Dunkelweizen

[wilted]

Right so my shocktop(thanks lord eoin) is bubbling away nicely so I think its time to start planning my next brew.
I love a good dunkel so I'm going to try hack a cooper wheat kit into a dunkel
Any suggestions/advice will be much appreciated
Here we go(go easy on me I'm still a newbie)

Coopers kit
1kg wheat DME
500g dark DME

Steep
115g black
115g caramel
200g carapils

Yeast wb06

Have at it experts of the kit brew

[irish_goat]

I'm not sure if that much black malt is going to be good for a dunkel. They don't tend to have that much roasty character. I'd drop it and use 200g carafa special along with the caramel and carapils.

http://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/roasted-caramalt-dehusked-carafa-special-3-germany-500g-p-613.html

[wilted]

Excellent I'll swap that out I had got chocolate in there and swapped it out for black.
Carafa special looks like it'll do the job nicely,thanks goat

[Richie71]

Well I'm just supping on the last of the Hefe from Lord Eoin's recipe (many thanks btw!!) and had the same idea as wilted.  My thoughts for a Dunkelweizen are (keeping it as simple as I can)...


Coopers Wheat Beer Kit
150g Carafa Special 1
1.5kg Coopers wheat LME
WB-06 yeast

Any update from your brew Wilted...how did it turn out?

[LordEoin]

Those recipes both look like they'll be the bees knees 
with wb06, underpitch for banana, overpitch for clove
22 for banana, 18C for clove
Play with it!

[wilted]

Sorry about the late reply Richie been without internet access for the last two months or so
The dunkel turned out great it benefits from a bit of extra bottle conditioning compared to a standard wheat beer, I'd give it 4 weeks or more(it was a bit odd after two weeks it tasted like the flavours hadn't combined properly yet but after four yummy and a bit too easy to drink). Think I may increase the caramel to 150g next time around but it turned out better than expected.

Eoin I brewed it at 21 degrees for about ten days then lowered it to about 17 for another five. Banana flavours seem to be just about right(to my untrained trap anyways)

[LordEoin]

Well... it's your 'untrained trap' that has to drink it, so if it tastes good to you then it's perfect

[Richie71]

That's great to hear Wilted.  Mine is only in the bottle a week now so should be good to go Christmas week.  I ended up using the Muntons Connoisseur Wheat Beer instead of the Coopers.  Never tried that one before so fingers crossed.

[wilted]

Too true eoin
Never tried muntons so let me know how you get on Richie