Day 9: Dunkelweizen

When I came in to open the store this morning the American IPA was rockin'. I moved it to the back of the store, but when I came back up front and looked where it had been sitting, everything above it and around it had been covered in beer. Oops. Got a bit active and exploded. Airlock and stopper were still in place, must have just been spraying out of the top of the airlock. It's hard for me to imagine a 1 gallon carboy shooting beer 12 feet in the air with some force, but it definitely happened. I've got a bit of clean up ahead of me...(note from Lucia: fiance took pity on the beer explosion and wiped everything down...next beer will be named after her).

On to the beer...

Beer #9 - Midnight Weizen

Style: Dunkelweizen (15B)

Recipe: For 1 Gallon (Extract)

1.2 lb Muntons Wheat Dry Malt Extract
2 oz Munich Malt (steeped at 152F for 20 minutes)
1 oz CaraAroma Malt (steeped at 152F for 20 minutes)
1 oz Chocolate Malt (steeped at 152F for 20 minutes)
.25 oz Hallertau Hops (4.5%) (30 minutes, full boil)
Danstar Munich Dry Ale Yeast

Beer notes: Grains ended up being steeped between 152-170 for about 40 minutes. Boil went for about 40 minutes as well. Shouldn't effect the beer too much. Nothing out of the ordinary with this beer except that I decided to use some Weyermann CaraAroma barley, which some people might not be familiar with. It's a very malty caramel flavored grain, that adds a touch of dark amber color and some mouth feel. I like it, and feel it could be used in numerous beers; porters and dark weiss beers especially. Didn't get a good specific gravity reading again, but this should be around 1.058.

Cheers!
Aaron