My buddy Kevin wanted to brew a Dunkelweizen. Having never brewed one I looked it up on BJCP style guideline website and made one up (It's under the German Wheat beer category).
Here is what I came up with for a 10 gallon batch:
10 # Wheat Malt
10# Munich Malt
3/4# Special B
3/4# Carafa II
Since the wheat content is high you're going to want to add about a pound of rice hulls (wheat malt has no husk on the grain. This becomes a problem when you're draining out your mash tun and the husks aren't there to help filter....which could possibly lead to a stuck sparge. Rice hulls are cheap insurance)
1 oz. Hallertauer @ 60 minutes
1 oz. Hallertauer @ 30 minutes
I chose to finish it off with White Labs WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale yeast. I like the banana and clove that comes from this strain
Lets get started!
First gotta get it all set up:
Adding water.....I use a whole house filter now to supply all my brewing water
Flame is on.....and heating up the mash water (Notice the baby monitor next to the mash tun. I can multi task!!)
Getting close to add the grains in......
Grains are in! Now we let this sit for about an hour and try to keep our temperature steady around 152F
Ok.....hour is up and we're draining! Looking good so far.....
Here's whats left of the spent grain
Boil is going and the first hop additions are in:
I think it's time to relax and have a homebrew! Here's my IIPA I made a few weeks back
Alright....beer is gone....time to set up the chiller. I am able to chill my wort down to yeast pitching temps in no time with my counterflow chiller.
Filling up the carboy
Here's her home for the next week or so......Don't worry she will have company. That is only half the batch right there.
So at 70% efficiency I was right on all day long.
I collected about 11 gallons of wort and my Original gravity was 1.053. Now it's time for the yeast to get to work!
