Saturday, January 9, 2010

Brewing a Dunkelweizen - Part 2



This is the final report for the batch brewed on Dec 19th.
Now bottled for just over a week, this beer already taste great. Above, a photo of the final beer, nice color and good head. Banana notes very perceptible.
Here are the final numbers.:

OG: 1.044

FG: 1.009

ABV%: 4.5

Color: 16

IBU: 14


Mashed for 60min at 155ºF and fermented at 62ºF for 12 days. Bottled and primed with 1 cup of corn sugar in 2 cups of water, boiled for 15min and cooled to room temperature before adding to the beer. Used 1 smack pack of Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen.

Here is the fermentation profile:

Click HERE for the recipe.

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