Lemon Pepper Belgian Wheat

Well so far my Belgian yeast series have been a wash. I can't seem to find time to brew and when it looks like I get the time something happens and I cant. So Saturday I have some spare time that I am setting aside and I will brew my once scratched Lemon Pepper Belgian Wheat beer. I will be using some WLP550 yeast to do this with and will be fermenting at a pretty warm temp to produce some nice esters. On to the recipe...

Lemon Pepper Belgian Wheat

Malt:
5 lbs: Cont. Pilsner
4.5 lbs: Flaked Wheat
1 lb: Munich Malt
.5 lbs: American Crystal 20L
.25 lbs: Special B

Hops:
1.25 oz: Glacier 7.4aa 60 min

Misc:
Whirlfloc @ 15min
Zest of 3 Lemons @ 0min
30 coarse cracked black peppercorns @ 0min
30 coarse cracked black peppercorns DH

Target OG: 1.064
Target FG: 1.011
IBU: ~34
Efficiency: 62%

Actual OG: 1.056
Actual FG: 1.010
Apparent Attenuation: 81.5%

ABV: 6.1%
ABW: 4.8%

Yeast:
White Labs Belgian Ale WLP550

Hopville Recipe

Update 11.14.2009: Brewday is over and despite hitting all my temps today, my efficiency was crap. Over all I think the beer turned out quite well. I had 3 very small lemons so I added all the zest from all 3 and at least once it was cooled, the beer had a nice citrus taste and aroma, with a subtle hint of pepper. The beer is already fermenting ~3 hours after I added my starter. So hopefully this will turn out good we will see in the next week.

Update 11.18.2009: Fermentation has all but subsided now. I am only seeing air lock action once every 20-30 seconds now. So I went ahead and threw in the 30 pepper corns for "dry hop". I started fermentation at 66 and slowly ramped it up to 74 since Saturday. Ill take a sample in a few days to see where it sits.

Update 11.19.2009: Took final gravity reading of 1.010. Beer tastes really good. Very heavy on the pepper but also the trademark Belgian smell of tuty fruity and some bannana. Should be an interesting beer once it gets carbed up.

Update 11.21.2009: Kegged up beer today. Forced carbing to try and shoot for 4 levels of co2.