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This is my first brewday for nearly 4 months!

It is for a mate's stag do and he is a big fan of Wiehenstephan so I thought I'd attempt a clone of it.
It has been aptly named 'WiehenStagJohn'. One of our mates is a graphic designer and he is making up some labels, hopefully I'll get a picture of them soon.

Liqour is heating up at the moment and I hope to get mashed in by 8.30am.

Ingredients.

FERMENTABLES.

Lager Malt - 3.45kg
Wheat Malt - 3.45kg

HOPS.

Hallertauer Hersbrucker - 55g added at 60 mins

YEAST.

WLP300 from a 1.5l starter

Mash - 60mins @ 66c
Boil - 60mmins
Est SG - 1.054
Est FG - 1.013
Est ABV - 5.4%
Est IBU - 14.1
Est EBC - 7.3

Its certainly the Hefe-season lately

Too right it is!

Although I've had a bit of a 'mare with this one.....

one element wasn't enough to keep a rolling boil so I had to keep topping up to keep the 2nd element covered. Obviously this was going to water it down, luckily I had 200g of extra-light DME spare from the yeast starter. This appears to have brought the SG back upto somewhere decent enough.

Bugger.

Bugger, last couple of my brews have been a bit short on Gravity and too much volume in the FV which I think is to do with the windy weather blowing my burner about so not getting as good a boil as I normally get, either that or I've screwed a setting up when doing sparge calculations on my phone App or BeerEngine setting.

As long as I get drinkable beer at the end of it, I'm happy. Plus, it has given me the brewing bug again.

The smell from the FV fridge has been nothing short of foul. I've taken a gravity reading today and it has dropped to 1.026 in 48hrs. The aroma and flavour at the moment is more banana than clove.

I kegged and bottled this yesterday after gravity dropped to 1.016. It stayed around 1.022 for ages until I took a reading yesterday so I've adjusted the priming sugar incase there are fermentables still present in the wort.

I currently have the bottles in my fridge with the ATC set to 25c. Any ideas how long I should leave it like this?