Brewing Notes, American Wheat (Thurs 22may)

Brewed an American Wheat from extract today.
The recipe was:

6.0 lbs Wheat LME (60 % wheat, 40% barley)
1 oz. Williamette hops (60 min)
1 oz. Cascade hops (15 min)

Boiled for 10 minutes prior to first hop addition. The wheat LME really produces a ton of hot and cold break, probably because of the high protein content of wheat. I skimmed off some of the hot break once it formed a large layer of foam.

***Note on boil: With an initial boil volume of ~ 3 gallons (including 1/2 gallon LME), ~ 3/4 gallon boiled off during the 70 minute boil. This was slightly less than the intended gallon to boil off. Maybe due to no 30 minutes of steeping grains with this one***

Pitched a 1 quart starter that was made 18 hours ago with wort at 66F.
***Note on starter !don't directly put hot jar of wort in ice bath, or it will crack and spill out! I had to repeat my starter process because I did this, was quite annoying and dumb on my part. I need to get a nice Pyrex piece for my starters. Time to break into a chem lab.***

Original gravity came out at ~1.038, likely due to the extra quart or so of liquid that I didn't get boiled off like intended. Oh well, pretty close.

Hopefully my intensive cleaning and attention to sanitization with this batch will prevent a reoccurence of the infection in my last batch.

Cooled for 25 minutes using two ice additions. No