to be more spicey/phenolic

 

[golfgod04]

Thanks for the info, when I tried to convert it in beersmith, I forgot to switch to all grain from partial.

I think I'll try 380 yeast. It didn't end up coming too sweet to me but Im guessing going all grain it would. I'll probably do 8 ounces carahell, 4 ounces of honey.