Quaker Maple Wheat

Steeping: I dunno, about a pound? of stale Quaker oats
Boil: 3 x 3lbs Munton's SprayME 55% Wheat/45% Barley (9EBC)
Add: 20 oz Top-Quality Kirkland Brand Maple Syrup
Yeast: Wyeast 3056 Bavarian liquid

41 mins boil with 1.5 oz of Wilamette 4.7% alpha (bittering)
13 mins no heat with .5 oz of the same Wilamette pellets
24 mins to chill and pitch

Got all the ingredients for the Xingu clone with this shipment … realized that this was going to be water, DME, hops, yeast. Too simple! Where's the complexity? So opted for the oats up front for a little mouth feel, and hopefully, just enough maple syrup to leave a hint of aftertaste.

Smacked the pack only before the boil time. Left the corney outside in the 80 degrees down to 70 degrees evening.

Day 2: Used the beer thief to check gravity, to my horror found it at .1090. Tossed in two and a half quarts of good ol' Bakersfield tap to bring it down to .1075.

Day 3: Fermentation is really active, lots of blow off. Took the corney up to the bathtub and half sunk it, wrapped it in a wet towel to wick, and set the thermostat to 72. I know, I have a beer fridge for this, but there's beer in it.

Days 6-13: Stopped fermentation and let the fridge chill everything down. After two days, found that gravity was still at .1030. So, out of the fridge and back into a fermentation mode for two more days.

Day 21: Figured all was well. Started racking the yeast off the bottom, and then pulled a gravity reading yesterday. And, it read .1033 (explain that shite!) so yanked it outta the fridge and warmed it up again, hoping for some fermentation for reals. What the heck??

Got ticked and dry hopped in a half oz of Hallertau (4.2%) pellets. Five days from now I'll put the can back into the fridge, and then rack ... or just serve out.

10 week update:
The idea behind adding in the maple was to add just a bit of snap. Razzlem'dam, it's overpowering. 20 ounces is too much, by far. The bite from it didn't condition out after 6 weeks like it seemed to have been doing up to that point. 10 oz would be too much. I'd go 5 ounces and work up from there, had I my time machine.