# Dunkelweizen Recipe

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**Category:** Beer Recipes\
**Created:** [September 3, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.homebrewersassociation.org/t/dunkelweizen-recipe/7697 "2011-09-03T12:53:32Z")\
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Reviving this thread because I’m going to brew a slightly different dunkelweizen this weekend.&nbsp; I’m going to do a single rest at 155 and then do a thin decoct to hit mashout temp.&nbsp; Look good?

Bavarian Dunkelweizen  
15-B Dunkelweizen  
Author: Matt Schwandt

Size: 5.26&nbsp;gal  
Efficiency: 85.0%  
Attenuation: 77.0%  
Calories: 171.52&nbsp;kcal per 12.0&nbsp;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&nbsp;lb Wheat Malt Dark  
2&nbsp;lb Dark Munich  
1&nbsp;lb Pilsen Malt  
.50&nbsp;lb Carawheat®  
.25&nbsp;lb Chocolate Wheat Malt  
1&nbsp;oz Hallertau Mittelfruh (3.4%) - added during boil, boiled 60&nbsp;m  
1&nbsp;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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