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No, malted wheat for a hefeweizen. Raw wheat for wit beers.

They can get clear. I've certainly had them clear up when I was bottling. If you crash chilled it for a bit, that'll probably be the reason it's clear. After all, that's the main reason for crash chilling, to get particles especially yeast to settle out.
 
You can't use raw wheat if you're brewing in Germany, with the reinheitsgebot and all :p
 
+100 to Felten and Stuster. The cloudiness in a Hefeweizen should be primarily caused by yeast, and raw wheat is inappropriate (save that for Belgian Wits and Lambics). I've had the same experience as you when crash cooling the fermentor before transferring to the keg. My process now is to transfer without crashing.

Some commercial versions achieve reliable cloudiness by filtering the original yeast out and adding back a low flocculating lager yeast for bottle conditioning.

My other tip with Hefeweizen (especially with 3068) is to ferment between 16 and 17C for the initial phase, then let it gradually rise to 20C to finish off after high krausen. I am beginning to come to the conclusion that the typical hefeweizen flavours are driven more by fermentation than mash techniques. My first and many subsequent batches were triple decoctions, however recently I have been experimenting with single infusion with and without a small amount of Melanoidin malt. It hurts to admit that the additional 3 hours spent messing around with a complex decoction mash adds little or nothing to the final result (even using under modified floor malted Bohemian Pilsner malt for the decoction, and premium German Pilsner malt for the single infusion). My first batch with Melaniodin malt is 7 days into fermentation right now, and tasting very promising!
 
Just knocked out a hefe last week

Reckon it's spot on, kegged it 2 days before NYE and we had a pretty wicked NYE/NYD party

Keg got hit pretty hard (along with the others)

Did beta glucan rest, protein rest, alpha, beta and mashout

Initial ferment ran high because I hadn't plugged in the fridge right, then I squashed it to 18C

Used 3068

Don't cold crash hefeweizens :)

And don't bother minimizing yeast carry over
 

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