Dunkelweizen Recipe

Reviving this thread because I’m going to brew a slightly different dunkelweizen this weekend.  I’m going to do a single rest at 155 and then do a thin decoct to hit mashout temp.  Look good?

Bavarian Dunkelweizen
15-B Dunkelweizen
Author: Matt Schwandt

Size: 5.26 gal
Efficiency: 85.0%
Attenuation: 77.0%
Calories: 171.52 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.052 (1.044 - 1.056)
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 (1.010 - 1.014)
Color: 16.87 (14.0 - 23.0)
Alcohol: 5.22% (4.3% - 5.6%)
Bitterness: 13.5 (10.0 - 18.0)

Ingredients:
5.5 lb Wheat Malt Dark
2 lb Dark Munich
1 lb Pilsen Malt
.50 lb Carawheat®
.25 lb Chocolate Wheat Malt
1 oz Hallertau Mittelfruh (3.4%) - added during boil, boiled 60 m
1 L White Labs WLP380 Hefeweizen IV Ale

Notes
Note: double crush wheat (dark wheat, carawheat, and chocolate wheat)

Single infusion + decoction batch sparge:

  • 1.4g Ca(OH)2 added to mash ==> pH 5.4; 2 handfuls rice hulls added to mash

  • 18 qts @ 164 (65 degree grain) ==> Saccharafication @ 155 [60 min]

  • Pull thin 4-qt decoction + 2.5 qts H2O ==> 212 [20 min]

  • Remix thin decoction ==> Mashout @ 168 [10 min]

  • 14.5 qts* Sparge H2O @ 185 ==> Sparge @ 170 [10 min]

  • 1g CaCl added to kettle

  • Target water profile: 68 Ca, 6 Mg, 16 Na, 51 Cl, 27 SO4

  • Ferment between 64-66

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