whiskeyjack
Well-Known Member
Wow. Just picked up a bottle of Franziskaner Dunkel at my local grocery store and at first I thought they had just changed the label on it because the hefe's are normally gold/yellow. This one was red. Then I noticed it was a dunkel and picked it up, because of Deathbrewer and his awesome writeup that Ive recently discovered I normally don't do dark beers so I thought I would give it a shot...it is amazing. I'll tell you how good the smell was lol. I was messing with my fermenting chamber after I had poured the dunkel and set it on the counter. I kept smelling something awesome and thought it was coming from my fermenter, then realized it was coming from the dunkel I just poured about 5 feet away, not even kidding. Could drink this dunkel all day. I will be brewing your Dunkelweizen very soon Deathbrewer
@thedude00 I don't know how to quote so to answer your question, the 5 gallon batch I have in my fermenter is a Bavarian Hefeweizen from AHS, their mini mash kits are pretty good, yes you can partial mash just like deathbrewer does with one of those. The only problem I find with the kits from AHS is they contain about 4 lbs of dme and 3-3.5 lbs of grain. I like to get as close as I can to as much grains as my system will hold, which is about 5-6 lbs. I also like to get as little extract as possible. So I usually tweek recipes to make it fit my system, but if this is your first venture into partial mashing then by all means the recipes from AHS are great and you will not be disappointed.
@thedude00 I don't know how to quote so to answer your question, the 5 gallon batch I have in my fermenter is a Bavarian Hefeweizen from AHS, their mini mash kits are pretty good, yes you can partial mash just like deathbrewer does with one of those. The only problem I find with the kits from AHS is they contain about 4 lbs of dme and 3-3.5 lbs of grain. I like to get as close as I can to as much grains as my system will hold, which is about 5-6 lbs. I also like to get as little extract as possible. So I usually tweek recipes to make it fit my system, but if this is your first venture into partial mashing then by all means the recipes from AHS are great and you will not be disappointed.